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I’ve been experimenting with different types of wood for walking sticks and shillelagh. This one is very light, is from a chestnut sapling ( the root ball is in my hand), it is tipped with a short chunk of aluminum pipe, and would be an excellent hiking companion:

A good friend gave these pry bars a few years ago and told me they were Japanese made, but they were so filthy I couldn’t find any sort of manufacturing marks until I finally cleaned them up today! They seem to be of high quality: the bigger one was abused rather hard by me, and the edge of the...

Also, no stains or fasteners were purchased for this project. I used 2 different old stains, barely mixed together, to get a pretty interesting finish both on the applewood and the top. All wood cutting was done with a chainsaw, with some rasping and hand sanding

The last couple of days we were in Italy, I was cutting up some fruit trees for firewood, found a 4 legged small stump, any a very old board scrap: Voila! An outdoor cocktail table for the patio!

Well, I took the thing apart but could not figure out how to get the screw out without grinding the hinge off, so I filled it down to the point that the screw now looks like a very thin rivet. The jaws now meet, but not mate. I think it will be a handy tool anyway

I’m going to see if I can get it out…. Thanks for the input!

Where do you find something like this?!!!!

Thanks for that. I’ve never seen one of these before, and I’ve never been around jewelers tools other than a ring sizer - I have a porter old one. This one has a spring. The screw that holds the spring interferes with the jaws closing completely. I’m thinking about filling it down until it...

Been outta the loop recently - in Italy! Most of what I’ve found stashed randomly all over the place it’s not very interesting, but this is It’s like a small vise that can be held in your hand. I have no idea what it could have been used for, but I suspect it would hold 2 vineyard trellis wires...

I did absolutely nothing in my shop today either - not in the last week. But almost done painting my house!

Me too…

I did absolutely nothing in the shop today - walleye and small mouth bass fishing on the Columbia River today with my neighbor: 4 nice walleye and 8 bass, 4 of which were 17”. My buddy caught a 12 lb walleye 2 weeks ago at this area

Yup. Proper 12, I believe

Made a necklace and earrings for a good friend

Great idea!