Hello I hope this post finds you all doing great and enjoying whatever you are doing in life ! As you can see I'm doing what I LOVE to do and that is play & paint with my gourds! These are just a few from my last years garden and a few that I bought. I was very happy to come back home from Florida after being gone for 7 months and taking a look at my gourds that cured from last year and they were soooo pretty at least to me !
 I know that I have done a post before about my tools and I really liked them they were also a gourd tool kit from The Caning Shop. The only problem I ever had myself with them was controlling the jigsaw and that was for 2 reasons I have problems with my hands I have Rheumatoid arthritis and there was only one speed high on the tools, well the jigsaw and my hands sometimes had no control so therefore a straight line now became a half moon . On the other hand my husband had no problem what so ever ! My old one the tools came in a hard plastic case and with everything this new one has plus it comes with a variable speed power supply 8-18 volt DC and I Absolutely LOOOVE it. It also comes in a canvas type suitcase that has a caring handle . |
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| The whole gourd tool kit from the Caning Shop |
This is the inside of the gourd tool kit it has a place to put everything and there are velcro straps holding them all in place. In the lid of the case there is two pockets that hold the jig saw blades ,carving burs with room in both pockets for many a blade & bur !!
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| sander |
These are some of the tools inside the kit - this first one is a sander for sanding all .those rough spots on your gourd`& yes there is plenty of rough spots !! The sander comes with like 4 different grit pads
 This is the end of the sander and where you attach the grit pads at .
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| different grit sanding pads |
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 This one is the gourd drill , it's just the right size. You have to pre - drill a couple of holes where your going to use your jigsaw. You can change the size of the drill bit for what ever smaller size you may need. |
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 This is the tip of the drill whee the bit goes in. |
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 My jigsaw this is probably one of the most important tools for gourd crafting . At least the kind of crafting I do on my gourds.Just like the wood burning tool to the gourd crafter who wood carves on their gourds,. I tried wood burning on a gourd & I really like it but I need alot more practice at it. But I like to cut out eyes, mouths ,HO-HO-HO's , windows, doors you got it so the jigsaw is well worth it to me !! |
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 The tip of the jigsaw where you put your saw blade, as you see there is a guide around the blade to help guide you . |
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| a Variable Speed Power Supply 8-18 volt DC |
Now this is the Variable Speed Power Supply that did not come in my first kit. This power supply controller is GREAT because you can plug it into any of your three tools here and it controls the speed at which your are moving your tools. I LOVE it ! Works GREAT !!
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| control knob |
Te kit also comes with carving burs and fine & course jigsaw blades, so you get a few to start out with and to be abl to figure out how to use all of them, you can order any thing you might need off there web site and I'll drop you the link for that at the bottom of this post.
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| 6 carving burs, 5/pk fine jig saw blades, & 5/pk coarse jig saw blades |
 This is another great tool to have it's a long handled gourd scraper for cleaning out the inside of your gourd after you have cut some kind of whole into the gourd. There are all kinds of scrappers for cleaning out the inside. |
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Hello I hope this post finds you all doing great and enjoying whatever you are doing in life ! As you can see I'm doing what I LOVE to do and that is play & paint with my gourds! These are just a few from my last years garden and a few that I bought. I was very happy to come back home from Florida after being gone for 7 months and taking a look at my gourds that cured from last year and they were soooo pretty at least to me !
I know that I have done a post before about my tools and I really liked them they were also a gourd tool kit from The Caning Shop. The only problem I ever had myself with them was controlling the jigsaw and that was for 2 reasons I have problems with my hands I have Rheumatoid arthritis and there was only one speed high on the tools, well the jigsaw and my hands sometimes had no control so therefore a straight line now became a half moon . On the other hand my husband had no problem what so ever ! My old one the tools came in a hard plastic case and with everything this new one has plus it comes with a variable speed power supply 8-18 volt DC and I Absolutely LOOOVE it. It also comes in a canvas type suitcase that has a caring handle .
This is the end of the sander and where you attach the grit pads at .
This one is the gourd drill , it's just the right size. You have to pre - drill a couple of holes where your going to use your jigsaw. You can change the size of the drill bit for what ever smaller size you may need.
This is the tip of the drill whee the bit goes in.
My jigsaw this is probably one of the most important tools for gourd crafting . At least the kind of crafting I do on my gourds.Just like the wood burning tool to the gourd crafter who wood carves on their gourds,. I tried wood burning on a gourd & I really like it but I need alot more practice at it. But I like to cut out eyes, mouths ,HO-HO-HO's , windows, doors you got it so the jigsaw is well worth it to me !!
The tip of the jigsaw where you put your saw blade, as you see there is a guide around the blade to help guide you .
This is another great tool to have it's a long handled gourd scraper for cleaning out the inside of your gourd after you have cut some kind of whole into the gourd. There are all kinds of scrappers for cleaning out the inside.
As you can see this is the tip of the scrapper and as you can see it has a round tip with sharp edges sor scrapping the inside. It makes it soooo much easier.
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