Recent content by khFokke

Anybody recognize the maker of the left wrench? I have several with that mark but have no idea who made them

Dolmar/Makita (they are the same machines, just different colors) are maybe the best. Not sure about the customer service tho. Otherwise Stihl is very good. I own a vintage 67cc Stihl 038 Super and it's been running great for almost 40 years cutting firewood. I also have a very old Stihl 07S...

220 Euro = 240 $ Too much, too far away. I'll keep searching. Nice tools are accessible everywhere, you just need to dig deep enough and have pockets deep enough. Consider that the average monthly revenue here is €300 ($325) for factory workers and farmhands.

My profile already has my location: Serbia. I really don't think anything about my vise: I have no idea where it's from. The anvil is a brand named JEB, as you can read on the anvil, and is made in Austria. The picture is from an add from a local site, a sort of Craigslist in my country where...

@jakemac: Yes I'm very well aware of that. I want to restore the vise just for the sake of it, not to abuse it. Being the anvil on the rear an original part of the vise, it has to be there even if I am not going to use it. I use a blacksmith's post vise for most of my work, it is steel and very...

I think I know the vise you are talking about, with those bolts on the sides. My uncle who is a mechanic owns one and I have seen more of them. I don't think highly of that type of vise. Mine is very similar to the Boley vise. I guess it's a common design in Germany and Eastern Europe. I have...

Here's my great-grandpa's vise, the most common one in this part of the world: In this vise the back jaw and half the body move backwards on a sliding dovetail, while most Western vises (like the overabundant vintage American ones on this thread) use a different system. I'm planning to do...

That's the evolution of the plow plane. This is a wooden plow: Plow planes are used to cut grooves along the grain of the wood. They are generally rough tools that bite deep and remove waste wood, not as smooth as some other planes. Metal planes of this kind are called combination planes...

Hello, introducing myself... I make a living farming the land in southern Serbia. I also do woodworking and i'm a tool lover. Any kind and age of tool makes me happy. My garage is actually a barn with two tractors inside, farming equipment, wooden carriages and many tools from this old country...