Search results

  1. M

    Building with Reclaimed Heritage Brick (and Demolishing a House)

    I have no garage at my current house, but I have a few potential opportunities locally where some old (late 1800's) houses are slated for demolition to make way for housing development. I have been in contact with the town building department who has approved the use of reclaimed brick, and have...
  2. M

    Picked up an old "Electro Punch." Anyone know about these?

    I stopped at a garage sale when I spotted a few tools (as you do), and this guy followed me out for $8. Never seen or heard of one before, really I bought it just because of curiosity. Far as I can tell from google, Black and Webster still make a version of it, used mainly for swaging, striking...
  3. M

    Like a Hurricane - 1960 Willys Pickup Project

    I'm starting this thread so as not to clog up my garage thread, but the 2 kind of go hand in hand. I hope in this thread to chronicle the -likely slow- progress of work on my 1960 Willys pickup. I bought it back in March of 2012, and began a blog about it here: http://willyspickup.blogspot.ca/ ...
  4. M

    Anybody Have A Bedroom Closet Workshop?

    I don't think I was a regular kid. I bought a '51 Willys 1-Ton tow truck while my peers bought Playstations, I wore steel toed boots to school every day since I was in grade 6, and I had a 75 Craftsman riding mower that I painted flames on at 12. Another break from the social norm was that I...
  5. M

    Workshop 88

    Finally going to cave and start a thread here. My wife and I Just bough our first house a few months ago, and tucked into the back corner of the property is the PO's early 90's kit-garage. 12'x22' of blank slate, since they never did much to it. My goal is to chronicle some of the changes this...
Top Bottom