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Now that my Boring till is finally on the wall (Heh, it only took me a year), I have been thinking about how best to store and yes, display my boring bits... The boring till, on the right of the window. I have yet to decided on what is going up behind bench in front of it... I fully envisaged that the power bits storage would be different than the brace bits storage, but how, I did not know yet. This Week End in our travels, we passed conveniently by the large Wilmot flea market, and I spied this little rack, for one buck (Cdn $1, a Loonie)… It is a home made collector's spoons rack When I saw it, I thought, hum, wonder if it would fit my bits?? So you know I had to drag some into the kitchen to try it, don'tchuno (pronounced a la Ken :-) Some of the smaller spoons and gimlet bits, will somewhat fit.  Definitively would need larger holes Laid down to see how much height I have. About two (2) rows for the larger one would do. But I like how the longer ones on top are resting in...

Before we left end of July, I was starting to get some blisters from all the tree pruning I had been doing.  Jean made me stopped my yard work until my hands looks better. Thats right, real men dont wear gloves... :-) Well after all this time, I’m healed, lets make some new ones :-) We don't have the heat waves we had recently, but it is still pretty hot in the day time.  I usually work outside early in the morning before the sun heats up too fast. Past 1100 or whenever I am sweating buckets, it's time to stop and retreats inside to the air conditioned rooms. Everyday, I check after 2 PM, our Government website which shows which County are OK to burn today. I live in Kings County, by the Bay of Fundy. More branches to burn, getting there slowly. Sure am getting good uses of my new fire pit. Since our return, I managed to get four nites of burn so far, yesterday being my last one. I am slowly going around my lot line cleaning up the trees branches from the trees that were dropp...

This history is an intro to an upcomming series on these planes. In case you did not notice yet, they are everywhere, they shows up a lot on the antique tool circuit, flea markets, antique dealers, barn finds and what have you. Yes, they are plentiful out there, ever wonder why?? The three most used types of planes were; The bench planes, the grooving planes and the rabbet planes.  Used to prepare the wood surfaces and joinery. These relatively simple tools (all have straight blades) were made by the artisans during their apprenticeship period. Similarly, joiners would had been making specialized tools such as moulders for their work. Most of these tools would be found unsigned (no makers mark) but may have one or more owner’s stamp. Moulding planes as we know them today appeared in English listings (city or business directories) towards the end of the 1600s (17th century) Hollows & Rounds, Beads, Reeds and some Ovolo and Ogees. But of course they show up earlier, much earlier....

We are back from our trip to see all the grandkids and kids all at once, we went to a life celebration on a camping ground in Ontario. We rented a cabin, and so did one of our son, next door. Each cabins have a name and a theme, which kinda set the décor inside.  Our son Levi was in the Out of this world cabin (ET and other space creatures) we slept in the Dog house... YES, I can honestly say that we have reached a new milestones in our relationship, I slept in the dog house, well actually both Jean and Rudy also :-) The first night it was pretty cold, it dropped down to 11 C, Rudy appropriated all the blankets around him. Came morning, we had perhaps 5 in square of blankie left between Jean and I :-) The grand kids thought it was pretty funny that Grampa was going to sleep in the doghouse, I did not quite got the joke until I saw our cabin, sure enough it was called the Dog house. Yes, we slept in the dog house, Rudy felt right at home :-) On our way up and down took time to see m...