The old foundary is owned by the city of Kiel and for some reasons the co-working endet last year. The assosciation had stuffed the museum with a lot of additionally exhibition objects like an patternmaker tool chest. The cits of Kiel doesn't want to store these additional items. So the association has to find new homes.
A few weeks ago my father in law called me and asked me if I wanted to store the Patternmakers toolcabinet. I thought: "O good, I need an additinal cabinet t store my tools". But when I arrived at the foundary, the cabinet was full. So now I am an official tool museum.
Bfor the cabinet was given to the association, it was the apprentience cabinet in one of the last foundary in Kiel. That might be the reason, all the tools are allmost unused. ANd the combination looks a bit liek no one has worked with it.
I was suprised not to find a set of patternmakers chisels. Ony a few set of standard chisels, a few gauges, but no incannel gouges. There's a very fine Flott brace (on of the best makings, IMHO), but no drillbits at all. There are two hammer and a mallet. A lot of different files but no rasps. Some cool measure gauges (with a shrinking scale, 1%, 1,5%, 2 %) but I miss a block plane.
I'm very jealous!
AntwortenLöschenIt is an odd collection to conclude that it was a patternmaker's toolkit. It lacks most of the tools that are essential for the trade: shrink rules, , router plane, hollow core planes etc. and why are there apparently four smoothing planes?
AntwortenLöschenIt came to teh museum directly from the foundary. So I don't doubt that it is a patternmakers tool chest. There is a shrink rule and the sliding caliper has 3 different shrink rates.
AntwortenLöschenThe planes are german: Scrub Plan, Schlicht Hobel wich is a bit finer than the scrub. Double plane wich is 45° but Iron and Cap Iron and Smoothng plane, 48° and doble Iron. The usual German plane set. Different to the anglo american sheme, But it is prooven that this set works, too.