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Well Tirebob, and others...
Thanx for the memories! You guys have some pretty decent stuff!
Thanx for sharing... 
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Thats an excellent link thanks RED.
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Tire BOB ,, that was my next question, were any made of ivory? Thanks.The scrimshaw makes them even more valuable in my opinion,and ive never seen hand made pocket knives before now.
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Tire BOB ,, that was my next question, were any made of ivory? Thanks.The scrimshaw makes them even more valuable in my opinion,and ive never seen hand made pocket knives before now.
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Lots of guys make them by hand even today. My good friend Paul Mason from England makes the most amazing traditional slipjoints as well as fixed blades. If you were to order one of his pieces today it would be over a 5 year wait and cost a small fortune lol! I say by hand... Obviously there is equipment like a grinder etc, but all his work is controlled by his hands without jigs for grinding or milling, zero electronics etc. He does every aspect with his hands as the controlling factor from beginning to end. He makes maybe one to two knives a week from scratch and every single piece is unique.
https://www.instagram.com/masonknives/?hl=en
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 Some hatchets.
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Lots of guys make them by hand even today. My good friend Paul Mason from England makes the most amazing traditional slipjoints as well as fixed blades. If you were to order one of his pieces today it would be over a 5 year wait and cost a small fortune lol! I say by hand... Obviously there is equipment like a grinder etc, but all his work is controlled by his hands without jigs for grinding or milling, zero electronics etc. He does every aspect with his hands as the controlling factor from beginning to end. He makes maybe one to two knives a week from scratch and every single piece is unique.
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That guy does some awesome work .
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That guy does some awesome work .
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He truly does.. I was fortunate enough to have him gift me one of his fixed blades a few years back. This was one of his own prototype designs and I had mentioned now much I loved it on a knife forum where he posted it for opinions (the first picture with the knife still un-marked). Well we stopped in for a visit while in England on holidays and he had marked it and his wife made a sheath for it for me. Damn near shed a tear! lol!
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He truly does.. I was fortunate enough to have him gift me one of his fixed blades a few years back. This was one of his own prototype designs and I had mentioned now much I loved it on a knife forum where he posted it for opinions (the first picture with the knife still un-marked). Well we stopped in for a visit while in England on holidays and he had marked it and his wife made a sheath for it for me. Damn near shed a tear! lol!
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Gorgeous knife Bob!
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12-19-2021, 04:37 PM
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TIRE BOB Thats awesome,is this a miniature?
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TIRE BOB Thats awesome,is this a miniature? |
Haha! Nope...
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The falling saw has never been in wood. Hard to find matching handles. Have a few saws . . . was a logger.
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That is one awesome saw,made for big timber,8ft long,a feller would have to know what he is doing to fall the size of tree this could cut Wow.
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Wow love that felling saw. Its amazing to think the old time loggers used such saws every day. It was said those old boys used the axe to take a rest....from my limited experience it's true, pushing those big saws through timber is hard work, picking up your axe to chop your notch cut out allows the heart rate to slow down some.. that's a really cool saw
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Wow love that felling saw. Its amazing to think the old time loggers used such saws every day. It was said those old boys used the axe to take a rest....from my limited experience it's true, pushing those big saws through timber is hard work, picking up your axe to chop your notch cut out allows the heart rate to slow down some.. that's a really cool saw
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Totally agree. The axe part is cool too.
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I just got on this thread, I have not heard of a cross saw in years, since when the first power saw came in to existance. Anyway MERRY XMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR.
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Wow...Those are nice!
I have always been the type that enjoys the older stuff...
Makes me understand how easy things are today...
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Wow love that felling saw. Its amazing to think the old time loggers used such saws every day. It was said those old boys used the axe to take a rest....from my limited experience it's true, pushing those big saws through timber is hard work, picking up your axe to chop your notch cut out allows the heart rate to slow down some.. that's a really cool saw
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There are you tube videos of old time loggers using axes, cross cut saws and steam donkeys to fall and skid Douglas fir trees on the west coast. Definitely work watching if that sort of thing interests you. I also like watching videos of the old steam driven saw mills.
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Hewing logs into beams with a broad axe seems to be regaining interest as there are plenty of you tube videos about it. Takes them all day to accomplish what our old sawmill will do in five minutes but I appreciate the artistry of it.
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more old stuff- anyone into refinishing / repurposing cabinets?
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Those are nice!
Give me a day or so and I will send a pic of an old one I have in my shop (gifted to me) simply for a conversation piece...
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The top on that one is kind of plane looking
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The larger one is a Jack plane and the shorter ones are Bench planes I believe....lol they are just plain planes though, lol
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I still use the same planers to finish knotty pine boards to hang doors etc. I must be from Old School.
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I still use the same planers to finish knotty pine boards to hang doors etc. I must be from Old School.
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Not meaning to derail but how would you use pine boards to hang a door?
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The larger one is a Jack plane and the shorter ones are Bench planes I believe....lol they are just plain planes though, lol
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The two Stanley planes are definitely post WW2. A quick assessment I would place the blue one being from the 60's called a Type 20. The number four I guess to be a Type 19 which was late 40's to early 60's. If you disassemble everything, ie the leaver cap, remove the blades and check out the frogs etc and get good shots of all the bits we could discern it a little more exact but I think I am on with those date ranges.
The made in England one though is a little tougher. Any better shots of it?
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Here is the old plane I was taking about previously. Was gifted to me. Circa unknown...
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That's a pretty nice old plane.
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Thats very cool. The handle looks like it was repurposed from a handsaw
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