Hand & Power Tools

My new set of Blue Spruce Paring Chisels.

My new Blue Spruce Butt Chisel Set
After waiting since early October when I first emailed Dave Jeske I’ve finally got them to play with. Dave Jeske has certainly come up with something special and well worth the wait.

So as yet unused and needing their first honing here they are

Some tools I had for Christmas 2007

Veritas #22 of 300 Limited Edition

A limited edition plane from Veritas #22 of 300 superbly manufactured from stainless steel

I’ve got two Record 044′s
An old friend gave me a Record 044 (the one on the left)

That brings my plough collection to ten in number, consisting of 2 Record 044′s. 1 Record 050. one Record 050C. 2 Record 43′s. 1 Record 405. 1 Stanley 71. 1 Stanley 78. and 1 Stanley 45.

New Lie Nielsen & Veritas tools

Lie Nielsen #98 & #99 Planes. Left & right 1/2″ skew chisels. 1″ Bevel edge chisel. Spoke shave. Veritas hold down.

Well this finishes the bevel edged chisel cabinet, added are the 1″ chisel third in from right, and the last two on the right which are a left and right handed 1/2″ skew chisels.

With my new Stanley cabinet finished this is the renovated #5 1/2 thats going in it

Here it is full up

Stanley #5 #6 #7
All with new japaning

But first a little gloat, this is a pic of my Lie Nielsen Bevel Edged Chisel Set.


A New Tool Cabinet

I built is cos I got no room left for all the Stanleys

Here’s a close up of the dovetails

I done some mods to an old chisel, made it in to a marking/striking knife

This is my tool cupboard, it made entirely from scraps of leftover hardwoods, Utile, Sappele, Iroko, Oak.
Here are some close ups, sorry about the distorsions, blame the photographer

I couldn’t be arsed to list this lot, but here’s a pic

Here are some Jigs and more odd planes

Leigh Dovetail Jig and on the shelf behind are all the chargers for cordless drills etc etc…

Some hand made mallets

Stanley 10 1/2

Lie Nielsen 10 1/4

Stanley #5 #6 #7

Clifton 4 1/2

Lie Nielsen #73 shoulder plane

Lie Nielsen Rabbet Block Plane

When I was building my new tool cabinet I had to empty the old ones, I couldn’t resist taking this pic

Yes two new Lie Nielsen tools. Bought them on Ebay, the seller said they were mint condition. They are too, they’ve never been used.

I think I better update this page as the tool cabinet in the earlier pics no longer exists

You may have seen this cabinet on other pages but this is how my hand tool cabinet looks today (10th June 2009)

Tool Cabinet Remodel
Adding the Blue Spruce Butt Chisels I needed to alter the storage, here’s a pic of the cabinet now

I’ve also added a pair of these