Recent content by Bryan Burns

My Stanley 101 three and a half inch pocket block plane. I'm very fond of it as is always does exactly what I want it to do, Bought it at a tool meet for $15 a year or two ago,

It does go all the way through and the head on the other side looks the same. The wear pattern on the pin heads suggests to me that it could be factory that's why I asked. I couldn't even find any information on the KK ax head without the pin. I sold the ax last week at a tool meet to a...

I have this 2lb 3 3/4 inch pinned Keen Kutter. Does this look factory to you or user modified? My first pinned axe ever and no nothing about them. Not a lot on the internet about pinned axes except for using a 3/16 inch roll pin which this is decidedly not.

Here are mine. Wards Master tools are equivalent in quality to vintage CRAFTSMAN but don't have the same name recognition. Just my honest opinion.

I have one too, and it's my favorite among several brands, as it's very stout.

LOL, my google searches showed the same. I imagine some ********* hammer collector would love it. I only keep hammers I would like to use and this one isn't one. It's decently made but not perfectly balanced and the handle is just too thick all around.

Another user (not me) modified hammer. Peen no longer ball shaped.

Flat sided 5 oz. ball peen. Very flat on both sides. Was this most probably done with a mill? I assume it would be difficult to get this flat with an angle grinder. Is the red epoxy in the head indicative of a Plumb? I know I've seen this red around before.

Yellow hammer not yellow. Anyone know anything about this brand?

Fascinating, thanks Ryan. The guy made it look easy, as if he's done each step a million times before. I had no idea that Rolex crystals were acrylic. Just kind of assumed they were very high quality glass. (I know nothing about high-end watches and just wear a eco-drive. I'd rock a Rolex if I...

@JustVicingIt Beautiful. Looks like a $5k or more workbench. What's the advantage of raw linseed oil over boiled?

Awe Awesome, thanks. I especially like the catalog page. And until yesterday, and these threads, I didn't even know who the maker mine was because of the missing label elements. I would love, love love to have all three sizes of the boxes.

Looks like I have a match to yours. I brought mine home about four years ago from a garage sale ($5). I too didn't have idea of what to use it for,. Now it's my road box for when I go to my 91 year old mother's five bedroom home My pics below.

Cleaned the schmutz off my workbench top.

Sure does. Thanks!