Oldtoolsniper

Oil resists glue. Test what you are doing first. Contact cement won't stick to oily surfaces. When making a countertop the adhesive of choice is red can weld bond contact cement. Oil on the substrate means you get to make a new countertop because the glue WILL fail. Test it, test it, test it!

Impressive!

Made another out of Bocote in the style of the tool handles on most of my tools.

I made this after seeing Rawcustoms post on making a new Awl blade holder. I used his idea for the blade holder and bought the double collet pin vise from EBay. I don't make my own blades, I buy them. The handle is turned out of Cocobolo with a brass ferrule turned to flush itself with the Cocobolo. The business end of course is the pin vise. I struggled with how to handle the reference point on the handle. I've read where folks sand down a flat spot for reference. That would serve to keep the handle from rolling around too. You would not have to look either but in my case I've been sewn back together enough to know I'm not real found of that. I prefer to watch myself stab myself so I went with an orientation inlay so I have to watch. The inlay is Ivory from a late 1800's piano that went to the scrap yard, I harvested the keys and soaked the ivories off to use as inlays. Figuring out how to cut the ivory was interesting to say the least. I am about three weeks into leather work and this site has helped me greatly. What drove me to leather work is unprotected sharp pointy things. My friends have a hard time not cutting themselves when they visit. I warn them if it's meant to be sharp and I own it, well it's sharp. I'm forced to either make sheaths for my sharp pointy things or get new friends. I see it this way, if you pick it up, unsnap the sheath strap, pull it out of the sheath and proceed to insert the sharp pointy thing into you body all by yourself you must have wanted it there. Thank you all for helping to protect my friends from themselves.

Changing things over the years is quite common. One example that comes to mind is Stanley wood planes, during WWII they stopped using brass because it was needed to make shell casings. They switched over to a black Bakelite type of stuff and after the war went back to brass. The parts interchange but they also give you a history lesson if one takes the time to learn it. There are I believe 19 variations through the years on the common number 5 plane. A problem you run into is they turned thier own threads on everything. You can't get placement parts at Home Depot, the thread pitch will be wrong and forcing it will put that tool in the scrap yard. That being said when you see a stanley plane with a bright shinny new screw in it your best option is to leave it where you see it. I enjoy old tools and working on them, they were meant to be used and I use them. I learned to sharpen tools and that's why I'm leaning leather work. My friends have not learned that if I own it and it is supposed to be sharp, it's sharp. Putting the sharp pointy things in leather sheaths keeps the rust off my tools, apparently blood has a high salt content in it. There is a huge difference in quality between the old stuff and the new stuff. Rust is really rust, it's not patina dispite what the EBay ad says.