Ancient technology meets modern innovation

The hold-fast, a piece of antiquity that has lasted through the ages just to come to my humble little shop starting as shock on a BMW and then being transformed by the hammer and forge into the same thing that carpenters have been using to hold there work for hundreds of years! That was deep.
#diy #woodworking #traditional

[@jimmcnett]

I beleive they will hold better if there is a little more curve in the part that actually clamps the wood. That is how the look in the stores and on line. I have one that I bought at Woodcraft. It works really well.

[@measure_once_cut_twice]

More curve in the paddle, check!

[@LydiaParker-wm2ze]

Very cool.

[@measure_once_cut_twice]

I thought so....

[@NathanielKlemm-py7pz]

Wow

[@measure_once_cut_twice]

I know right?

[@NathanielKlemm-py7pz]

I tried posting a video about building a knife out of a bullet casing, and now I have a strike. It said I was dangerous activity that could put me at risk. So I can't post a vid for a week.

[@measure_once_cut_twice]

Wow. A bullet casing? It must have thought it was a live bullet, That's crazy.

[@unavailable-x7q]

it's called a holdfast

[@measure_once_cut_twice]

Thank you!

[@BillyBOB-sm3rl]

You want more curve at the top and more angle. Kinda like a 7 not an L.

[@measure_once_cut_twice]

You're the second one to say that, maybe I'll make some more and do some testing!