I said in the first post in the build series for this project that "I like making tools and I find it really satisfying to be able to use tools I've made on other projects". Someone on a woodworking forum I frequent later commented that he'd lost count of the number of home-made tools I'd used so far. Now that the project is finished I thought it would be quite interesting to go through the photos and list all the home-made tools I'd used in the making of this home-made tool. In approximate order of use:

  1. Bowling-ball mallet

  2. Retractable Scriber

  3. Sheet Metal Bender

  4. Welder's Third Hand

  5. Rotary Broach (home-made from a Hemingway Kit)
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  6. Heat Treatment Oven

  7. Tormek Support Bar for Bench Grinder

  8. Shooting Handle

  9. Block Plane

  10. Vertical Bandsaw Table

  11. Screwdriver

  12. Portable Workbench

  13. Spring Centre for alignment on rotary table (modified to have a straight shank since I wrote the linked web-page)

  14. Soft Jaws for Metalwork Lathe

  15. Woodturning Lathe

  16. Sanding Table for Wood Lathe
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  17. Chisel Handles (arguably doesn't count as a home-made tool but I thought I'd include it in the list anyway)

  18. Various 3D-printed jigs