Planes

Not the things that fly, but the better kind. These two were from that one garage sale... (are you tired of hearing about it yet?) Block plane, then No. 4 plane.

The smudges and fingerprints on the metal show up quite a bit, so I'll have to remember to wipe shiny things clean. I also had to clone out some smudges on the paper they were sitting on.

Testing the light tent

So I put some of my new tools and other stuff in the tent and shot at them with my camera a bit.

Clip clip

Me with my new cheap remote shutter button

Making a light tent

I had been meaning to make one of these for a while, but just got around to it today. It's supposed to make a nice even light on whatever you put into it. This isn't my idea, but this is how I did it.

Cut holes in the sides

Reenforce with duct tape

Put cloth or something over some of the holes

Shine lights at it

Put things inside and take pictures of the things you just put inside

 I'll put some pictures later of some of my garage sale finds photographed in here.

A few plants

The first one is a thing on the end of a pine tree branch. I had tried to photograph it before, but the focus was off, so I tried again. The second one is a flower I saw while on a walk.

Hespersis matronalis (Dame's Rocket), an invasive species, but nice looking nonetheless.

My planes

 Today I leave to Finland, and this is the first of the automatically posted posts. The ones for the next few weeks will have been written ahead of time. Hopefully this works.

Another garage sale post... this time featuring my two new Stanley planes. One is a block plane of sorts, the other is a No. 4 (smoothing) plane. The other one that I have is a No. 5 1/2 jack plane. I don't count the junky Buck Bros plane, it hardly works.
Anyways, I took them apart and cleaned them. There is still a bit to do, but at least they are clean now. I put the brass tote and knob screws in the drill press and sanded and polished the nicks out. The irons still need to be sharpened, I think I'll wait and get a extra coarse diamond stone, my other stuff doesn't quite cut it (well it goes really slowly, I spent probably an hour on one blade and it still wasn't done).

All the parts ready for cleaning

After cleaning and reassembly. The two rods are from the 5 1/2 jack plane, which was already cleaned. I just took out the brass screws and shined them up. :-)

The adjustment screw and frog adjustment screw.

 What's left to do: Sharpen the irons, flatten the soles, and maybe refinish the tote and knob on the No. 4.

One more post before I go...

I have a bit of extra time today, so I decided to put some more pictures up. My memory card came in the mail just in the nick of time, so I decided to test it out. It worked.

The peonies are opening up

The small bee was quite small, I was actually taking a picture of the flower and then noticed it was there.
Well tomorrow I leave, can't wait!

I will be leaving for 3 weeks to Finland on Friday, so I have been making a bunch of posts. I'm going to try to have them scheduled to post on their own, which should work. It will be interesting to see if it works.

Here's a few more from when I went camping.

Breakfast