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The movie poster is also slick.

Handle and tang were even length; the tang end flush with the handle hole.

I didn’t want to have to remove wood off the butt of the handle.

At the ferrule end there was a bit of room where the tang flared out just before joining the blade. I needed a way to force the handle on another 2 millimeters. It donned on me a nut would work perfect, allowing tang end to come through while whacking handle on tighter. Ferrule torqued slightly, but extra tight.

Little ball peen worked perfect.

This cap goes on the end of the tang, and the tang needs peened over it. All of my drawknives are that way, too, so this is another good practice opportunity.

I *think* I have enough tang for it. If not I’ll have to shave a bit off the butt end of the handle. The handle isn’t big to begin with, but neither is the tang.

A little washer made from brass rod would work, too.

After some fine filing and a little paper, I think that’s good enough.

I was going to put those other two grooves on the butt, but after the sloppy one at top, I’m skipping it.

The ferrule is snug (14mm copper pipe) but not super tight, so I will epoxy that before mounting, and clean up the blade a bit.

This looks like a maple, but I’m unsure. It’s growing in a bad place, right in front of the wood hangar’s door. It will have to come out. But if it’s a maple, I’ll replant it in the front of the house.

#trees

So the hand scythe I spoke of, one of the garden tools left in the house, was in worse shape than remembered from spying it months ago. A proper cool weather system has blown in with rain, so I should get this half straightened out. I’ll be needing it. Will also have to train the right hand in using it.

#Gardening
#Jardinage
#HandTools
#Restoration

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Masshole

New washer and ferrule made. The washer now fits as well as the ferrule, but with a tenth off to turn easier.

New bolt also cut. It’ll be 3 cm deeper than before. That puts it into the thickest part of the leg. I think that’s good enough.

Just need to drill and then assembly time.

But it’s been a long day. It’ll wait.

The other discovery…

I was down in the metal-shop slash boiler room, my wife was up in the bathroom directly overhead, cleaning, and water started raining down onto the workbench and my tools along the shower/tub drain pipe.

Turns out she was spraying down the wall tiles around the tub, and they are not grouted well. Water went behind them, to the floor, and down around the poorly sealed drain pipe hole, evidently.

That pushed the bathroom redo up before the kitchen.

There is no power to the hangar/shed/garden workshop thing, nor to the outlet in the bathroom cabinet, nor the outlet on the patio (the only external outlet on the property). I can't recall if I tried power to the first two before, but there was power to the last, but not now.

The hangar is a real bugger, because it has an external light, an internal light, and an internal outlet. Nothing works. Probably a buried line under the cement path.

The entire house needs re-wired, new panel, etc.

Oh, another thing in the news, we noticed one of the solar panels shattered. My wife called the guy who installed the panels over a decade ago. He said there’s only two ways that could have happened: someone either vandalized them with a rock, or something other fell from the sky (or a crow’s beak). I can’t believe it was a crow, after all this time, or vandals either because we’re on a dead-end and neighbors are friendly. Strange.

Cont.

Ferrule sized. Fit’s so good I had a hard time getting it back off for a photo.

Here shows the tools used.

I want to say, if you have files too worn out for metal, they still work great for fine wood removal, and sneaking up on snug fits like this.

This thing just came up to the patio. Looks like someone tried to make a poodle lion. Not done well either. Almost thinking this was a mean prank done on someone else’s cat.

The bench vise is block-mounted. I can move that and clamp it anywhere.

That unblocks a few avenues.

Now on to cutting pipe.

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Thanks. Never looked into his name before. Didn’t think Forstner bits were that old.

It’s clear they were flat-bottom bits, but now I realize Forstner is pretty much the monopoly on that meaning.

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Yeah but with square shanks? For hand braces? I’ve never seen them before.

I’d love to have some, but I doubt you can buy them.

A brace chuck adapter could probably be made for use with newer round shank Forstner bits.

Never seen that kind of brace bit before. Looks like a type of flat-bottom bit, maybe a little worn down.

I wonder if these were used for the stepped screw holes in saw totes.

I can’t wait to get back to making mine. (So many shop projects in limbo. Ahhh!)

#woodworking

Went looking for metal tube today to make a suitably-sized ferrule. The leg round at top is 34mm. I tried to find pipe that size with a 1–2mm wall. Nothing even close to that diameter. At home I remembered I had tubes left me in the hangar, and sure enough there was a length of galvanized pipe, 33,7mm with a 2,5mm wall. Solid. So, I’ll take off a band of wood on the leg (sneak up on it) and that should work.

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A couple pygmy goats would be enough, and cleaner.

The chariot awaits!

Supposedly the Cadillac of spiral mowers in these parts.

The herb is already taller than the recommended 10 cm, so it’s about to get proper field testing.