My newest (used) sander ma jigger

[tscheel]

Drove to Pleasanton last night and picked this up for $ 30.00:



Its an old Monkey Wards, and with a little cleanup and some grease, it otta work like new. Think I'll take off the disk, as I already have a Delta 10" disk/belt.....

My Grand Pappy had a whole shop full of Wards tools, and made many nice pieces over the years.

I'll update with "After Cleanup" photos when and if I ever get it done.

-tyler

[TDHofstetter]

You GOT it! Very cool li'l machine! I'll bet it's heavy as all-get-out, with all that "arn" in it, huh?

[sawduster]

Betcha with some practice you could use that puppy as a wide jointer type sander. Maybe add a bit of veneer or some laminate on the back side of the drum built up to the top of the drum and it would be almost like a jointer, only safer on thin materials.

Definitely a keeper.

[lockman]

Very cool indeed. I am glad you were able to get it. You will have as much fun restoring as using.

[deepsplinter]

Yep, nice piece there Tyler. For that price I don't see how you could go wrong.

I'm with Jerry, I can see a wide jointer (of sorts) there.

How does the sandpaper attach to the drum?

[admin]

Whoo hooo, new old tools, new old tools!

Tim is right, there's a lot of heavyweight stuff there, hope you didn't give yourself a hernieuh... hurnieuhh... hernyugh................

Hope you didn't hurt yourself.

[Joe Lyddon]

Congratulations!

Be sure to let us see what it looks like after you clean it up!

Really looks nice to me...

BTW, I'd leave the disk on... as a spare... I'd put a Hook & Loop base pad on it for quick-changing grits, etc.

LOOKS really COOL!

[sachbvn]

If you can get it running good - you can get it cleaned up and lookin' good too!!

Nice!


Zac