Mine are ready to ship. They will be picked up tomorrow. Sorry for the delay/silence. Just bought a house, moving shop, etc. Busy week, but I made time to finish this swap before it was too late. Hope my person enjoys their CENSORED.

 

More beautiful tools received! How did you do that labeling TerryD?
Mine shipped out today. AND I got these Paul Sellers style dove tail markers made by JJohnston!

At first I thought the pieces were glued or laminated together. Then I realized each piece was sawn from a solid block. I cannot saw a straight line so these are incredible to me. Thank you Jeff. These will definitely get used!

 

Sorry I've been down today with a stomach bug.. man these tools are just awesome to say the least..

 

Received a message from ShaneA indicating that he has received the beam compass/level that I sent him Far cry from the wonderful tools presented thus far but here it is…

 

You're welcome, Candy, and those are some flattering pictures. To be honest, the only critical saw cuts are the crosscuts that form the shoulders. To remove all the thickness at the cheeks, I started with a longer block, made the shoulder and partial-depth end cuts, set the piece on edge, and (carefully, I learned quickly) chiseled downward, across the grain. Then I cleaned up with a router plane riding on the original high spots, then separated them with crosscuts.

 

Posting to get to the bottom. Yo whats the tagline for see all the projects?

 

Hey yall I received a beautiful Square in the mail !!!!

I will take some pics tonight to post tomorrow.

Also Mine is heading North into Canada as we speak….

All the beautiful tools so far I hope mine don't let the recipient down

 

Candy and anyone else interested, the labeling process is really quite simple.

What you need:
A laser printer or access to a copier that uses toner (not ink) (I have a laser printer)
A heat source hot enough to gently melt the toner into the wood (but not so hot it burns the paper or wood) I first tried with an older clothes iron I have used for edge banding but that didn't work too well. I carefully used a flat iron on my wood burner.

The process:

Setup your text or image to transfer (I used MS word and word art to reverse the text) You want a mirror image on the paper because this is direct transfer process.

Adjust the printer or copier to use heavy toner (Lots of Toner deposited onto the paper) I used a Bold Font to make sure plenty of toner would be laid onto the paper

Print (I set up my word file to have multiple copies of the same text for practice and redo.)

Cut out the text or image you want transferred

tape into position on your piece. I strongly recommend a practice piece with the same species and finish level as the final piece. This should be on raw wood no finish applied, the idea here is to transfer the toner onto the wood fibers.

Heat up your heat source and apply to the transfer. Be careful not to burn the paper or project. Again, practice, practice, practice.

Let the piece cool.

Peel back the paper and discard the transfer is complete.

What do I do if I make a mistake:

Have no fear, your project is not ruined (unless it caught on fire) Gently sand or scrape the toner from the wood and start over.

This is largely a trial and error process. Some scroll sawyers use this process to transfer complex designs to their project for scroll work.

The 2 tricks I have figured out are the amount of toner laid onto the paper and the heat doing the transfer. In both cases, the more the better. The paper was gently browned when I did this transfer.

 

Maur - Jordan has asked that all of them be tagged with "toolswap2014"

 

Thanks for the info TerryD!

 

Mine is in the mail. They said Friday delivery.
Jim

 

Thanks, Terry, I've used heat transfer before wood burning, too, just didn't wanna risk it after all my laminations!

WOW, Look what I nabbed at the post office today…

A beam compass from DonW that is sweet as pie! Cherry, that is. Shop built trammels from cherry, bloodwood, and roofing screws. Also an infilled brass knob to allow the use of a pencil at one end. Awesome! ( Although I switched out the girly pencil for a LV since this tool is so nice! )

Been wanting one of these for a while…thanks, Don! Nice craftsmanship and engineering!

Also, A great bench knife with steel that passes all the length of the handle…means a lot to another knife maker! I think the wood is Bubinga? Love it after 30 seconds since it doesn't roll like my lathe handles do.

 

Strong tool making skills on display here. Mixed emotions here-sad that I didn't sign up; glad that I didn't sign up. I think Terry Downing summed up the purpose of the swap very well. I've done two swaps so far, and I am impressed with the two items I've gotten (marking gauge and hand plane).

Thanks for sharing your projects.

 

Terry! You lucky dog you! That is a great looking compass and from the one and only DonW as well! I think the pink suits it fine though ;-)

 

Thanks Terry. I think sending a Marking knife to a knife maker is pretty gutsy. It was a little intimidating, but I really figured the post office would lose it anyhow. I thought being being from Alabama, with the blue haired pose (wait, that wasn't you was it?) and all the pink pencil would fit.

Actually I had an awl I thought was ready to go, but i just didn't have time to finish it.

 

Don, after I put my reading glasses on, I noticed the pink pencil had what looks like the lil black martian from Bugs Bunny on it…cool! I put it on my stark black standard compass and it rocks! LOL.

I love the knife. Got dozens, but I love the ones that speak to me…your's speaks outloud. Planer blade?

And I've got to add some curved molding to my tool chest or something, so I can use that beam…

 

It is an old planer blade Terry. I'm glad you like the compass. I made 2

 

Is there going to be another swap?

 

What is left to make?

 

^grease pots, bench dogs or planing stops, bench hooks, plane shooting boards, planishing hammers. mallets re-visited, knives, knives, knives, boxes for storage ( glasses! ), specialty drivers ( split nut ), planes re-visited, small vices, vintage tools…let's see…what else do I already have in progress? LOL

 

^ We can pick another category from Jordan's list above.

 

What was the runner up for this swap? I think grease pots were a pretty strong candidate for this one iirc.

 

Yea i think it was Grease Pots

 

oh and scratch stocks and card scrapers are also options that have been discussed.

 

Isn't a card scraper just a piece of metal? Not too much on the woodworking side..