tool restoration

 After looking for many years and losing many auctions, I finally won a Norris A5 smoother for a reasonable price. I knew it needed a lot of work, ...

A friend recently gave me a bag with a bundle of goodies inside that needed cleaning up. Among them was this Rapier plane that as you can see is lo...

I found this in the shed and claimed it before finding out what it was. It’s a remnant of my granddad’s kit and hasn’t really been looked after. As...

I have been quite busy lately and found it difficult to get out and make anything for a while but I have a collection of old hand tools that need r...

It was only after watching a youtube video about making a chair by hand that I actually worked out what these are. I had put to them to one side in...