When I do a household repair, seems like I carry a couple of tools to the task and later return many more than I can carry when the task is finished. My tool tote can hold a rafter square and is too large and clumsy for household tasks. So, I made another smaller one.
The pine is from over 50 year old shelving that my neighbor removed and gave to me. Planed the pine to 1/2” thick. Handle is a crooked branch from a beech tree that fell across a greenway trail. Stripped the bark with a drawknife and a spokeshave. Round tenons turned on a lathe.
Been wanting to make a grooving plane for drawer bottoms and made this one for this project. Iron made from O1 tool steel, heated with a MAPP torch & then quenched in peanut oil, and tempered in a toaster oven. Body is quarter-sawn beech from Capitol City Lumber.
Last bit was a removable sliding tray for small stuff like wire nuts, faucet washers, etc.
The pine is from over 50 year old shelving that my neighbor removed and gave to me. Planed the pine to 1/2” thick. Handle is a crooked branch from a beech tree that fell across a greenway trail. Stripped the bark with a drawknife and a spokeshave. Round tenons turned on a lathe.
Been wanting to make a grooving plane for drawer bottoms and made this one for this project. Iron made from O1 tool steel, heated with a MAPP torch & then quenched in peanut oil, and tempered in a toaster oven. Body is quarter-sawn beech from Capitol City Lumber.
Last bit was a removable sliding tray for small stuff like wire nuts, faucet washers, etc.
