Spanish flea market finds & other stuff that might be of interest!

Maybe I have a different player or something but it didn't show after the Woodsman song for me. Thanks anyway, cool song!

Thank you Miller 72, it's nice to hear you like this stuff, sometimes after a while having made a few posts with no replies I do wonder if anyone's interested so it's good to know. I do see a bit of more modern stuff but it's the rusty lumps in the bottom of old boxes I'm on the lookout for!

Thanks Jake, sorry about the difficulty in seeing the post, the previous page 19 was very picture heavy as well. Hopefully now being near the top of a page you'll have it easier for a while!
Off topic, but I wonder if anyone can tell me if putting images in the "spoiler" thing so you have to click to open an image would make a page easier to load for slower connections? Just a thought.
The black & white image of different welding methods is still showing on Page5, post number 84 (albeit with the lovely big "Photbucket" water mark they were so kind to vandalize everyone's images with when folks wouldn't pay the stupid rates they wanted).

And today I picked up a Brades Criterion, pictured below after a quick wire wheel to read the name. And what I'm guessing is a Blacksmiths hot drift, it's made of wrought iron & looks particularly old

 

The Brades cheeks have a lot of shape! I'll post some images when it's cleaned up.

Some images of the lovely hammer head from post 375 after some magic treatment to show the fabulous wrought iron "grain".

 

It is indeed, it's great when the "grain" can be shown, not always the case like the recently cleaned stuff below, nothing extraordinary except for the two bits of wrought bar pulled from a crumbling wall on a friends farm that have some good grain.


Here's something I've not seen before, a drain spade I picked up at the weekend, the holes in the encrusted cement had me baffled.......


Untill I cleaned it up & found they were for broken copper rivets! It was surprisingly solid even though only one copper rivet needed drilling out along with the more normal two steel ones through the dry split handle.
Where the copper rivets had broken half has stayed in the spade.


From the other side. It's going to look cool with new copper rivets & handle.


Another great makers mark though haven't found much out about "Hansa".


And another Estwing in a terrible state with the steel end plate missing. Similar to the larger one rehandled in post 368.


1963........


Got it cleaned up now so time to start cutting & punching leather....

 

I wish I had a magic formula but alas no, this one seemed a bit powdery & did wire wheel off eventually but another one recently was really difficult, I tried soaking it in a ferric chloride solution & that didn't work, in the end I got as much off as possible by shocking it with a hammer then used a stiff wire knot brush in an angle grinder. If anyone has a better way I'm all ears.
It's funny, the difference between washing a tool with a bit of water while the cement hasn't gone off & what happens when you don't..................


Anyway, here's the latest attempt at a stacked leather handle, I used some thicker hide this time & made a brass end plate. Pictured with the heavier one from post 368.

Both cold blued.


And another nice block plane I picked up today, I've not seen one with a threaded adjuster on the chip breaker before though it does explain the shape of irons I've seen on other planes used without the adjuster.


Peugeot? The lions indicate that, but within shields? A newer mark? Anyone know?


And on the chip breaker.




The iron looks as though it's never seen a stone, just the factory grinding marks which is odd because it's definitely seen some use as there are hammer marks on the wood where it's been tapped to adjust.... Should be a nice one to use with a sharpen.

 

@Ernest DuBois, I understand why the slot is machined for the more usual chip breaker set up, the difference with this one is a small protrusion at the top of the hole to locate in the top of the adjustment screw, it's not modified but factory.
Somewhere I have a plane with the same iron but no adjuster that I'll dig out & photograph, I wondered what the protrusion was for, now I know.
This isn't a plane assembled from parts but a Peugeot model, thankfully I've found images & a description of another one also without a honed blade! A bit better condition than mine & different Peugeot marks, maybe older. - https://offgrid-woodbutcher.blogspot.com/2019/12/peugeot-frere-plane.html?m=1
I assume one is supposed to use a nail or something to make adjustments, when the iron & chip breaker isn't wedged up it's easy to move simple with finger & thumb.
I can't imagine what, if any advantage this type of adjuster has?

 

I used my hatchet today to rough shape some timber & also tried a style of adze I haven't used before. This one I found in Portugal recently, a Jaguar brand that seems to have been popular in the past, I have two more slightly different ones found in Spain but haven't used them yet.
In Portugal they call this an Enxó, in Spain an Azuela, the radius of the blade is made to be correct when pivoted from the elbow......







At first it felt very strange after being used to having more of a handle on a cutting tool but given a little time I stated to get a little more used to it. Below are a couple of videos of them in use.

In Portugal shaping rafter ends in a typical Portuguese/Spanish style (comparison between new & old method) Skip to 3:00.


South America making a dug out canoe, skip to 18:00.


I couldn't make out the name on my blade.....


Then looking at it one day I realised I had bought a small planishing hammer head in Portugal over 20 years ago & it clicked...


Both being used to create this......


Definitely not fine woodworking , it's moved on a bit since this image so I'll post an image when finished to prove it's not a pile of fire wood........

 

While trying to find out more about the unusual "Enxó" Adze online I came across these images of three sold by an auction house. Wow!







Sadly not much info about them. I imagine they were carved by someone for the fun of making a unique item rather than being tools to use, especially considering the Lion's tail in the last image!

 

And to prove it's not fire wood, carved with my hatchet & nearing completion. My next door neighbor was near so I asked her to give it a sense of scale.



Photo's to explain what it is soon.........

 

Yes, many images on here would benefit by it.

Back to February post 320/321, I thought some Holly I'd turned for a chisel handle had changed colour a little, well @Square_peg was correct in that it stays white & doesn't change.
The smaller of the two below hasn't been touched since then & hasn't changed, either grubby hands or oiling (can't remember if I did) is responsible for the larger one's colour.



I'm currently making two more from Oak so wanted to look at these to copy the shape I like.

 

Thank you @Old Axeman, the tree this Holly came from was about 16" & probably the toughest logs I've ever split! It's nice stuff to work though.

Today a couple more Block planes came along....... with two more nice marks.



I haven't seen this Peugeot stamp before.



And a new one to me "Hearnshaw Bros".