Various miscellaneous pictures. Click the images below for larger versions.

Some machines that belonged to SWMBO's grandfather. Note the jack used to raise/lower the table.

My first Unisaw. A coveted four footer.

Big-uns alley. A fun place to hang out.

Cleaning a drill press column on the metal lathe.

Some excessively large toys that followed me home.

In a museum, my favourite post drill configuration I've come across.

In a museum, an automatic band saw blade setter. Crank the handle and the hammers pull back, the blade feeds forward, and the hammer releases. I'd really like my own one of these for the co**ection.

In a museum. A handy worker. These are common in Australia, although they're usually broken.

Guard design idea for my Eilbeck band saw.

The British have their own style when it comes to wrenches.

An old Peerless planer. Or the parts that used to be one. The guy wanted to swap it for $850 worth of metal lathe. I passed.

These two were destined for the auction block, but somehow stowed away on the container and made their way to the US. They're for sale if you're interested.

Its important to have you're tools well organised. My whole shop looked a bit that way for a while.

Bob Vaughan and some goofy looking bastard standing in front of my shop.

I purchased this for no good reason at all, other than I liked the look of it and the price. I had zero need for it and had no time for the restoration it deserves, so I passed it on to fellow OWWMer Tom Lorelle. From talking with Tom, he was already well on his way down the slippery slope before this.

Hauling home a few motors. I had these freighted on a pallet to work and the folks there though I was a little strange.


Shop made 7.5HP rotary phase converter. Based on a kit purchased from eBay, I added a NOS Marathon TENV motor for the idler, NOS Cutler Hammer size 2 NEMA starter, Shaefer Power Panel's enclosure and various caps and other small items. from the local surplus store. Self adhesive sheet rubber was added to the base of the ilder motor and she runs real smooth...

Pulleys on a bench.

Restoration of a beat up old starter can.

Hanging out with Chris Wilson pick up a nice 16" Newman jointer. It is time consuming, dangerous work probably best left to the pros with the right equipment.

Restoration of a couple of vices purchased from a friend. My daughter did much of the work on her gold one.

Creation of a couple of sets of shelves over many, many weekends. You can see the reorganized workshop here.

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