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What’s the next best thing to visiting Keith Rucker’s shop in Georgia or Clarke

What’s the next best thing to visiting Keith Rucker’s shop in Georgia or Clarke Easterling’s foundry in Mississippi? Getting Keith and Clark to visit MY shop in Ohio!

What an honor it was to have @vintagemachinery and @clarkeeasterling67 stop by. They were passing through the Cleveland area and I was able to arrange a tour for them of the @midwestrailwaypreservation down at the old B&O roundhouse. While they were here, they accepted my invitation to see my small shop and how Keith has been an inspiration to me on my journey to being a machinist. I cannot thank them enough!

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I have been collecting antique machinists tool chests for a short while. Came ac

I have been collecting antique machinists tool chests for a short while. Came across this one at an auction and just had to have it. It’s a Union Tool Chest Works Style “G”, circa 1917. Did a minor cleanup on it. A little Murphy’s oil soap, some finish restorer and bees wax to protect it, at least from further damage. This is not a full restoration, as I think that would be more involved than I am prepared to handle. The rear veneer was 50% peeled off and I had to glue it all back down. Some previous steward of it decided to drill the centers of the pulls and use a nut and bolt to hold them on the drawer fronts, instead of just the 3 nails. Oh well. It cleaned up nice enough. I gave it to my wife to use as storage for her art markers.

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Latest auction acquisitions! All need some level of work. I typically don’t do m

Latest auction acquisitions! All need some level of work. I typically don’t do more than a clean up and refinish.

The first @gerstnerusa might need a little more love than that. But should clean up nice. The second Gerstner is not quite a basket case, but is pretty close. I will likely part that out. Don’t want to have to spend a bunch of time, effort and money tracking down a lid and drawers. Having them made is outside of the budget. The other one has a “Freyman Tool Company” badge on it but I suspect that was not the manufacturer. Maybe a Union? That one might end up on my wife’s desk to store her markers and pens.

They are all full of tools, too. Some I will keep. Going to take me a while to get though all this!

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