Tag: Tools
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Build me A Hobby Room!
I have just won Lotto. My ticket in the 450 Million Dollar Supergreed Draw Of The Millenium has won first prize and I am the only one in Australia who got it. All week long dump trucks have been backing up to the front lawn and tipping wads of $ 100 notes onto it. Now…
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The Suitcasers
Do you remember seeing a 1960’s George Peppard movie called ” The Carpetbaggers ” ? A rough sketch of Howard Hughes and quite racy at the time. It’s title was taken from the scornful name given to Northern exploiters who flooded into the American South after the Civil War. Conmen, graspers, and get-rich-quick merchants…rather in…
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Heavier Than You Need To Make It
And lighter than you can lift… Have a look at the tools in your workshop – whatever your shop produces. It doesn’t matter whether it is turning out toy airplanes or plate armour ( and I know workshops that do just that…), there are tools there that are built like a rolling mill in Henry…
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The Rack And The Gallows
If you are expecting Torquemada I must disappoint you – I reserve those sentiments for my ” Here All Week ” column. See below. The rack I refer to is my new Little Workshop plane jig. It is made by Scrap Bin Pty Ltd and has three adjustable plane rests as supplied. You can get…
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A Spectacular Sunday’s Discovery
For several years I have tried to get to the model Car Sunday, but failed – yesterday I succeeded and found a very interesting product made by a local craftsman. The product is a range of portable modelling boxes and the maker Garrett McIntyre from Collie in Western Australia. His basic aim was to make…
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Ustar
Never heard of ’em? I never did until I started patronising Hobbytech out in Myaree. Then I found an increasing number of products from this Taiwanese firm on their tool and material shelves. I experimented with a few things, then bought more. Not every product was world-beating, but they were all workable, and some were actually…
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Faith and Begorrah…
” Tis a green jig. It must be Irish. ” Well, ’tis green now but it’s about to become feldgrau and then olive drab, and then azure blue in patches. And then you can assign whatever nationality you want to it. It’s Mk III painting jig – the foamboard structure upon which I hang the…
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The Importance Of Putting Away Your Too s
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of putting away your too s after you use them. Any workshop, whether it be big or sma wi deteriorate into a mae strom of confusion if you just eave your too s ying about after you have finished with them. I am not a fan of those organised…
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The Junkman Cometh
And is damned proud of it, at his age. Now back to the Little Workshop. All junk is not junk. Some junk is junque – witness the sort of things that twee secondhand shops import from Pakistan and sell as genuine. Junque indeed. Some junk is material that is just resting between engagements. The box…
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The Little Workshop – When A Hunch Pays Off
I rarely go downtown these days unless it is to haunt the bookstore or check up on the branch of the camera shop I used to work for. The rest of the shops are filled with wonderful things that I don’t want and the streets are filled with people I wish to avoid. But there…
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