Thread: We Have Skills Too !!

Call me nostalgic but I always like to use the kind of tools used when these were installed originally.

Some of these jobs are not big money makers...at least not to the tune of my usual $125/hr. labor rate because the market won't bear it but this extra attention to detail and care is not for the sake of the customer. It is for me. For the joy of it. If you can't love your trade then why are you in it?
Anyway here are some finished product shots.

Nice work, Paul

+1!
Beautiful installations, and love the twist drill..
Think I’ve still got a couple of plunge style mechanical drills in the shop that are great for woodworking to this day..

Those lock sets remind me of the ones on our first house we moved into up here.

I have the same locks installed in my house. Well 1/2 the doors, the upstairs are all mortise locks with glass knobs, and the lower floor is all cylindrical locks. My doors are all wood doors too. I always notice doors and locks.

Every interior door in my house has one of these locks. Even to lock the bathrooms from the inside you would need to use a key. The original builder must have been a lock freak. The few times I have used them they are more for childproofing than anything else. A swift kick would get you through the doors. As far as I know it has always been a single family house.



Last week I picked the lock of a cheap electronic safe for a coworker. Do not leave the backup key inside of the safe in case the batteries die.....

I have done this for more than one person!

Maybe not a skill but an ability. 3 more panels and the gate too go tomorrow.

Then all you need to do is paint them white.

Bob