Tools for Working Wood

Two smooth planes from Randle Holme's "Academy of Armory" (1688) The first one is as a smooth plane. The second one is referred to as a smooth plane of a different style - one with a "straight flat sole". Implying of course that the first one is both more common, and doesn't have a flat sole. For more details see Joel's blog on "17th Century Smooth Plane Design" #planemaking #handtools #antiquetools, #academyofarmory #handplanes #planes #smoothplanes #antiquetools #woodworkingtools

These are various prototypes on how we arrived at our spoon maker's drawknife. After some basic discussions on what we thought are the features we wanted we 3D printed several models. Then we gave them to people to look at and have a sense of how they worked. They sort of could cut basswood but not much else. The first attempt on the left top the center of rotation was wrong. And it was hard to handle. The second version was right . Easy, nimble, and narrow for a lot of actio...n. Then we had to make one for real. We thought that waterjet cutting would save us some money. First the waterjet guy read the drawings wrong and got the scale wrong. It was nice but big . Sort of what you hang out on a store if you sold draw knives for spoon makers in the 18th-century . The second waterjet model was the right size but the material was wrong , he just wanted to make sure he got the size right. Then we decided to do everything in house . The first prototypes were just mild steel to see if the tooling worked and we glued the steel to a piece of aluminum. The next prototype was actually out of 01, and we hardened it and did everything else correctly. That led to a small fixture which we could do production work, just not a lot of it. This gave us finished drawknives which we are currently selling . We're currently manufacturing a larger fixture so we can increase production. Everything is being done in-house. #spooncarving #spoonmaker #woodworking #drawknife #drawknivesandspokeshaves #luthiery #luthiertools #luthiers #carving #gramercytools #Drawknife See more

This is our new Gramercy Tools Spoonmaker’s Drawknife. It’s based on a drawknife found in thousand-year-old Saxon tomb, but we tweaked it to make it great for small work. It’s nimble and narrow, and the handles won’t get in the way. #spooncarving #woodworking #gramercytools #carvingtools #carving #drawknife #Drawknife #drawknivesandspokeshaves

They're back! #them