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The Handtoolworks
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200-year old carving gouge restoration | Making a traditional turned chisel handle with hand tools
In this video, I restore an antique carving gouge made in Sheffield, England about 200 years ago. I found this gouge with a broken handle wrapped in decades-old tape. I demonstrate how to make and fit a traditional tang chisel handle by hand (no lathe) using a template to guide the shaping and hand tools such as a hand plane, rasps, and files. I also show how to drill and ream a pilot hole for a perfectly centered handle. For the new handle, I used a salvaged piece of vintage Brazilian bulletwood, an extremely strong and dense exotic hardwood. This is one of nicest woods I've worked with and I can't wait to use it again in another project.
00:05 Unwrapping the old handle
00:37 Splitting bulletwood
01:48 Layout
02:23 Drilling the pilot hole
02:53 Planing the handle
04:32 Chopping the ferrule seat
05:10 Making the ferrule
05:52 Making the template
07:05 Shaping the handle
11:06 Fitting the tang
13:31 Grinding and sharpening
14:29 Finishing the handle
15:04 Carving dragon scales
00:05 Unwrapping the old handle
00:37 Splitting bulletwood
01:48 Layout
02:23 Drilling the pilot hole
02:53 Planing the handle
04:32 Chopping the ferrule seat
05:10 Making the ferrule
05:52 Making the template
07:05 Shaping the handle
11:06 Fitting the tang
13:31 Grinding and sharpening
14:29 Finishing the handle
15:04 Carving dragon scales
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Expansive bits are back! | Restoring, sharpening, and using vintage adjustable auger bits
Переглядів 19 тис.Рік тому
Expansive auger bits feature a adjustable cutter that allows them to bore custom sized holes using a brace. In this video, I restore a 120-year-old James Swan No. 7 expansive bit, demonstrate how to sharpen and how to bore large holes cleanly, and highlight the differences among commonly found models. Starting with Clark's patent in the mid 1800s, expansive bits became popular for woodworking a...
Restoring the froe | Sharpening and new bitternut hickory handle | Hand tool woodworking
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In this video, I restore an antique froe. This tool was forged by a blacksmith from wrought iron in the mid 1800s. Froes are used to precisely split green wood to make many items like shingles, planks, spoon carving blanks, tool handles, and chair parts. The traditional froe has a tapered eye that fits a hardwood handle, allowing the handle to be easily removed for transport. Unlike most edge t...
Making a clamping T-handle for vintage auger bits | Hand tool woodworking
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In the hand tool era, augers and gimlets frequently came with permanently attached T-handles for use mainly in carpentry and green woodwork. A few companies made special handles that could accept brace bits interchangeably (such as the Millers Falls No. 2 and No. 3 auger handles), but these are quite rare nowadays. I thought it would be fun to make a compact clamping handle out of oak to use wi...
Restoring a vintage Atkins No. 1 mitre box saw | Hand tool restoration
Переглядів 25 тис.2 роки тому
This huge 26-inch mitre box saw was made by E. C. Atkins of Indianapolis around 1911. Atkins was one of the top US saw makers of the hand tool era. The saw blade was made of thick, very high quality steel and the handle was made of apple wood. At some point in its history, the saw was left outside on the ground, exposed to the elements for perhaps several years, resulting in extensive rusting a...
Making an octagonal chisel handle from pear wood with hand tools | Chisel restoration
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In this video, I make a handle for a 19th-century mortise socket chisel starting with a pear tree branch. Pear is a beautiful, dense, extremely fine-textured fruit wood that is great for toolmaking. This Bradford pear branch fell off during a winter storm, as is very common with this ornamental variety. I use a variety of vintage hand tools, such as axes, saws, hand planes, and rasps, to proces...
Sharpening and restoring vintage auger bits | Part 2
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Spiral auger bits are one of the great achievements of the hand tool era. It's not uncommon to find sets of rusty vintage auger bits that are in poor shape. The majority of vintage auger bits I find have been filed improperly. Many of these bits were passed down for multiple generations and I think the art of filing auger bits was largely lost in later generations as electric tools took over in...
Sharpening and restoring vintage auger bits | Part 1
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Spiral auger bits are one of the great achievements of the hand tool era. It's not uncommon to find sets of rusty vintage auger bits that are in poor shape. The majority of vintage auger bits I find have been filed improperly. Many of these bits were passed down for multiple generations and I think the art of filing auger bits was largely lost in later generations as electric tools took over in...
Vintage bit brace restoration | 1920 Millers Falls No. 772 Lion chuck
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In this video, I restore a Millers Falls No. 772 10-inch bit brace made around 1920. This was the top of the line brace made by Millers Falls at the height of hand tool manufacturing in the US. It features the powerful ball-bearing "Lion" chuck, Leland's universal jaws that can hold multiple types of bit shanks, a steel-enclosed ratchet mechanism, steel-clad head with ball bearings, tropical ha...
Rare 1860s Disston eagle medallion hand saw | Restoration
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In this video, I restore an antique Disston eagle medallion hand saw made in the early 1860s. I remove paint and rust from the saw while preserving the patina, and show how to make a screwdriver bit for tightening split nuts - including heat treatment, how to remove a bow or bend in a saw blade by hammering, and how to correct a saw that drifts off the line. My goal in tool restoration is to ma...
Rare 1880s Richardson Bros. hand saw | Restoration
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In this video I restore a rare hand saw while preserving the patina. The Richardson brothers began making saws in Newark, NJ in 1859 and the company was absorbed by Disston in 1890. This No. 7 rip saw dates to the 1880s. The blade is of extremely high quality. My goal in tool restoration is to make the tool clean and functional while preserving all of the unique signs of its age and history.