After my uncle and grandmother had both passed we eventually had to clear my grandmother's property. 

Down the garden was a garage and some outbuildings that my grandfather had built and it was like a time capsule down there, he'd been dead since before I was even born. After WW2 he did general building work and joinery, that old manual morticer must've pre-dated him though. 

If I'd have had shop space the Multico planer thicknesser could've been cleaned up and used, he'd had it from new and the original invoice listed the sliding tenon/shoulder attachment and mortice attachment, I didn't even know you could cut mortices with a planer thicknesser but it was a separate table and morticer that bolted to the side and was powered via the planer motor rather than the planer blades playing any part in the operation. Old school dudes liked their attachments ~think ShopSmith. 

Everything got cleared eventually, some stuff went in a big skip, anything unwanted that was metal got put out for scrap, some stuff was sold on Ebay, a bloke came for the rusty old manual morticer and said he was going to make a table out of it, I didn't really need any of it and neither would I have had anywhere to put it but I did salvage an old Parkinson Model F vice that has a screw disengage like a half nut on a lathe carriage, I've got a Yost bolted to a 10mm thick steeltop workbench but still use the old vice for other stuff. 

#tools #woodwork 



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