Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Need very old (but useable) woodworking tools
Davd
>I'm conducting a series of workshops for youth 14-18 this summer on the subject of carpentry in the New Testament. To help bring this alive for the kids and to give them a chance to actually use some old tools to build something, I would really like to find some old tools (saws, drills, planes, etc.) that don't cost hundreds of dollars. Does any one know of any resources I might tap into?
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Phil Joines Krum,TX
>How's you tool making ability? Some of the early stuf wouldn't be hadr to do.
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Luke Herzberg
>David, what sort of work do you have in mind? Displaying the tools? Using the tools? Getting something built with them? Are you trying to represent historically accurate New Testament tools, or just use hand tools to recreate the feel of "this work was done by hand, not machines"?
- Luke
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Ernie Miller
>Tell us more of what you have in mind. what are you thinking about building how much time do they have? are you making things for the kids them selves or are you think about stuff for other people or comunitity projects? for cub scout projects younger kids I have made up bird house kits that they just assimble do to time constraints and the risjk of cutting them selves with saws and such. some even have predrilled nail holes. older kids can do more them selves but get board easier and turn to horse play. Even if you can keep them on task you will also need some sort of benches or saw horses to work on. also what do you consider very old?
...and how authentic?
Ellis Walentine
>I must say I have very little knowledge of the kinds of tools they had 2,000 years ago, but I'm imagining adzes, knives, maybe some kind of primitive froes, possibly bow drills of some sort. If you could cobble up some replicas of the truly ancient tools and figure out how to use them, it might make your presentation that much more meaningful. Tools that are only a couple hundred years old are much more refined by comparison.
Sounds like a nifty project.
Ellis Walentine, Host
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joel -( tools for working wood)
>Get a copy of a new book: "Roman woodworking"
It will tell you everything you need to know. As for getting the actual tool - nothing a decent blacksmith cou;d not make.
You might be surprised
Neal in San Jose
>In the museum in Naples that houses the artifacts found at Pompeii, there are several tools, including an IRON plane. No screw depth adjuster, but if you put it next to a contemporary LN, you would immediately see the roots. That's from 67 AD.
I think the tools and techniques from Roman times were a lot more sophisticated than we give them credit for. They didn't build all those beautiful and complicated structures like aquaducts that ran for hundreds of miles accurate to fractions of an inch with a rock on a stick. True, they didn't understand metalurgy well, but they had figured out Phi and a lot of important engineering principles. I think using contemporary hand tools like brace and bits , chisels, saws, molding planes, etc. wouldn't be that far off the mark. Thanks for the lead on the book, Joel. I'm going to have to check that out.
Neal