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Now, in the modern world, technologies and manufacture are very developed.
We can buy the advanced power tools, lathes, routers etc...
But how early makers did without an electricity and technologies?
Some pics can give us the partial answer to this question.
Probably, someone will find in them new ideas for the workshop.
(Then don't forget will share them )

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From the book "Doctrine of handy - works" of 1703, by Joseph Maxon -

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From other sources -

Very early images:








Galileo telescope tools -


Some people build early machine tools until now -

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Other interesting pictures -

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Great photo's yet again Sergy. Thanks for posting. I enjoy seeing them.

Today I turned up some spacers on my ancient American lathe, sliced some bracings on my beautiful ol' German cast iron typographer's sliding table saw, then I was at a mate's making new blade guides for my bandsaw on his superb Fanuc CNC milling machine. Tools and machines, young or old, - beautiful.

Hi Sergy, thank you very much for this great and inspiring collection of pictures. I haven't seen most of them before. I especially like the allegoric picture (new to me) which includes several stages of the instrument's life, from the spruce and maple trees being felled, to the people dancing to the music of the finished violin.

Awesome post Sergy, thank you for sharing

Love what looks to be a neck angle jig in this image...clever.



Cheers

Kim

I have one of those "Cordless" Scrollsaws with a grinder attachment. Wife has her Grandmother's "Cordless" Sewing Machine too.

Thanks all for kind comments!

charangohabsburg wrote:Hi Sergy,

Hi, Markus!
I know about your "Jointapprentice Hobby a1 and kerfed linings", it too works without an electricity. It needs to be included in this topic.

Mark Fogleman wrote:I have one of those "Cordless" Scrollsaws with a grinder attachment. Wife has her Grandmother's "Cordless" Sewing Machine too.

Undoubtedly - it is a museum piece!!!

Sergy wrote:I know about your "Jointapprentice Hobby a1 and kerfed linings", it too works without an electricity. It needs to be included in this topic.

I'm honoured that you mentioned this one!
The Jointapprentice Hobby a1 allows me to do some tasks after midnight without disturbing my neighbours that live at the floor below! I use it quite often (for anything else than kerfing linings because there are better ways to do this).

Here is another of my "after midnight tools". It is certainly not the most versatile one but I really like this drill press which I have bought last December:


(click to enlarge)

Cheers,

Hi Sergy, Great Topic & Great Pics. Thanks for posting such a variety. Maybe we take things for granted when we switch on our router with its carbide tipped bit or rip some binding (as I have just done) on our electricity (or electrickery as Catweasel would say) powered bandsaw. I am a huge fan of all tools both hand and powered and am greatful of all the work that people have done to develop them over centuries...otherwise we would still be skinning our dinner with a piece of flint and cooking it over a fire! In that sense we are all standing on the shoulders of giants.

John

Sergy wrote:

Look at the trouble this guy gets into with a hand saw. Imagine what what happen if you let him loose with a bandsaw.

Don't be silly Marty...obviously the images is showing 2 x saw operators in the process of cutting a head stock veneers