Recent content by Bob Hall

Tarnished, thank you. The place changes almost weekly. I stopped showing the machines coming and going, but the planes mostly just come and live here. The block head is on a newer sheet metal stand that a friend gave me. It’s a nice block head, I have all the parts for it, but took them off to...

A new old place for my planes. This cabinet came from my late mother’s house. It was there long before me and was , I was told, the upper part of an old fashioned kitchen cabinet like a Hoosier cabinet. It will stay with me now as long I last.

Scott, Greetings from West Virginia's "west coast" . You have a beautiful place, I look forward to watching your building project! Bob in Parkersburg

Some of my favorite chisels and hand saws as well my Unisaw came from the shop of a fellow named Stanley ( no,really ). His names adds much value to these tools for me. In addition to the fact that they are excellent for their designed purpose, I got Stanley's story from his son and I keep it in...

Here's a rare picture of work in the "mess". Doing a little adjustment to the barn door style baby gate that I made for my son and his wife.

I've made a few upgrades to the "mess" lately. Here's a new old bench I found last weekend. It's been the object of a multi year search. That is to find one priced like a workbench and not priced like a kitchen island or some other decorative object. It will only be a bench as long as I have it...

Good job Ryan: On the woodworking ( you are certainly not a novice) On the filming ( I don't know squat about filming but I know what I like) On showing how blasted good the Festool dust collection is. (I can't believe you do wood working right beside the beautiful custom car and don't get it...

Ryan, that's a real nice piece of work! I like your orderly process and the outcome is excellent. The opening in the back of a contractor saw is the age old problem for dust collection, but looking at your final scene, I wondered if you could make a panel that covers the opening and is removed...

His channel is great, I've been watching for sometime now.

Another vote for PEX. For all the reasons mentioned above and one more that my son and I ran into recently. In an old house with frozen and split copper we simply couldn't get to the damage to fix it and any pipe requiring fittings would have given us the same problem. We used the PEX and just...

Count me in! I like my SK stuff better than any I've tried.

A few more views with some tools on the pegboard. As my wife said,"take some pictures before you screw it up"! She knows me too well.

A little organization has crept into the mess. Have look.

So good to see a man fullfilling a dream! I'll enjoy watching the progress and I too am encouraged by you.

I'm just glad that they are out there, both the maker spaces and the makers. Americans are supposed to be makers. Just like here on GJ, it's heartening to see we still are!