Just a recommendation. A few months ago The David Marks Show explained the use of a cut off kick switch. Finally this week the Web site supplied a link to the illustration. If you like Methods of work in Fine Woodworking – you’ll like this jig. At first I didn’t want to take the time to make it, you know there’s never free time and simple projects can take hours. Not to mention the negative side of my brain said -cut off switch or not, there isn’t time to react when binding or kick back occurs. Anyway for what ever reason – I went forward and made the kick switch for my Unisaw. There is a new feeling having done something to be safer around the saw and the benefits convenience wise are and will be appreciated if you make this jig.
On another note, the David Marks Show isn’t on the air any more in my area, Westchester, New York.
Maybe he didn’t have a large enough audience or the right audience – but I got to believe anyone who is a serious or professional woodworker, didn’t change the channel when the show aired.
It’s a loss for woodworkers when they take the shows away for the wrong reasons because they’re not appealing to everyone.
Please add comments of support, I’m sure these postings are read by television people.
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I'm guessing you only have HGTV in your area. Unfortunatley DIY is the network that broadcasts his show and HGTV was showing it as a "preview" and pulled it. Bunch of email has been sent in, but I highly doubt it will change anything. I agree about the switch though, I have mine set so I can turn the saw off with my knee, convenient enough and I'm used to it. But yep, it's a good idea
I love that show! I tape it every chance i get. Where's the link that you mentioned, though? I can't find it.
Thanks,
kevin
Hello RK,
Good to hear from you.
Go to DIYNET.com - go to search and type in Web extra - look for kick switch article
Kindest regards
SA
Kinda nuts they make it so hard to find. I know I'd never think of search for "Web extra" LOL!
Here, friends, is the actual link! Novel idea, I know:http://www.diynet.com/DIY/article/0,2058,10851,00.htmlforestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
SA, I too enjoy David Marks and have been saddened that they have taken him off of HGTV here in Georgia. I enjoyed my Saturday mornings with a cup of coffee watching him at 7:00 AM and then Norm at 7:30AM. David Marks sure has his own style and does quality work. He is still on DIY at 9:00 PM..... I think. Dalewood
They took him off in Wisconsin too. I tried to complain but the way big business is set up you can't reach anybody. Maybe enough of this and we can again set down with a cup of coffee and enjoy good veiwing.
I'm lucky enough that my sattelite system carries both HGTV and DIY. Oddly, I find that the mojority of the programs on DIY are absolute drivel. But I agree that David Marks is a fine woodworker, and I find his show to be fascinating.
And that is true even though I don't like his sense of style. Most of the pieces he has done on the show, I would never have in my home -- they're just way too modern in style. But even so, I find his designs appealing.
But his methods of work are captivating, and his execution of his designs is absolutely flawless. And the wood......the woods that David Marks uses are to die for. Crotch mahogany, flame maple, wenge, bubinga, ebony.....the list goes on.
And best I can tell, it's all done for the edification of us amatuers. I haven't seen much in the line of blatant tool advertisements, like there is with the "other" TV woodworker. Although David has a few awesome tools, they are not the focus of the show -- the woodworking, and the wood, is.
YesMa'am,
Don't hold it against the "other" guy. If it's the one I think you mean, he is on public TV. We would probably not see him at all were it not for the tool makers' support.
Marks is on commercial TV where the ads foot the bill.
I agree with you that Marks methods of work are interesting, especially if you are making something you think you can market. I think some of his items could be modified to fit in our "world of antiques" home without looking too out of place.
John
I understand and agree totally. In fact, I now own a number of the tools that I first saw on NYW.
I also agree that David Marks designs could fit well with a number of very marketable design schemes. It's not that I think his stuff is useless -- far from it -- it's gorgeous, well designed, and well made. Sounds like a recipe for success.
It's just that my personal preference for furniture styles doesn't match his. I'm all into fine antiques, with pieces made primarily from a single species.
For what it's worth, I have continued, and probably will continue, to watch BOTH of the TV woodworkers. I've learned a lot in the process, and I hope to continue.Vast projects should not be founded on half vast ideas.
Many of you may have received the same email from David (actually from his son Morgan), but if you haven't, here is a section requesting viewers to email HGTV and ask that the show be put back on. I hope including this isn't a violation of forum rules.
"If you have been watching David on HGTV, we are sad to announce that they are no longer airing Wood Works. We hope David will be back on HGTV by the end of summer. Since HGTV judges the success of their shows by viewer responses, it would greatly help Wood Works if you send e-mails to HGTV at http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/about_us/text/0,1783,HGTV_3080_4964,00.html requesting that they put the show back on the air. The show is still being aired on DIY, and new episodes for the upcoming season continue to be produced. "
Peace,
kevin
I don't know about anyone else but it seems to me that if Martha Stewart doesn,t have somthing to do with the programing over on HGTV they don't seem to want anything to do with it. When they had Norm on every morning I used to watch when I ate my breakfast but they decided that they would take him off and put him on only on Sat and Sun mornings.
I noticed that they took Wood Works off HGTV but luckily I still can watch him over on DIY on Mon evening Tues morning,Thurs morning then on Sat and Sun mornings.
The guy I never see any more is Scott Phillips I think his show was called the American Woodshop. Does anyone know if he's even on any place any more?
Thanks Jim Clark
PBS (i think it's actually a Kentucky channel - KET) carries him where i live in western West Virginia. I hardly ever see him, though. I did catch a part of his show this week, one with Rude Osolnik.Philip Henslowe: Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.Hugh Fennyman: So what do we do?Philip Henslowe: Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well.Hugh Fennyman: How?Philip Henslowe: I don't know. It's a mystery.
I've said it before: cancel your cable account, get either DirectTV or Dish Network -- you'll save money, and be able watch all the David Marks' you want. And alot more stuff, too.
I'm surprised cable companies are still in business. Compared to satellite, their product is just so inferior.
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Edited 8/15/2003 2:57:28 AM ET by BarryO
Comcast (cable) is running a series of commercials in the Puget Sound area which maintain, in a humorous but pointed way, that satellite TV is unreliable, affected by wind and rain and snow, etc., etc. I take it you've found this defintely to not be true?? I'm very curious.
We might have problems with The Dish because we're in kind-of a "bowl" on the island. Hard to get many of the radio signals, and I noticed one of our neighbors used to have a dish and has removed it, so perhaps they had trouble?
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
We had a satellite outage last night for about an hour when the monsoons hit us. From my prior experience with cable they would be down at this point as well. Since satellite is line of sight if you have a clear view of the sky you should be OK. That being said, yes weather can effect it. But the cloud cover has to be fairly extensive, a normal cloudy day or even a rainy one hasn't caused me any problems. Just torrential storms. Check with your neighbor as well.
Forestgirl,
I've seen those ads in parts of the country such as Florida, where they can get storms that drop as much rain in 20 minutes as we in the Pacific NW get in 2 weeks.
I'm really surprised they're trying to run these ads in the Puget Sound; you guys get alot of rain, but it would very rarely be hard enough to interfere with a satellite signal.
I got a Dish Network system several years ago. No cable out here; the cable co. stops running cable about 6 miles away. I only once had rain fade bad enough to affect a signal. And that was on the special second dish I have to get the high-definition TV channels; it points to a satellite that's only 11 degrees above the horizon. The standard dish that most folks have was unaffected.
Rain fade can also be counteracted with a larger dish. Federal Law (since 1996) and FCC regulations state that Homeowners' Associations and landlords cannot prohibit dishes up to 1 meter in diameter.
The satellites you need to be able to point to are in the southern sky, with an elevation of about 37 degrees in your part of the country. I think both DirecTV and Dish Network will do free installs if you sign up for a year; one of the local installers can come out to your place and do a site survey to see if you can get a signal.
As others noted, "rain fade" (signal attenuation due to precipitation) is real, but the precip needs to be quite heavy before it will completely interrupt the signal.
For all of us in the US, the general line-of-sight is to the south (because, of course, commercial broadcast satellites are in geostationary orbit over the equator, at an altitude of roughly 22,800 miles). "Elevation" is the angle between the horizon (which is 0 degrees elevation; straight overhead is 90 degrees) and the satellite. The elevation to a geo-bird is primarily dependent upon latititude. The further to the north you live, the closer to the horizon the dish has to be pointed. In Fairbanks, AK you'd be pointing your dish only about 15 degrees above the horizon. In Miami, FL you'd be pointing about 60 degrees above the horizon, in Seattle, about 35 degrees above.
This is further complicated by terrain; the elevations above assume flat terrain. If you have mountains, trees, or tall buildings surrounding your antenna (a "horizon mask"), you may not be able to point directly at the satellite you wish to receive, even though a nearby town (or even a nearby neighbor), might have clear line of sight.
I've had the dish (with DirectV) for about a year and a half. My experience has been that there is a very definite connection between the weather and the reception I get. In a bad storm, we lose the signal completely.
As an aside, we have found that there Customer Service operation is as bad as if not worse than our local Cable Provider. Having said that, we are now using a Universal Receiver (RCA) which I understand is the equivalent of TIVO and when it's working which is most of the time, it is outstanding (especially the ability to record up to 35 hours of programs on a hard drive-- up to 2 shows simultaneously).
I'm on Long Island. Stop paying the Dolan Crooks. Get Direct TV with Tivo even with tivo and HBO you'll be paying much less than cablevision and get a much better product, you'll also have every WoodWorks episode to watch anytime you want with just the push of a button.
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