Made some sticks this weekend

[Kenneth Fisher]

While I've been waiting to finish another project I've been working on these. I reclaimed the wood from some flooring that was being thrown out, all in all a good weekend :)

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The straight edge is actually the straightest thing in my garage at the moment. I'm really happy with the way the inlay turned out on the winding sticks even though I had to go a lot deeper than I wanted. But the marking gauge is my favorite, works like a champ and feels good in the hand.

[Brian Holcombe]

Nice work Kenneth!

[Jim Koepke]

Great looking work.

jtk

[Mike Cherry]

Clean and simple! What did you use for the pin on your marking gauge?

[Barry Dima]

Nice! Side projects can be some of the most fun.

[Kees Heiden]

Nice, I especially like that marking gauge.

[Jeff Ranck]

Great work! I like them all!

[Kenneth Fisher]

The marking gauge is definitely my favorite, I used a sharpened finish nail for the pin.

I'd like to make a square, a double arm gauge, and a panel gauge. Any other ideas for small shop tools to make?

[Mike Cherry]

I made a dovetail square out of white oak. Paul Sellers has a video on it.

[Pat Barry]

The straight edge is actually the straightest thing in my garage at the moment.

Cool - how exactly did you get it to be so straight and how do you verify it? Any tricks up your sleeve that you'd perhaps elaborate on? Thanks

[Kenneth Fisher]

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Cool - how exactly did you get it to be so straight and how do you verify it? Any tricks up your sleeve that you'd perhaps elaborate on? Thanks

Once I got it kinda straight, I set my smoothing plane to the finest setting I could get and when I could pull a single shaving across the entire length I started checking. I'd start with a visual check, sighting down the length and once I fixed the errors I could see I started checking against itself. I used it to draw a line on the bench, flipped it over the line, lined up the ends and drew a second line. Once both lines were the same I knew I was close enough for woodworking.

[Stew Denton]

Hi Kenneth,

Very nice job!

I have wanted to get some lumber for marking gauges, winding sticks, a square to two, and mallet heads and handles, etc. I have been looking for some tree trimmings or cut down trees, etc.

Your post "recycled flooring" reminded me of some lumber that I have, and didn't even think about! I too have some reclaimed flooring that I salvaged years (read that about 30 years ago and is in my attic), for projects and have some left over, and also a bit of old bowling alley lumber. I can get squares, mallet handles (I think), and winding sticks out of this stuff. I thought I was really poor on lumber for such projects, now with your reminder I realize that for very small projects, I am actually rich!

Thanks for the post, and again nice work! (I need to think what I have that will work for a mallet head, or may have to break down and actually buy some....not my normal approach.)

Thanks and regards,

Stew