18th century joiner plane. All it needed was a little flattening, and sharpening of the iron and chip breaker. It takes a beautiful shaving now.

I am working towards building my own workbench. When I moved in there was one in the garage already but the top is MDF, and it's way too wide at like 5 feet. I hate that I can't walk around it or reach the other side, it gets mad dirty back there.

I am going to make a fore plane next, but before that I need to make floats. Then I will be all set.

  • Chronicon [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    I haven't been to a good flea market in ages

    there used to be some outside the city but idk any more, I'll have to look into it.

    • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      I just started going to them they are really cool. You can get killer deals especially on old tools. I got a pair of saws for five bucks yesterday!

    • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      There’s two really large ones near me but the prices have approached “no lowballers I know what I’ve got” levels, for what is mostly just junk. The good shit has already been picked over by antique restorers, flippers, friends of those doing the sales, etc.

      Flea markets got hip and that fucking sucks. Get off my lawn.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    cool as hell, imagine all the things thats been made on this