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My old Buffalo 15 drill press I picked up for $90 last summer. It seems to have very little use, everything operates smoothly. The last picture shows the table that was installed on it; a piece of sheet metal on top of 3/4" plywood.

That just might happen, I thought about keeping it as is but I don't see myself using it much. It would look great polished. Sent from my Pixel XL using The Garage Journal mobile app

I find grinders to be loud in my garage; it's in the basement right below the living room, but they are very useful. The best tool I've purchased is a manual iron worker. It was a cheap used Chinese made version, but once cleaned and adjusted it cuts great. It will cut flat bar, angle, rods...

A drill from my Grandfather; a 312AB. Quite a heavy drill with 1/2" Jacobs 34 chuck. What I find interesting is its ability to run on AC or DC power.

Thanks for the heads-up. I updated the linkes using flickr; hopefully they are working now.

Made some soft jaws for my vice. I just used scrap pine; they may not last long but will be easy to remake, and cheap! Drilled and countersunk the holes deep enough they wouldn't contact the clamped workpiece.

My first vise, a Record 75: A Woden #2 that I got for free, I just made the soft pine jaws last night: A Record 414 I bought from a machine shop, a little rough but still works well: And a Record clamp-on woodworking vice:

Hi all, I've been around the forum for a few years reading and dreaming about all of the amazing garages of the members. I moved into my house about 4 years ago and am slowly setting up the garage in between working on projects. Right now it is home to a 1941 Chev that was formerly my...