Nice draw knife. I could have used one the other day on a project I am doing. Ya can’t find them except at tool swap meets. I know I am going to pick one up next time I see one.
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I still have the one I bought way back in high school. 2 bucks and 50 cents at a very old hardware store. paper tag with string, written in pencil.
and after 50 some years it still holds a edge and will cut the shit out of you if you don’t know how to use it. prexto brand. ash handles.
I have found using a couple of good clamps on the workbench works well
if it doesn’t fit in the vise, that is. don’t have room for a shaving horse.
used to save broken glass for scraping wood smooth too.
I’ll give ya $5 bucks for it and pay for shipping… ya doubled your money.
We can get those all day up here. Lotta log cabins being built. How many ya want & what size? I’ll be happy to ship ‘em down. I’ll shoot you my email addy if yer innerested…
you have to talk with the grandson about that. showed him how to use it 2 summer ago this year we going to make a tool chest together for his (mine doubles ) tools .
last year made new handles for some wood chisels out of hickory and ash for his set. picked up a few old buck and stanley chisels at flea markets and yard sales for him.
his dovetails need a bit of work yet, little loose, but fixable
.
Naa, It needs to stay with him! I was goshing. Great you are teaching him wood working, it will serve him well.
You can still buy them at woodworking stores like Woodcraft, Highland Hardware in Atlanta and at many online woodworking stores. But they will be a lot more than a buck two eighty-five.
Granted, all mine, I picked up at yard sales pretty cheap.
I still have one of my Grandfathers Draw Knives.
When he died back in ’99 me and my brother flew back to Tennessee where he had moved for the funeral.
He had a big shop full of tools. All I could get was what I could Carry On coming back on the plane. That was one, a Hand Plane, a Tubing cutter set and that was about it.
Being it was ’99, it was before DHS and their Airport antics but I still had to tell the guy at the Xray table why I had a bunch of wood working tools in my Carry On bag.
My Grandpa was real big on engraving his initials in everything so I can tell at a glance what was his.
Same here – when my dad died I tried to scarf up as much of his tools as I could before his second wife sold ’em!
Ebay is a good place to find old tools. Try searching for “vintage whatever.” There are scalpers but there are also good deals to be found. I bought a decent used bit and brace and a nice hand drill a few years ago.
You can make one out of a leaf spring, I made one and it takes an Oxy/Acet set with a
rosebud and a hydraulic press helps. Some steel normalizes well some not so much.
I draw the pattern on the spring and leave some extra for the handles. I use a plasma cutter to remove most of the “not knife”, and then heat and bend the handles to a pleasing shape. Everything is still flatstock and I like to use the O/A unit to bring it to a cherry red, I like to have a box of dead sand that is heated over a flame or what have you..get that steel hot, I have used a magnet but do not feel that the steel has to lose its descalescence, it has to be cherry red and then covered in the heated sand and allowed to cool very slowly. The next day you can file, machine, drill, tap, you name it. I like to set the angle on the edge and then file it, yes I could mill it but filing it allows the contour. The handles can be filed or ground to a rough size and then tapped for the handles and a nut…I like to polish everything up and then get everything ready for heat treatment.. I quench in heated oil, and then polish again and temper by color and time. I used it to strip the bark off of my maple firewood and it works great. Sharpening is easy with a file and stone.
I rescued mine from a friend’s pile of scrap metal. As he was loading it up to cross the scales. Right time, right place, right price.
I told if he wanted me to hand his doobie back he’d have to hand me the drawknife. Like taking steel from a newbie.
I have one that I believe was my grandfather’s. Took it from my Dad’s cellar when he and Mum decided that they couldn’t keep house any more. It’s still razor sharp.
I also have a bit brace with several sizes of long bits. Dad was a licensed plumber/steamfitter. He used the bit brace to drill holes in 2X4’s for water tubing and steam pipes before the advent of power tools became prevalent.
I still have the one I bought way back in high school. 2 bucks and 50 cents at a very old hardware store. paper tag with string, written in pencil.
and after 50 some years it still holds a edge and will cut the shit out of you if you don’t know how to use it. prexto brand. ash handles.
I have found using a couple of good clamps on the workbench works well
if it doesn’t fit in the vise, that is. don’t have room for a shaving horse.
used to save broken glass for scraping wood smooth too.
I’ll give ya $5 bucks for it and pay for shipping… ya doubled your money.
We can get those all day up here. Lotta log cabins being built. How many ya want & what size? I’ll be happy to ship ‘em down. I’ll shoot you my email addy if yer innerested…
you have to talk with the grandson about that. showed him how to use it 2 summer ago this year we going to make a tool chest together for his (mine doubles ) tools .
last year made new handles for some wood chisels out of hickory and ash for his set. picked up a few old buck and stanley chisels at flea markets and yard sales for him.
his dovetails need a bit of work yet, little loose, but fixable
.
Naa, It needs to stay with him! I was goshing. Great you are teaching him wood working, it will serve him well.
You can still buy them at woodworking stores like Woodcraft, Highland Hardware in Atlanta and at many online woodworking stores. But they will be a lot more than a buck two eighty-five.
Granted, all mine, I picked up at yard sales pretty cheap.
I still have one of my Grandfathers Draw Knives.
When he died back in ’99 me and my brother flew back to Tennessee where he had moved for the funeral.
He had a big shop full of tools. All I could get was what I could Carry On coming back on the plane. That was one, a Hand Plane, a Tubing cutter set and that was about it.
Being it was ’99, it was before DHS and their Airport antics but I still had to tell the guy at the Xray table why I had a bunch of wood working tools in my Carry On bag.
My Grandpa was real big on engraving his initials in everything so I can tell at a glance what was his.
Same here – when my dad died I tried to scarf up as much of his tools as I could before his second wife sold ’em!
Ebay is a good place to find old tools. Try searching for “vintage whatever.” There are scalpers but there are also good deals to be found. I bought a decent used bit and brace and a nice hand drill a few years ago.
You can make one out of a leaf spring, I made one and it takes an Oxy/Acet set with a
rosebud and a hydraulic press helps. Some steel normalizes well some not so much.
I draw the pattern on the spring and leave some extra for the handles. I use a plasma cutter to remove most of the “not knife”, and then heat and bend the handles to a pleasing shape. Everything is still flatstock and I like to use the O/A unit to bring it to a cherry red, I like to have a box of dead sand that is heated over a flame or what have you..get that steel hot, I have used a magnet but do not feel that the steel has to lose its descalescence, it has to be cherry red and then covered in the heated sand and allowed to cool very slowly. The next day you can file, machine, drill, tap, you name it. I like to set the angle on the edge and then file it, yes I could mill it but filing it allows the contour. The handles can be filed or ground to a rough size and then tapped for the handles and a nut…I like to polish everything up and then get everything ready for heat treatment.. I quench in heated oil, and then polish again and temper by color and time. I used it to strip the bark off of my maple firewood and it works great. Sharpening is easy with a file and stone.
I rescued mine from a friend’s pile of scrap metal. As he was loading it up to cross the scales. Right time, right place, right price.
I told if he wanted me to hand his doobie back he’d have to hand me the drawknife. Like taking steel from a newbie.
I have one that I believe was my grandfather’s. Took it from my Dad’s cellar when he and Mum decided that they couldn’t keep house any more. It’s still razor sharp.
I also have a bit brace with several sizes of long bits. Dad was a licensed plumber/steamfitter. He used the bit brace to drill holes in 2X4’s for water tubing and steam pipes before the advent of power tools became prevalent.