Old tools

Sep 13, 2018 12 Replies

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Muddymike 7 years ago

No not you lot these

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Do any of you know what they are? I've not been around for a while as I've been living in 3 different holiday lets waiting to complete on our new workshop, sorry I mean new home:-)

Currently having great fun sorting out all the junk the previous owner left in the workshop. Electric drill, sander, hot air gun, lawn scarifier, strimmer, chain saw, lawn feed spinner, and a whole rack of garden tools. Plus so much more including 3 wheel barrows and a cement mixer! They all work and there are even spare wheels for the barrows.

I'm not confident the workshop is going to be big enough, its only 21ft x 65ft :-)

Mike

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Tim Lamb 7 years ago

In message , Muddymike writes

I can beat that easily:-) Further more I have a witness!

Are they for wood turning?

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tabbypurr 7 years ago

I wondered that but they don't look right for it.

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Tim+ 7 years ago

No, they?re ?spoon bits? for drilling wood (by hand).

Tim

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John Rumm 7 years ago

Well you learn something every day - I had never heard of those, but it sounds like chair makers are very fond of them.

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newshound 7 years ago

Presumably they were used with a wooden handle?

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John Rumm 7 years ago

I would expect them to go into a brace... those in the picture look like they have something akin to the tapered square section normally seem on the "bit".

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Muddymike 7 years ago

Perhaps I should take up spindle back chair making.

Mike

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GB 7 years ago

I'm quite relieved at the explanation. My mother was a gynaecologist, and I'm sure she had similar bits and pieces in her surgery.

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newshound 7 years ago

Ah yes, now you say that I remember seeing pictures of them in a brace

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Chris Hogg 7 years ago

There's a Youtube video of someone using a modern spoon-bit in a lathe to turn out a pipe bowl, here

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The bit is solid, whereas the ones that Muddymike has looked hollowed out and concave, as you'd expect from the name.

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John Rumm 7 years ago

Including the brace? ;-)

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Tim+ 7 years ago

Brain surgeons uses bits and braces.

Not for the squeamish...

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Tim

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