Hello my fellow weavers of wood 🙂

A couple of weekends ago I was up north at may Parents house, my Dad had mentioned that he had my Granddads vise that I could have if I wanted, “yes of course” I said 🙂 In the end after many boxes rummaged though I ended up with lots and lots of great new (old) Ancestral “Houghton” tools and I am proper chuffed.

I’ve been meaning to post a few pics of them since I had them all out on my coffee table the night we came back from Yorkshire, but I kept forgetting.

I figures you fine folk would appreciate how happy I am to finally have a No4 Plane and especially one with such personal history to me.

Over the last few weeks I’ve sorted out the Plane, not 100% but enough that It works and cuts well and looks cleaner than it was, if not the perfect look I would like!

We moved into this house just under a month ago so I haven’t had much time to do any real work, I do though have half a 12×10′ shed to use as a workshop (the other half is stuff and bikes (one of my (many….) other passions)). So as soon as I have managed to organise my tools I will be making a start on my ver own Paul Sellers bench 🙂 I can’t wait, although I am going to need to acquire some clamps…

Anyway here are a few pics of my tool haul and what the plane looks like now after many hours of cleaning.

Have fun

Simon

PS when I opened all those green tins of bits and bobs it smelled just like my Granddads workshop, it took me back 30 years as I stood their in awe of all the strange stuff, I remember being very impressed with his grinding wheel and all the sparks he could make!

PPS some of the tools were also my Great Granddads tools too!