I looked for a thread like this and found none. I hope it isn't redundant.
Most woodworkers that I know have a tool under a bench or behind a saw somewhere that is basically crap yet they hang on to it with hopes of revival. Anybody else own up to harboring an ugly bench critter?
Mine is a planer that I found at a mill estate sale about thirty years ago. It is(was) an industrial-grade piece at one time. It has no brand and has more iron in it than all my other tools combined. At one point I had a pipe dream about disassembling it and reassembling it as a lathe using the heavy-weight drum and a treadle-like foot action device I found but once I awoke I forget the details. I have it hooked up and it gets used as a shaper once in awhile but if someone walked off with it I wouldn't report the loss. Besides, they wouldn't get far.
Any others?
TonyM
Most woodworkers that I know have a tool under a bench or behind a saw somewhere that is basically crap yet they hang on to it with hopes of revival. Anybody else own up to harboring an ugly bench critter?
Mine is a planer that I found at a mill estate sale about thirty years ago. It is(was) an industrial-grade piece at one time. It has no brand and has more iron in it than all my other tools combined. At one point I had a pipe dream about disassembling it and reassembling it as a lathe using the heavy-weight drum and a treadle-like foot action device I found but once I awoke I forget the details. I have it hooked up and it gets used as a shaper once in awhile but if someone walked off with it I wouldn't report the loss. Besides, they wouldn't get far.
Any others?
TonyM