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1. 
   Walker1 | Oct 20, 2005 06:11am | #1

          Hey take it easy on the equipment.  View Image 

                        Cheers.                         Walker1   

2. 
   BrentS | Oct 21, 2005 12:54am | #2

   Is the mortiser lever OK?

    

   Brent

1. 
   WillGeorge | Oct 21, 2005 07:29pm | #4

   Lever OK but I always THOUGHT ya' got smarter with age?

1. 
   BrentS | Oct 21, 2005 09:46pm | #5

   That's just what the really old guys want us to believe. LOL

    

   Brent

2. 
   mikegagne | Oct 22, 2005 10:14am | #7

   <I always THOUGHT ya' got smarter with age?>umm, does that mean it hurts more than it did when you were younger? ;-)
   aloha, mike

3. 
   BOBABEUI | Oct 21, 2005 03:54pm | #3

   Will,

   I feel your pain, I had a black eye experience fitting a mortise and tendon joint.

    I cut a MT joint a wee too tight (well maybe more than wee), so the joint needed a couple of swipes with a plane. So I clamped the stock with mortise in the bench vise and tugged at the stock with tendon. Next thing I knew, I popped myself in my cheek with the piece that I was tugging on with all my might. Really nice black eye was end result, was kidded at work about about my wife hitting me in the eye, actually it would be less embarrassing than the truth.

   Best of luck.

      

4. 
   MarkRD | Oct 21, 2005 09:59pm | #6

   I reguarly scraped myself on my Tablesaw fence rail until I covered it with a tennis ball. Might a tennis ball on the knob help? (at least reduce the impact a bit)

   Mark

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