Tricks that old racers get up to after retirement

[FUJIMO]

Jackie: These youngsters don't know nothing these days. I guess if it don't have a motor, what is it? Are you going to clean up the spoke shave/draw knife?

...gotcha. did not recognize it. good for stripin bark etc. muretic acid(pool acid) wash it a couple times first would help.

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...her restuarant/bar/resort today. its still there. operated by different people. or at least it was before covid...

[FUJIMO]

...francis died in 2005 at age 92 of congestive heart failure in jensen beach. she was cremated and her ashes were spread in the ocean straight out from her home she had on the beach there...

[powerabout]

I found three of them hung on a nail in Eddies barn. They had hung there unused for between thirty five and fifty five years. I spent the weekend bringing them back to life , Needs another few days to restore.
One of them is very rare indeed, thought i might give it to Cadillac, he restores vintage wooden raceboats. I could maybe give him a few pointers. Hell of a thing to send through U>S> customs as a gift. Might be a problem.

is it the blade from a tannery, used to scrape the hide clean?

[AZMIDLYF]

[2us70]

I had a shop teacher in 9th grade who taught us how to use both a draw knife and a spoke shave. worked very well for shaping wood. Some people just have a knack for using hand tools like that. John McCall was a great hand with a hand plane. I watched him take the hook out of my boat bottom in about a minute with one.

Jackie: These youngsters don't know nothing these days. I guess if it don't have a motor, what is it? Are you going to clean up the spoke shave/draw knife?

[jackiewilson]

Didnt take em all the way up to”SMITHSONIAN” level of finish, would have taken too long, and the finished article is not desired quite as much as a DUESNBURG PHAETON or a Ming vase!

Interesting that two of the blades are made by MARPLES and mass produced at the end of the nineteenth century to the mid twentieth century. now the last one is blacksmith made from two different steels. beaten and folded to produce a blade only the Japanese swordmakers are capable of making . Was a stone bitch getting the grinding marks out, but the degree of sharp is amazing.
Never heard of the maker before either JAMES HAWORTH .

[jackiewilson]

Turns out James Howarth was a brilliant toolmaker, catering for the joinery trade around 1850. He also made EDGE BLADES, these were used in SPOKE shaves, ADZES and DRAWKNIVES. Two of the finest metals were hardened and forged together, Gave the very finest cutting edge .
The SORBY company bought the James Howarth name in 1933. Just saying !

[FUJIMO]

...nice restoration of those blades. ...and not a single drop of blood was spilled doing it...

[jackiewilson]

...nice restoration of those blades. ...and not a single drop drop of blood was spilled doing it...

you dont know that for sure !!! And im not daft enough to tell you !!!

[FUJIMO]

you dont know that for sure !!! And im not daft enough to tell you !!!

...you just did...

[jackiewilson]

Well Well Well. Could it be that maybe Lewis Hamilton can drive a race car rather well after all?
More race victories than any other driver in history ( but that does not mean hes a good driver).
Of course he did have a half decent vehicle. But so did another ten drivers, ( all within half a second)
But what if Vettel or Verstappen, Leclerc or Riccardo had been given the same car!
Wouldnt have made any difference - Hes a better driver than any of them !
Or maybe its just coincidental and a touch of the leprechaun that got him where he is.?
Why does everyone have to belittle his results. ?
You do not win six world F1 championships and 92 Grand Prix by accident .
I just hope when he wins seven F1 championships and 100 races, he decides to go west and race the American circuits .
If he does, better watch out, he might just bring some of that luck with him.