Best selling wood projects - Old Tools With Strange Trademarks

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I was recently sent a request from a keen woodworker inquiring about the ancestry of a certain chisel.
It was an obscure trademark and unclear forging stamp that had him puzzling.
Here is the original correspondence:

Chisel Hallmark:

LION IS PRESENT ON EACH SIDE OF THIS TRADEMARK, LIKELY EUROPEAN

LOOKS LIKE

ACIBR FONDU

ANY IDEAS?

I had seen the logo before, as I have a plane blade manufactured by the same company, but the language was near indecipherable.

Here is the follow up picture:

 The logo should be familiar to any motoring enthusiast.

It is this one:

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 Yes, the same company that makes these beautiful cars has been in existence for over 200 years as a steel maker.  It has had steel foundries in France since 1810.

http://www.shearyadi.com/myworld/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/21112008_peugeot-logo-01.jpg

Here are its historical logos with dating.

The similarities are easy to see.

http://passionpeugeot.wifeo.com/images/visuel_droit_1889.jpg

As for the inscription on the chisel - 

Even though it is quite worn, it reads:

PEUGEOT FRÈRES 
ACIER FONDU 

Which in English reads:

Peugeot Brothers
Cast (literally - molten) Steel 

Now these steel products are not common across the Commonwealth of Australia, but are certainly the equivalent of some of the English and US tools of the same period.

My friend should be very happy with his find, as it will give many years of satisfying service - and as a bonus is a link to toolmaking history after the Industrial Revolution.

Happy shavings my friend

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Best selling wood projects - Making A Boat Paddle Tenor Ukulele Part 12 The Parts Come Together

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Well, it has been quite a while -  what a marathon - haha.
OK, here we go with the fitting of the back, the front and the neck.
The bridge will be added last to assure that it is square to the main axis of the instrument, as well as the precise distance from the nut for tuning.

The back is fitted first, and acts as a brace for the body while the other parts are glued in place.
The neck has to be fitted before the front (the soundboard).  This is because it is so much easier to trim and fit the neck tenon into its mortice, without the attendant problems of working around a covered in top.
There is enough space for clamps and it is simply easier to accomplish.

The soundboard (the top) also has to align with the upper surface of the neck as the fretboard will be glued over both of these.
So they must finish in the same plane.

I use a scrap of wood from the top as a guide to setting the height of the neck above the body - leaving space for the soundboard.

Once the neck and the front are securely glued in place, the fretboard will be added.
Here is a trial fit.

The position of the bridge determines where the re-inforcing will be glued on the back of the soundboard.

The re-inforcing strips are simply scrap pieces from the body construction which will be glued with the grain running at right angles to the grain of the soundboard.

Here they are in position prior to glue and clamp.


Laying Out the Fretboard
.............this will be the next task while the glued parts are drying.



The final tasks will include:

1. Final sanding
2. Lacquering and finishing
3. Fitting the headstock tuners
4. Stringing ...... and
5. Voila ............... playing

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