Here are three new additions to my shop. The Woodjoy spokeshave was acquired during the Hartvilletool cost+10 special. I have been very pleased with it. The shave was used in the creation of the handles for the burnisher and the hammer. Both of the handles were done with out a lathe.
The head of the hammer came from a busted machinist hammer from the shop at work. A little time on a belt sander and with a file and most of the 10+ years of abuse were removed. I left some dings for aesthetic reasons. I did remove the 1/8” bulge from the edge of the faces that had mushroomed out from all whacking of steep parts. I used the original pin hole and a spring pin to secure the head to the new handle.
The burnisher is a 5/16” dia. carbide rod. It is the shaft from a broken lathe tool. The shaft is polished and should be perfect for burnishing my scrapers. The brass furl is a compression nut out of the scrap bin. I filed off the corners and rounded it up on a piece of pipe in the drill press/mini mill. I used epoxy to secure the rod and nut.
The next Mid West Tool Collectors Assoc. meeting is this coming Saturday at Bethania Moravian Church near Winston-Salem. I'll post some more detail later this evening.
I'm going to have to miss another one. I will be swimming 2.4 miles down at Wilmington this weekend. I am going to do the swim for an Ironman relay team Saturday morning. Do you know of any shops worth checking out in downtown Wilmington? Enjoy the meeting.
I've never run across any, not to say they're not there. I'd like to know if there are since I'm in Wilmington usually once a year when we vacation at Oak Island.
Geodesic Shop Crawl April 10th 
10-21-2009, 09:13 PM
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