Doug Mason
06-05-2007, 12:33 AM
I was out in the garage practicing w/a spokeshave on a cabriole leg--and I slammed the face of the spokeshave into a metal dog. I did this twice and now have two gouges in the face of the brass (or bronze?) spokeshave. This got me thinking about my handtools. In the last eight months, I have:
1) dropped a LN 4 Smoother on a concrete floor which took it out of square.
2) Unknowing ran my #7 jointer plane over screws until there were long, multiple gouges in the sole from end-to-end (it still works fine)
3) dropped my LN rip saw on the concrete floor--chipping a chunck of the handle off.
4) overtightened the tighening screw on my block plane-resulting in the tighening lever bolt bending (but it still works fine)
5) in the prosess of trying to learn how to flatten a plane sole, I destroyed a fairly good block plane.
All of these occurances yet I don't at all consider myself reckless; it just confirms that if I'm going to use these tools, I better be able to fix them.
1) dropped a LN 4 Smoother on a concrete floor which took it out of square.
2) Unknowing ran my #7 jointer plane over screws until there were long, multiple gouges in the sole from end-to-end (it still works fine)
3) dropped my LN rip saw on the concrete floor--chipping a chunck of the handle off.
4) overtightened the tighening screw on my block plane-resulting in the tighening lever bolt bending (but it still works fine)
5) in the prosess of trying to learn how to flatten a plane sole, I destroyed a fairly good block plane.
All of these occurances yet I don't at all consider myself reckless; it just confirms that if I'm going to use these tools, I better be able to fix them.