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Hi all,
I am a science teacher and a general builder and I am hoping to spend my retirement years in the shed. I have had a lifelong interest in tools, especially making my own. Problem is, I have never documented any of them. This will change, hopefully. Currently I am flat out renovating my own house as well as renovating my church, and with the public speaking I am doing all over the place, I haven't been able to spend much time in the shed.
Every blessing.
Mosquitochalkie
Hi Mosquitochalkie,
Welcome! :welcome:
What sort of homemade tools have you built along the way?
Are you working on anything currently, perhaps to assist with one of your renovation projects?
Ken
Thanks for the welcome Ken. Many years ago I built a saw bench with a micro-incrementing fence which served me well for about 15 years in the building trade. I recently dismantled it and bought a professionally built replacement. A cart for my MIG welder which I used to convert a public transport bus into a motor home. We lived in the motor home, Myrtle the turtle, for 17 years, travelling Australia as an itinerant teacher and preacher. I have also built a welding/cutting table, a workbench, a trailer with cage, a fully enclosed small trailer for transporting stuff in wet weather, a fully enclosed car trailer, toolboxes, small hand tools for specialist jobs, a large saw for cutting firewood, a slide hammer Canadian splitter, an upright panel saw, an air powered paper log compressor, a sack truck, a mobile timber storage rack, furniture moving dollies, a continuous hot water heater and storage unit for camping, and lots of other stuff I can't think of right now.
I don't have anything on the go at the moment but I am intending to make some mobile bases for some of my larger tools so I can move them around the shed easily. I have been searching the web for ideas. The web is such a fabulous goldmine of ideas, I wish I had it 40 years ago.
I hope that you and yours are well and thanks again for your welcome.
Every blessing.
Peter
Hi Peter - welcome to HomemadeTools.net :welcome:
Very interesting work, I'll be keeping an eye out for your builds. :)