Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Re: Buyers remorse (long)
Ernie Miller Topeka
>how about an archival list including pictures? I think it would be of benifet to have this information available. it would also be nice to have info on the original owner if possable. As more of the boxes get broke up and sold this info is being lost for ever.
Re: cam lock guage
Jack Guzman from Maine
>I hadn't intended to mean that he invented the tool,just that the one he had on display was an example of one he designed and taught how to build.I realize there's not too much new out there when it cmes to hand tools. If there's a need for it,chances are someone else thought of it before.---Jack
Re: Buyers remorse (long)
Dean Lapinel
>I'd be more than happy to do that but wouldn't that take up too much space on this board?
Is that allowed?
Dean
No problem.
Dan Donaldson
>It might also be a good candidate for an article. Pictures, inventory list, and any other info that might be of interest.
Re: No problem.
Dean Lapinel
>Best to post pics one at a time?
Dean
Re: No problem.
Dan Donaldson
>Thinking more about it, since it would have multiple pictures, why don't you take the pictures and write some text to go with them and send it to Garrett and we can make an article out of it. That would be better for a couple of reasons. First of all, if it is put on the board, it will scroll off pretty fast, limiting the number of people that will get to see it. The second reason is that it is difficult to post multiple pictures and keep the theme together unless you have your own website to link to. An article will not scroll away, and it can be organized to make a nice presentation. You would not have to try to make it look pretty, just get the pics (and in this case, don't worry about how big the pictures are. The bigger the better. We can edit them down to manageable size ;-)and the text. Garrett would make it look nice and then we can code it up and post it. If you do it this way, we can put a tickler here on the board when it goes up, and it will stay around for easy future reference. Sounds like a nice article to me.
If you want to post it on the boards, then you would have to make a separate post for each picture and get the pics below 40K. There is no problem if you want to do this, but it is a bit more permanent and easier for you as an article.
Re: Sooo?
Todd Hughes
>This type of float was used by gun stock makers to fit the barrel into the fore arm. Think brownells still sells them. Is amazing the different stuff that acumalates in old tool chests ! .....Todd
Re: Sooo?
Dean Lapinel
>Thanks for that info Todd,
This fellow also had quite a bit of leather working tools and some things I haven't figured out yet.
Re: Sooo?
Skip in Falls Church
>Soooo, what kind of leather working tools.
Skip (unable to resist asking)
Re: cam lock guage *LINK*
Alice Frampton, UK
>Salaman is silent on names, but one is shown among the home-made gauges. I also ran across the link below while looking for something else.
Cheers, Alf
Cam Gauge
Re: cam lock guage
Dean Lapinel
>That link is the right idea. This is the real thing though :)
Re: cam lock guage
Jim Crammond in Monroe, Mi.
>Dean,
Your gage was manufactured by Star Tool Company of Middleton, Conn. as you stated. The design was patented in the U.S. by Wessel Brodhead on April 21, 1868. Another inventor, _ Carris was also granted a patent for the same design May 7, 1901. The gages manufactured under this patent have a round fence instead of octagonal.
Star Tool Co. made an assortment of very nice quality marking tools for a short period of time in the 1870's and 1880's. Their bevel gages, try squares and panel gages are all well made. They made several models of marking and mortise gages of different types of wood.
Jim
Re: cam lock guage
Dean Lapinel
>Hi Jim,
Thanks for the information. Do you have a reference with photos of other star tools?
Thanks,
Dean
Re: rarity
paul womack
>I'm not a museum/collector type, so my knowledge base is narrow.
That being said, I've only ever seen craftsman made cam-gauges, and I've never seen a "cam" mortise gauge.
Just a data-point.
BugBear
Re: cam lock guage
Jim Crammond in Monroe, Mi.
>Dean,
Milt Batcheler(sp) has written a book about marking gages that has a small section about Star Tool. That is the only place I've seen much information about them. There is a period ad for Star in the book that illustrates several of the different things they manufactured.
I have several of their tools and once you see one, they are pretty distinctive so they become easy to spot.
If you'd like, I'll take some pictures and e-mail them to you.
Jim
Re: cam lock guage
Dean Lapinel
>Jim,
I would be thrilled to get pics with other star tools. Thanks so much for the offer!
Dean Lapinel
Re: cam lock guage
Jim Crammond in Monroe, Mi.
>Dean,
I won't be able to get to it tonight, but I'll take some pictures and send them to you over the weekend.
Jim