Woodworking in a Tiny Shop

Recently, for reasons I shall not mention on this hand tools blog, I retrieved my old Fein Turbo II (model 9-55-13) shop vac from storage, where it's been for the last 13 years.

Well, I got back to the Handworks event in Amana, IA on Sept. 4th and 5th.

Sandusky Tool Co. was in business from 1869 to the mid- or late-1920's.

Last post I wrote about buying several tools from the widow of a woodworker who, after several months of grieving, was ready to let go of her husband's tools.

A friend was asked to help a lady sell off her deceased husband's tools.

My wife has recently gotten into watercolor painting, and the paper she uses comes in a thing called a block.

Back in February I got this small incannel gouge at a tool show.

Until now, I've stored the irons for my wooden plow plane in a roll that gets put in a drawer.

I've recently been working on my old woodie plow plane and it got me thinking about the Veritas plow.

A couple weeks ago I presented a problem I was having with my wooden plow plane, especially when trying to plow a groove in end grain.

I volunteer for an organization called the "Repair Cafe", whose purpose is to rebuff our throw-away culture by fixing things for people (for free) and thereby keeping stuff out of landfills.

I've had this Ohio Tool #96 plow plane for a number of years now and I really love using it.

This is a project I've thought about for a long time.

My local tool collectors group, PAST, got together on April 18th.

Lately I've been working on some old tools that I've found at garage or estate sales.

When I found this brace a few weeks ago, I grabbed it because I didn't have a 6" brace.

My name is Matt and I've got a problem.

Last time I wrote about hammering out the kink that this saw had.

A few months ago, I responded to an ad for an old handsaw.

I had been having trouble getting this plane to work properly.

I was given this plane in pretty rough condition by a guy who really didn't know anything about planes.

At the end of January, I went to the PAST tool collectors show in Fremont, CA.

It's been several months now that I've had problems with Unplugged Shop, the site to which many of us go to read woodworking blogs.

Any time I rehab an old tool, I think about whether or not to leave as much patina as I can.

During the holiday break, we took a trip north way up to the Eureka, California area.

For the mini chest of drawers that I recently completed, I struggled to decide what type of drawer handles to use.

OK, so way back in July, I started on this project.