rivett608
Diamond
- Joined
- Oct 25, 2002
- Location
- Kansas City, Mo.
It seems it has been a while since I posted any pictures of my work so I thought I would. I kind of refer to this as my "Gold Watch"..... after doing this kind of work for 20 years I kind of thought I should have some little memento of my business and since I'm self employed the boss is not going to give me a gold watch for 20 years service.... he's me and too cheap. Anyway I did this about 10 years ago.
So since I collect old tools what better than a tiny tool chest. This is a 18th century English Gentleman's Tool Chest, based on the Hewitt chest at Williamsburg. The chest is made from Mopane wood which looks like mahogany in scale and oxidizes similarly. The secondary wood is swiss pear. The chest has dovetails sides and drawers, dust shields between the drawers, tongue and grove joints on the lid, vee notch and cross lap joints on the dividers. The lock works and the label is printed on 18th century paper.
All the tools work, even the plane's tote (handle) is set a scale 1/8" to one side as the original. The saw has 160 teeth to the inch... milled on my F-3. The hardest was the folding rule with 5 leaf hinge... about .030" thick and hand engraved on boxwood. Things like the shears and dividers have nice little joints........ so some time if you have a little spare time make yourself a little something....... it can be time well spent.... after all it's Labor Day so get to work.... I should.
So since I collect old tools what better than a tiny tool chest. This is a 18th century English Gentleman's Tool Chest, based on the Hewitt chest at Williamsburg. The chest is made from Mopane wood which looks like mahogany in scale and oxidizes similarly. The secondary wood is swiss pear. The chest has dovetails sides and drawers, dust shields between the drawers, tongue and grove joints on the lid, vee notch and cross lap joints on the dividers. The lock works and the label is printed on 18th century paper.
All the tools work, even the plane's tote (handle) is set a scale 1/8" to one side as the original. The saw has 160 teeth to the inch... milled on my F-3. The hardest was the folding rule with 5 leaf hinge... about .030" thick and hand engraved on boxwood. Things like the shears and dividers have nice little joints........ so some time if you have a little spare time make yourself a little something....... it can be time well spent.... after all it's Labor Day so get to work.... I should.
JRouche
