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SOLD: Japanese Socket Awls

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I can barely remember life without these Japanese awls rolling around in my tool chest. They have Japanese white oak handles (mine are well-patinated). The steel has been filed to a point repeatedly by me — these things have seen real use.

They are, however, in great shape. Feel good in the hand and have lots of life left in them.

Price: $18 for the pair plus $5 domestic shipping.

About Tool Sales on My Blog

Please read this if you are interested in buying a tool. Why am I selling these tools? Read this entry before you freak out. There is no “master list” of tools that I can send you. I am working through several piles of tools and will list them when I can.

Want to see only the tools that haven’t sold? Easy. I’ve created a category for that on this blog. Click here and bookmark that page. When you visit that link, you’ll see only the tools that haven’t been sold.

While you can ask me all the questions you like about the tool, the first person to send me an e-mail that says: “I’ll take it,” gets the tool. Simple. To buy a tool, please send me an e-mail at christopher.schwarz@fuse.net.

Payment: I can accept PayPal or a personal check. As soon as the funds arrive, I’ll ship the tool using USPS. If you want insurance, let me know. I’m afraid I can only ship tools in the United States. Shipping internationally is very time-consuming and paperwork-heavy. My apologies in advance on this point.

If you don’t like the tool when you get it, I’ll be happy to refund your money if you return the tool. But postage is on you.

— Christopher Schwarz

SOLD: 10" Veritas Sliding Bevel

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SOLD: This sliding bevel is in great shape. No rust. No dings. If you don’t know about these bevels they are almost impervious to water and lock down well.

I have an embarrassment of bevels. So this one is for sale.

Price: $38 plus $6 domestic shipping.

About Tool Sales on My Blog

Please read this if you are interested in buying a tool. Why am I selling these tools? Read this entry before you freak out. There is no “master list” of tools that I can send you. I am working through several piles of tools and will list them when I can.

Want to see only the tools that haven’t sold? Easy. I’ve created a category for that on this blog. Click here and bookmark that page. When you visit that link, you’ll see only the tools that haven’t been sold.

While you can ask me all the questions you like about the tool, the first person to send me an e-mail that says: “I’ll take it,” gets the tool. Simple. To buy a tool, please send me an e-mail at christopher.schwarz@fuse.net.

Payment: I can accept PayPal or a personal check. As soon as the funds arrive, I’ll ship the tool using USPS. If you want insurance, let me know. I’m afraid I can only ship tools in the United States. Shipping internationally is very time-consuming and paperwork-heavy. My apologies in advance on this point.

If you don’t like the tool when you get it, I’ll be happy to refund your money if you return the tool. But postage is on you.

— Christopher Schwarz

SOLD: Glen-Drake No. 2 Plane Hammer

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SOLD: I’ve had this little hammer since Kevin Drake started making them. I do use it for adjusting planes, but I use it far more for small hammering tasks: tacks, driving wedges into joints and the like.

It is very comfortable to use with a hand-turned tanoak handle. It is a right-handed hammer.

Price: $55 plus $5 shipping

About Tool Sales on My Blog

Please read this if you are interested in buying a tool. Why am I selling these tools? Read this entry before you freak out. There is no “master list” of tools that I can send you. I am working through several piles of tools and will list them when I can.

Want to see only the tools that haven’t sold? Easy. I’ve created a category for that on this blog. Click here and bookmark that page. When you visit that link, you’ll see only the tools that haven’t been sold.

While you can ask me all the questions you like about the tool, the first person to send me an e-mail that says: “I’ll take it,” gets the tool. Simple. To buy a tool, please send me an e-mail at christopher.schwarz@fuse.net.

Payment: I can accept PayPal or a personal check. As soon as the funds arrive, I’ll ship the tool using USPS. If you want insurance, let me know. I’m afraid I can only ship tools in the United States. Shipping internationally is very time-consuming and paperwork-heavy. My apologies in advance on this point.

If you don’t like the tool when you get it, I’ll be happy to refund your money if you return the tool. But postage is on you.

— Christopher Schwarz

SOLD: Lie-Nielsen Convex-sole Block Plane

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SOLD: This is Lie-Nielsen’s interpretation of the Stanley 100-1/2 model-maker’s plane. The curvature of the Lie-Nielsen is not as extreme as it is on the Stanley. And the Lie-Nielsen is a bevel-up plane, unlike the Stanley.

As a result, the Lie-Nielsen is far more comfortable to use (the iron doesn’t dig into your palm). And you can easily raise the pitch to deal with wild grain.

I wish the sweep of the sole were a little more pronounced, but it still works for saddling chair seats. In fact, it excels at that task.

It’s sharp, set-up and ready to work.

Price: $75 plus $6 domestic shipping.

About Tool Sales on My Blog

Please read this if you are interested in buying a tool. Why am I selling these tools? Read this entry before you freak out. There is no “master list” of tools that I can send you. I am working through several piles of tools and will list them when I can.

Want to see only the tools that haven’t sold? Easy. I’ve created a category for that on this blog. Click here and bookmark that page. When you visit that link, you’ll see only the tools that haven’t been sold.

While you can ask me all the questions you like about the tool, the first person to send me an e-mail that says: “I’ll take it,” gets the tool. Simple. To buy a tool, please send me an e-mail at christopher.schwarz@fuse.net.

Payment: I can accept PayPal or a personal check. As soon as the funds arrive, I’ll ship the tool using USPS. If you want insurance, let me know. I’m afraid I can only ship tools in the United States. Shipping internationally is very time-consuming and paperwork-heavy. My apologies in advance on this point.

If you don’t like the tool when you get it, I’ll be happy to refund your money if you return the tool. But postage is on you.

— Christopher Schwarz

Several Sorts of Mandrels

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CL. Turners have several sorts of Mandrels, and the sizes of them also differ, according to the sizes of the Work; however their Names are, yet their principal fashions are these.

The first and principal is that as lyeth in the Base, which is termed the Broad Flat Mandrel; it is set on the broad side with 3 or 4 Iron pins or pegs, near to the Verge of it flat; these are used to be fastned into the backside of a Board while the other is turning or working upon: Behind the back of this flat (and indeed in all Mandrels) is fitted a long shank or Rowler, for the String to be wound about while the Work is Turning. In the Mandrel are these parts. The Face, or round Flat of the Mandrel. The Rowler or Shank. The Shoulder of the Rowler, to keep the String from slipping off. The Pegs, or Points, or Pikes. B. 3 such in Pale O. the middle having the Pike contrary pointed S. born by the name of Mandrell.

The second is that in the chief, which is termed the Screw Mandrell, the shank or screw is made of Iron having the two ends round, and in the middle between the round ends a square the length of the Rowler, and this square is fitted stiff into a square hole made through the middle of the Rowler that it turn not about. In each flat end of this Shank or Spindle is made a center hole, whereinto the Pikes of the Puppets are pitcht when this Mandrell is used. By this several Screws of diverse Diameters are made; that next the end of the shank is the smallest, which makes a Male screw of the finest Thread; the next a Male screw of a courser Thread; and the third makes a Screw courser than it; so that you may make the shank as long as you will, thereby to make more variety of sizes for screws.

The Sockets or Chocks belonging to the Screw Mandrels, are so many as there are several sizes of screws on the Shank; these hollow Sockets have female screws in them made before the Notch to slip over the male Screw; which being fitted one to another, are pinned with a pin, put through two opposite holes made for that purpose in the Cheeks of the Wooden Sockets that it shake not. The parts of a Socket are these. The Socket or Chock. The Wooden pin. The Stay. The Notch to slip over the Male Screw.

— From Randle Holme’s “The Academy of Armory, or, A Storehouse of Armory and Blazon” Book III, Chapter VIII, Plate 2. Why am I reading this?