Hey things are getting a bit slow around here even for a curmudgeon hermit ( meaning me ).
. . . and I have the day off. It is raining and cold here. Actually I like weather like this. I just like changes in the weather. Suppose that is why I ride my bike to work in all of it. Not far. No hurricanes in Colorado . . . yet.
Hey I stumbled across this list of who all is on line at anyone time
http://forums.taunton.com/fw-knots
Can click on “show more visitors”. I had never noticed that before.
Yah I’m a little slow; been here every day for years and couldn’t find it.
But that is not what I came here for. What I came here for was to say :
With all these lovely people looking in I am calling on everyone to put up a pic or talk about their favorite item/tool/etc in their work shop. You all have seen my bench and tools ad nauseam so I am not going to put up anything.
Please . . . show us your favorite . . .
roc
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Edited 9/21/2009 2:54 pm by roc
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It would be a good Idea to pursue finding out how to "resize" or "adjust" the size of your posted pics so we can view the whole pic on screen at once. A posted pic straight out of your camera/files will post too large to fit in the screen area.
I have a mac, use an application called Preview and reset the size to 640 x 480
http://forums.taunton.com/fw-knots/messages?msg=47154.5
Perhaps some one could post how to do the same with PC/Windows etc.
and or a link on this site about how to do it.
Generally it is a couple of clicks of your mouse to make the corrections; size, rotate etc.
roc
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Edited 9/21/2009 3:09 pm by roc
Glen-Drake #4 chisel hammer; takes all the pain out of half-blind dovetails.
Jim
Yeah, I love my Cliftons, Bedrocks, 45's, 55's, Henry Taylor's sharp edges BUT the tool that I touch almost every day is a simple 4 piece folding caliper rule a Stanley #32 1/2. It is with me always and always will be. Paddy
Instead of preview, when choosing the photo for attachment, at the bottom right corner of the photo is size selection, small, medium,etc.
OK here goes nuttn'Nah dude naheither I am not getting it or you are not a Mac user or sump'nI never saw small, medium etc.Couldn't be easier to click on the photo after I import it from my computer that I have set up to work with my iPhone which I have to do anyway because the first computer doesn't edit as well as second one. I know that doesn't make sense but only took a minute literally.Then all I do is double click the photo and click the size I want.By the way if I ever see small, medium etc. do I want to click small or medium ?Thanks for helping me I appreciate it but like I said some thing is different on my end from what you are seeing.ThanksPS: first photo is how it would be just up loading it with out resize. I saw nothing on FWW attch doc window to resize. Second photo is how I intended via Preview.rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )Edited 10/7/2009 7:36 pm by roc <!-- ROC2013 -->
Edited 10/7/2009 7:39 pm by roc
diligance,By the way welcome to the forum. I see this is our first post. I am honored that you chose to address it to me.Sorry about the "dude" if you are a woman. Most all of the people I talk to here are of the male gender.rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
My favorite gadget is my Wixey angle gauge.
My favorite power tool has got to be the unisaw
My favorite hand held is my PC 690 plunge router
My favorite cordless is a 12v dewalt impact driver
Favorite fixture/aid is the Leigh dovetail jig.
Gotta love the stuff that works as expected, every time, with no fuss.
Not criticizing - just commenting: your list sounds a little cliche. Maybe that's just because they are generally so well liked. Me, my list is a bit different:Favourite fixture, by far, the Tucker Vise (shown clamping the Veritas Carver's vise with 1"x8TPI post with lathe chuck threaded on, holding a turned bowl for carving. Taken just 45 minutes ago.Favourite hand tool would have to be a carving tool. Probably my #9x12mm gouge or 2mm v-tool.All my power tools are nice to have and I like them. No favourites. No - wait. My angle grinder with an Arbortech wheel is my favourite. It's fun!I completely agree that reliable tools are the absolute best. I think I'd rather have a poor-medeocre tool that was consistent than one that worked amazingly one day and didn't at all the next.Chris @ http://www.flairwoodworks.com and http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com)
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
>carving on turned bowl<Is that "chip" carving then ? Pretty large chips, or is that considered carving carving ?Terminology wise ? I have never carved anything to speak of.Quite nice !Hey if someone likes their tools they post that is enough for me. Unless there is one solid fav then I want a pic. Can't have people photographing their entire shop and posting that but I am sure that is how enthusiastic many of us are about our shops.Thanks for photo ! ! ! I enjoy seeing other's shops so much ! ! !rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Roc,I suppose that in effect, the carving I did is chip carving. However, it was done in a completely non-conventional way, as far as chip carving goes. I used a v-tool to remove most of the waste, then cleaned up with a double-bevelled skew chisel.Chris @ http://www.flairwoodworks.com and http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com)
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
>works as expected, every time, with no fuss<Hey that is what my boss is always saying about me. Actually he says he wonders if I will ever just do that.: )What is a Wixey angle gauge ?rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Wixey angle gauge described here:
http://www.wixey.com/anglegauge/index.html
It works as advertised.
> Wixey<Hey thanks ! That is brilliant. I always looked at stuff like that and thought "yeh if your tools are already level". But it compensates by calibrating to the surface tha's great!Much easier to use than a protractor head on a straight edge or some such.rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Off subject, but I just bought the plunge base for my PC 690 router and cannot get the collet centered on the base.....it actually seems like the clamping device pushes the motor to one side of the base.....any suggestions??
Randy.
I haven't noticed an issue with centering of the collet/bit in the base. Given the construction, I'd expect it to be off a little. That's why I normally always use the same side of the base plate against a guide bar when routing dadoes, for example. There are few operations that depend on the bit being exactly centered--perhaps template routing around a template with a guide bushing instead of the bit's ball bearing? What are you trying to do that requires that kind of accuracy?
I noticed it when using it with a dovetail jig. But, it's not necessary to use the plunge base with the jig.
Can get you within a mil or 2.
The older plates for the 690, had recesses and truss head screws. You centered the base plate by: loosening the screws; extending the motor out until the cone on the collet hit the base plate; and then tightening the screws. A really elegant solution to the problem.
I'm not sure how you actully adjust the base to match the motor now that some uninformed pinhead decided that the base should be countersunk, and the screws changed to flatheads. (Please write PC and tell them the change was a damned foolish idea.)
I'd look for the old style plates on ebay, or the shelf at older tool/hardware stores.
I want an impact driver, but I don't need one. How do I 'justify' the purchase? What does it do well?
MMS,
I believe Forestgirl was singing the praises of an impact drill not too long ago. I'll copy her in on this.
--jonnieboy
"What does it do well?" Drives and removes screws. ;-)
I can't claim to have a wide breadth of experience with an impact drives (e.g., different woods, different hardware, etc.), but it has been outstanding at what I've used it for.
Driving deck screws through Ipe, into the joists below, without stripping heads of very fine fin-trim screws. Yes, the Ipe was pre-drilled, but with a smallish (relatively) hole. There was no sticking of the screws going in.
Driving long screws through 2x4's into large frameing timbers (6x?)
Disassembling a large shelving unit that'd been sitting for 15 years under cover, but not climate controlled, Great Northwest weather. 2.5" screws zipped out with hardly a glitch (I think there were three that didn't come all the way out)
Since most ID's, including our Makita, don't have a clutch, might not be the tool of choice for driving screws into fine furniture, LOL, but I won't ever be without one for general work. If you're willing to pay extra, I think you can get one with a clutch.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Today while standing in a 5 foot hole framing a grade beam, in the mud and rain. I used a dewalt 18 V cordless impact all day. tons of 3.5 decks screws. Works like a dream and wrist is not as sore as a straight cordless driver, after 6 hours. They sell a new bit that can handle the pounding. Robertson heads Ahhhh. I know a few folks that take them Quading if they have to change a tire.Today I was 6 feet high till I took my boots off. Back to 5,8. maybe snow tomorrow.
Impact drivers let you drive screws all day with no fatigue since it doesn't torque your wrist like a drill does. Maybe not so significant for furniture making, but if you do any type of home improvements--especially framing--you will learn to love the tool.
Roc, this is a hard call for the true tool junkies... I have so many tools I haven't even used ;o)
If I had to pick one, I would say that I absolutely love my Excalibur sliding table, on my table saw.
>tool I haven't used yet<Oh let us not put rules and limitations on the thing. After all how many people "Use" their Picasso or their diamond tiara , well maybe the diamond thing but you know . . .rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Edited 9/21/2009 6:18 pm by roc
hey roc,
any time i get to fondle the following:
the adria dovetail saw
any of my carving chisels
any of my home-made, lathe-turned mallets.
eef
Slightly different spin -
My favorite is whatever I need at that moment to get the task done. Instead:
"Things I wish I had bought much earlier"
1. Starrett combo squares (v. the Borg stuff I used to have - gave them away. Yeesh.)
2. Fractional dial calpiers
3. Saddle square
4. Starrett 48" straight edge. Use it maybe 2x per year, but after I got it, never any more snipe - none - on the planer, and the jointer works great.
With those tools, I can make the rest of the equip do what I need. I do love my Forrest blades, though.
Agree with the comments about getting quality gear. In fact, I held off on starting for a few years cause I couldn't afford what I wanted. Then, I hit the trifecta on the Derby at Churchill Downs. DW looks at the tote board and says "That's a lot of money". Me: "The heck with that stuff (or words to that effect) - That's a table saw, and a set of blades, and a jointer, and a planer, and a .........." Named the Unisaw after the winning horse, God bless his soul.
Good Go!! Nice horsey. My old General 6 inch jointer.Some day I should research the serial # and find out how old it is??
i really like my little Veritas apron plane. It's always in my apron pocket. It's handy, easy to use and I use it a lot.
For a picture go to Lee Valley.
Edited 9/22/2009 12:50 am ET by James R.
The 1985 Makita girl poster.
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Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
~ Denis Diderot
Hi d , Was that the one in Blue ? Someone talked me out of mine .
Don,
Where is the picksher of the said Makita girl? You must not tease so.
Meanwhile I have decided to post pics of all my tools as all of them are my favourites at one time or another. (A bit like a dawg, I am: "A ball! My favourite! Dogfood! My favourite. A worn ole slipper! My favourite! Ad infinitum).
Well alright; I'll not bore everyone to deeth with The Complete Shed And Its Contents. Here is a small selection.........
First we have this stuff: some don't like it but I'm addicted. Notice the chaps ensuring that the wires are big enough to feed my shed's appetite. Tricity!
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Next is the Efficient Plank Squisher. Those poor fools that are stuck with sash cramps, cauls and all that awkward mess! They must write to Switzerland and get some of these:
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Now, for all them as are handtool fetishts, here are a pair of the rare Wenzloffs. These are simple machines made to work purfekly by a tool-making craftsman. What a pleasure to be able to saw stuff without the binding, wandering and other tedious misbehaviours of lesser instruments.
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Now, lest you think I be a tool-snob of the worst ilk, flaunting my Wenzloffs like that, here is another favourite saw that costs about 10 cents but is a wonderfully efficient wee beast: a Zona saw.
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Who can deny the pleasures of LV? I have more of their tools than of any other single manufacturer. This is an example of their well-made, superbly functional and attractive wares. I use their spokeshaves for virtually all simple profiles on edges, these days, as well as for lots of other shaping work.
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Let not LN go without a mention. Like many others, I love this small plane and the many things it can do. The 140 skew block plane.
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Enough for now. Another post will reveal the favourite elektrikery-driven tools - not too familiar to those in the US perhaps. And then there is the exotica from NZ.....
Lataxe, gubbins fetishist.
Edited 9/22/2009 10:43 am ET by Lataxe
Lataxe, cool pics and glad you've figured how to put them "in-line". However, plz remember, when they are in-line, readers have no choice but to let them download, so it'd be helpful if the file sizes were a bit smaller. That's alot of KBs to wait for, for those who're on dial-up.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
FG,
I'm reluctant to reduce them pixels to the point where subtle gleams and shed-ambience are flushed away by the compression. However, perhaps it will help if a single post has less pics?
Incidentally, it seems strange that within the most technologically advanced country in the world there are still significant islands of dial-up and no broadband. One wonders what percentage of users of the FWW site have the slow connection problem. Also, is it because of their economic choice or because there is no choice in their locale?
Anyroad up, I will try to keep the toolporn number-of-pics low-per post. I feel the size of each pic file cannot be further reduced as you might all think I have only toy tools or cardboard copies!
Lataxe, grateful for the chance to boast, gloat and otherwise reveal a number of other unattractive aspects of his character. (It's a catharsis).
lataxe,"...the most technologically advanced nation..."this would be of the no choice ilk, as i communicate and respond to knots on my work-place computer, during breaks and passing periods. alas, the school district provides no better. aren't we also the richest...eef
Looks like they are, in retrospect, quite well trimmed in file size. I misread the size on the one I checked yesterday, didn't notice until I started playing with it in my photo editor.
The "number of pic per post" thing doesn't really matter, since the threads download as one file, so things probably flow better just as you did this one.
Boast on! Gloat on! Reveal thyself!!!!forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
"REVEAL" thyself!!!???
And this directed to Lataxe, of all people?
Lord, Help Us!!
Lataxe, gubbins fetishist.
You make life for me almost normal!
jay-zo, mr. l. i thought that we were to be treated to photos-no?
eefby way of edit: i see that jamie got pictures. it must be my dumb old computer...
Edited 9/22/2009 4:43 pm ET by Eef
>handsaws and fine clamp set up and things<That's the stuff we're talkin' about. I had a picture of one of those saws as part of my screen saver photos ! I am not sure where I came across it now but thought it was the cat's meow. You actually have the saws !Also I had this pic of the chair in the same screen saver collection. Just saw it recently in the gallery here on Knots. I swear it tis the same photo.rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Edited 9/23/2009 1:10 am by roc
Mr. Lataxe:
Perhaps you could post a few more photos of your Efficient Plank Squisher with your thoughts on what works well with the design and what you'd do differently.
Also, if you have a good design for an Efficient Plank Stretcher, I'm sure many here would be keenly interested.
Thanks,
Randy
Randy,
Here is an old post about that Plano press (for so it is named) extolling its virtues.
http://forums.taunton.com/fw-knots/messages?msg=37729.3114
As you can see from the following pics, it can deal with large and small glue-ups of many configurations. In theory you could buy a Very Large Number of Plano arms to glue up a bench hundreds of feet long.....but only around 3ft 4 ins wide (the limit imposed by the Plano-arm vertical height).
Perhaps one day the Swiss manufacturers will issue Plano arms two as well as one metre high. There will also need to a small crane in the pack, as even a 6ft X 3ft table top can be a bugger to lift out of the contraption. One usually needs a strong friend.
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As you can see, the squishing force can be increased by adding loose cramps or clamps atween the Plano arms; although the Plano by itself exerts a mighty squash. If I have just been to the gym, I can turn the Plano handles so tight that pine is compressed to the density of oak or even lignum vitae! (No it isn't).
As to the "Efficient Plank Stretcher" you enquire on - here it is: another fine machine by the blue & yeller men of Germany. Of course, the stretching does tend to reduce the thickness of the planks.......
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Derek needs to notice how the shape of this plank stretcher is quite curvy; and how the colours add class and owner-discernment, unlike the dull grey nature of his pure form-follows-function Hammer. :-)
Lataxe, who glances smilingly at pit saws, scrub planes and cauls.
Thanks for the thorough reply and link to the other post. Looks like a superior product. And by compressing pine into lignum vitae, it should pay for itself in no time.
Thanks,
Randy
>Makita woman poster<If it is anything like the old RIGID calendars my Dad had in his shop . . . Well . . . not putting any pictures of the poster up on Knots then ? Nooo suppose that could get us in trouble. I'll just use my imagination. Which is one of MY favorite tools.rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Rigid tool calanders OOOHH la la. I worked during high school at a plumbing wholesale place. after school and weekends etc. I found an old stash of them and took a few. They are probably real collectables now.I had one on the wall of my shop many years ago and half burrid by junk, This one lady made a comment about it. Next time she came by , I had made a tasteful tiny leather bikini and she looked at it and laughed like Heck.
Roc,
favorite thing in my workshop is a poster of Shania Twain.
Mel
Measure your output in smiles per board foot.
I have an old radio with paint and finish all over it, for listening to tunes while I work. Second would be the TS & RT, the most used.
I was married by a judge - I should have asked for a jury.
George Burns
>old radio with paint and finish all over it,<Errr . . . you got bad aim ? Or maybe you get tired of broadcasts easy and change stations midcoat ?: )I know what you mean. I have this old Sony boom box given to me in early eighties. Been in metal shops, wood shop, cold, heat, you name it. In the mean time I went through home sterio receivers, CD players, tape decks; all living in the cosy house pampered . . . they are all dead and gone. The little Sony works perfect. Hard to explain to 'em why I wanted a bigger shop stereo this last year with the sub and all.Sony was given to me by my surfer girl from Hawaii; she's gone to. She still works though.rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Edited 9/22/2009 9:40 pm by roc
The paint came from the early days remodling and drywall. Finish is overspray. Thats one of the reasones for the switch to the HVLP. She like me has a few dings but the music is still sweet! Have a good one. I was married by a judge - I should have asked for a jury.George Burns
That is really a tough question, since some tools are indispensable, but the Delta 12" lunchbox planer, is the first tool that came to mind. No tool does more, with less operator input. Imagine the drudgery and effort, taking 1 1/8" birch to 11/16" thick by hand. I did 50 BF recently, all in an afternoon, including flattening with a portable power plane.
Rob Millard
http://Www.americanfederalperiod.com
> Delta lunchbox planer first to mind. No tool does more, with less operator input. did 50 BF recently, all in an afternoon,<Rob,
You are so practical. Hard to argue with THAT !rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
My RT Fence.
Hi Pat (Routerman),
Been a fan of yours for a long time. I see you once in a while on Knots, usually pointing someone to your website, as you did here. You write the shortest messages on record. Quite succinct. You have a lot to offer in the way of knowledge, wisdom and skill. WRT routers, I don't think anyone comes close to you. Why don't you join in to the relevant discussions, and answer with a paragraph or two so that the rest of us can absorb some of your accumulated knowledge?You didn't have to show me the photo of your fence. I have known it for quite a while. Coolest router fence in the universe! Join in. I believe once people get to know you a bit, they will go to your website without being invited. Have fun.
MelMeasure your output in smiles per board foot.
>RT fence<Woh a picture and everything thanks. That's cool. It looks familiar. I think I saw an article way back on how to make one of those with the dial gages and everything.Did you make yours ?rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Made the 2nd generation here, & the one you saw in FWW 144.
>first and second RT fences<Sharp ! Definitely !What little I do with a make shift router fence I try to use thickness gauges ( just thin strips of metal ) and clamped on blocks to move the fence minute amounts.I wind up driving myself nuts. I gotta make one of these real ones.rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Edited 9/22/2009 10:35 pm by roc
Favorite Item/tool/etc in Your Shop
I would have to say that it is me!
I just USE tools... Cheap and expensive ones. For some reason, I usually just pick up the ones I usually use that get the job finished.. I hardly ever think of what that tool cost me!
As a side note:
My Son lives in southern Colorado. He just bought a Log House! It it beautiful... He sent me pictures just to harass me... I always wanted a Log House for some reason. Maybe because it is wood inside and outside.
Son.. One Up On Me! I sure hope he and his little lady can afford the payments! He was here about three weeks ago picking up all his 'STUFF'. He had a two horse trailer filled everyplace we could find... They have four horses.. Two from Scotlad? Welch horses? AND Two that imported from Mexico... I have no idea what a Mexican horse is.. YES.. He made it back home safely! I told him to call be every 8 hours and give me the GPS Location of where he stopped. Time and location.. Stopping and going on again...
From my poor Math.. I think... I have to pay for the gasoline and food expenses for the trip! As I promised....
Expenses well worth every penny!
Well I must admit that my favourite item is the shop itself. It has plenty of space for benches (there are several rows of these, in fact), plus you cannot ignore the high roof line (easy to swing long boards around). Then there are the water views (although this is not good news for rust - so I keep all the planes and chisels in a barrel of oil). The bonus is the hotdog vendor that plies his trade outside the front door (always handy when you are hungry and ready for a snack as the glue dries).
Here is it!
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Regards from Perth ... Sydney ... Perth ... Oh Hell, you wouldn't have fallen for this anyway ..
Derek
Been there! What a wonderful structure!
Derek,
That Sydney shed belongs in fact to the ladywife, who hires it out when not in Sydney herself, to warble-wimmin and bellow-men. Here she is taking possession of the edifice, from the small and dapper fellow who sold her the deeds on Circular Quay. (He has just scurried out of the picture)
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So, if you have been employing the fine services of her shed I fear you must now pay up as the rental is 2 Cohen-tools per week. Any attempt to avoid due payment may result in a visit by the Perth bailiffs, who will repossess your Marcou.
Lataxe, the ladywide's chief enforcer and dogsbody.
That Sydney shed belongs in fact to the ladywife, who hires it out when not in Sydney herself, to warble-wimmin and bellow-men. Here she is taking possession of the edifice, from the small and dapper fellow who sold her the deeds on Circular Quay. (He has just scurried out of the picture)
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Sir Lataxe ... what are you doing with a picture of my wife?! How can you claim this to be your workshop when, in an earlier post, I had already claimed it as mine? Ergo, if the workshop is mine, then the lady-wife must be mine as well. :)
In the power area, my tablesaw also has a sliding table. It works exceptionally well, but it is not power tool #1 ...
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Power tool #1 goes to my bandsaw ...
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(pictures taken a year ago when I was returning to the rebuilt workshop)
Regards from Perth
Derek
Derek, you enquire:
"...what are you doing with a picture of my wife"?!
I had failed to realise that you are the infamous Papa Lazarous!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a27zbNyf3x4
In all events, I have doubled the locks and put up a notice: No pegs, toilet broken beyond repair, wife gone away, Dave lives next door. I cannot countenance you "marrying" the ladywife like that!
Lataxe (not Dave at all really)
Sir Lataxe
I watched that???? some one has found a large amount of LScrazy and a TV camera. Now I will think about this all day. At least the loo got unblocked.Now I know were the wee Colleen's pins got to and she don't want them back.I know better and Dave is at your house trusty me on this one.How come you guys call analog pressure applying devices cramps? I thought those were the domain of food poisoning, over worked muscles and the 28 day bloat.
Shoe,
Tisn't nothin but anxiety over that tea tax thang years ago. Just hold up a cabriole leg and he'll run for cover.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Bob
I was waiting for a fancy reply from the great one. but he is busy making geneticly modified planes. One day he will open the shop door and he will be hit with a wall of Marcou's.
( thinking star treck the trouble with tribbles).Then they will have to hire the Pied Piper of Planes to rid the land of rouge planes taking fine shaving off everything in sight.They never did get over the tea party, so they use words like "cramps" to keep us in the colonies slightly confused.After looking at that video clip, I will have to rent the DVD of "Clock work Orange" then "Montey Pythons" to get that video out of the brain. Do you think he has a penguin on the telly ?
Shoe,
I have shown you my precious things, which are really best kept in a local shop for local people........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QFkExD9_rI
Now that you have seen the fine town of Royston Vasey you will no doubt want to have a holiday there. Just remember, none of us like people who are not local to touch our precious things! If Tubbs doesn't deal with you Papa Lazarous will certainly ensure that you marry him......
Lataxe, who lives in Galgate where matters go even more bizarrely.
That was funny/demented but funny.Mickey love. must be Tubbs unborn child?So does anyone really leave? Looks like a nice place for a hiking, but not with Red Spikes on.The rest of the job class looks like the local coffee shop here.Thanks for the laugh.
:)
Regards from Perth
Derek
>favourite item is the shop itself. It has plenty of space (easy to swing long boards around<I thought you were going to say enough room to swing a cat in. Here I go with another quote from Douglas Adams this time from the book called So long, and thanks for all the fishhttp://flag.blackened.net/dinsdale/dna/book4.htmlhere is a quote:" . . . a bathroom which, Fenchurch explained, you could actually swing a cat in. "But," she added, "only if it was a reasonably patient cat and didn't mind a few nasty cracks about the head. "You know Derek your shop with the funny roof looks awefully familiar. For some reason they are always showing pictures of your shop when they talk about opera on the TV.The world is a strange place for me. There are many things I don't understand.I some times follow the teachings of Jimmy Buffett in a case like this . . . when I am in a confused state and find I must turn to religion for shelter. JB has writen:" There's a cowboy in the jungle
And he looks so out of place
With his shrimpskin boots and his cheap cheroots
And his skin as white as paste Headin' south to Paraguay
Where the Gauchos sing and shout
Now he's stuck in Porto Bello
Since his money all ran out
So he hangs out with the sailors
Night and day they're raisin' hell
And his original destination's just another
Story that he loves to tell With no plans for the future
He still seems in control
From a bronco ride to a ten foot tide
He just had to learn to roll "rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Edited 9/23/2009 11:42 pm by roc
It looks like you need better dust collection!Ron
Now THAT is funny! Sad in reality for the residents, but funny as heck with the DC comment.
> horses two from Scotland? AND Two that imported from Mexico<Can you imagine if they had colts what their accents would sound like ? I can't either but I just had to say it.rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Roc,
This 'ere is the most-used and most-pleasing electric Big Tool in my shed. It's one of those Ypean tablesaws that seem to have no corresponding model in the US market (in terms of quality, features and price).
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The cross-cut capcity will (just) handle a full 8X4 sheet but also large and heavy planks. One improvement would be to have the sliding table move right next to the sawblade rather than down the left-hand edge of the table. In practice, it's not much of a drawback. The cross cut arm goes out to 1.5m (about 5 feet) from the blade.
The right hand side has a flop-down table extension, which allows cuts to the right of the blade up to 1m (3 feet and a bit).
The beast is solid and very accurate, due partly to the build quality but also because both the rip fence and the cross-cut fence sport micro-adjusters allowing 0.1mm accuracy and repeatability. It also has features that allow versatile operations. Here is the fence set up with hold-downs, a false face and with the blade set using a micro height measurement device to make a very accurate over-cut. The riving knife is of the Ypean blade-following type but also lies a couple of millimetres below the blade height.
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This saw costs around £1800 (inclusive of 15% sales tax). That's probably around $3000. It lacks only a saw-stop safety mechanism to be the ideal saw.
Lataxe, a blue & yeller chap.
>no corresponding model in the US market<
>micro-adjusters <Yep Yep ! You have heard me rant about the lack of that stuff here. Last I looked at the top consumer Deltas, once you unlock the fence it is free to squirrel all over the place as you slide it across the table. When ya lock it then it straightens up/squares up and moves back from where ya put it. Then it is guess and bump, guess and bump.Naaaah The old Deltas were better from the fifties/sixties with the solid, round, engraved, rails. Not better than yours just compared to recent Ds. Still were missing the micro-adjust but at least had the door knob "fine" adjuster, then.When I saw they had even eliminated that I said give me that poor little broken saw on the floor which was the price of the Unisaw fence and I will wait till they come to their senses. He said the motor on this saw will burn out in no time. I said I will buy another motor if that happens. Still have the same motor.Ha Ha Ha that store went out of business many years ago. Too full of Bull ***t to stay afloat I suppose.In other words if I come to visit someday for bike riding you may catch me gazing at your table saw with a covetous eye. ( wonder if I can sneak it out of the country in my luggage ? Let's see I am going to need a few more duffle bags . . . WHAT ? I didn't say anything. Just mumbling to myself. Yah that's the ticket . . .)>sliding table move right next to the sawblade<I know of what you speak. In this the Leguna has that option but cost SERIOUS money. $3000 would just about buy the optional sliding table option and one would still need a five thousand dollar saw to put it on ! It's crazy, just crazy. And after all that I think you still don't get micro adjusters but I haven't looked in years.ALLI am enjoying the tool posts. Don't take me too seriously I am just a spoiled metal turner pretending to be a wood worker. Sure is a lot to know about wood working. Makes metal working look simple.PS: Hey where did the pic of that hot looking person come from ? ? ? I gotta catch up on the other posts I am missing out.rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Edited 9/23/2009 9:47 pm by roc
General makes a primitive but effective micro-adjuster as a $50 add-on for their Biesemeyer type fence, plus a second one for PM and SS: http://www.general.ca/site_general/accessories/saw/50-055e.html
It uses a magnet that clamps on to the front rail, so it won't work on a fence such as the Steel City, where the fence's saddle straddles the front rail, including the spot where the magnet would go. Not sure about the Delta.
Jim
Wreck,
".....if I come to visit someday for bike riding ...."
Now, if you do come don't forget to bring the exotic wheels adorned in Very Expensive tubular tyres of at least 320tpi. I will only borrow them for a few thousand miles. Whilst you're at it, include one of these in your rucksack:
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Although I have acquired a part aluminium / part carbon fibre one, I wants that full carbon beast that Mr Specialized is not sending to the shores of Blighty as he knows we would use it to beat all his Murican cyclocross men.
That 3.48 llbs difference in weight atween my version and that shiney red one is so important!
***
of course, any attempt to make an unsupervised visit to my shed will result in a Terrible Retribution. Should a full body search by the ladywife (she uses oven gloves) reveal any concealed tools (especially Scheppachs or Marcous) the Terrible Retribution will have to include at least a year as Lataxe bench-slave. Duties include not just machine polishing but also sharpness testing via finger-use.
Lataxe, a sucker for shiney techno-objects.
Laytex,: )You DO live well !>Terrible Retribution will have to include at least a year as Lataxe bench-slave.<You must be the only penal institutions that blokes break into to stay rather than break out of to get away.It might be worth the hardship !rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Rack,
Perhaps this last favourite tool will enhance your desire to be chained to the bench with nowt but a polishing rag? I am getting the sense that you're a gleam-addict, like moi. :-)
This is the "minor" herd since expanded with the following additions (I have learnt to breed them) as well as a big bully jack plane.
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Now, these Marcous are rare and exotic beasts but also thoroughbreeds, as they outpace all other planes I have ever allowed through the shed door. A great planeporn fest can be enjoyed at Mr Marcou's website of course:
http://www.marcouplanes.co.nz/index.php/gallery
Lest you think the herd only grazes on tropical timbers (their natural habitat) here is a mini in the process of making it's own byre.
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Those mini items are a small box-makers dream; also the purfek planes for sorting out and fitting fine-sided drawers. Meanwhile the big rascals deal imperiously with all naughty-woods.
Lataxe, a herdsman.
Oh my gosh ! ! !Marcous to the max. They really look like they are from a different world. A world I could easily spend time in with out too much strain to my delicate constitution.TO ALLI am seeing lots of the same old " faces " which is great but not too many of the others I was hoping to encourage from the list I spoke of in the opening comment.Come on ! Bust out those cameras. Doesn't have to be a three thousand dollar hand plane to get my interest. As long as it makes you say " I love this thing " then I want to see it.Lataxe,Thanks for sharing ! Truly !I dooo like the shiny thaaangs.rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Here is the guy who made that chair I had as my screen saver that I was telling you about in this post :http://forums.taunton.com/fw-knots/messages?msg=48059.44 I ran across him again here so just had to put it uphttps://www.finewoodworking.com/profile/LauchleBreath taking chair ! ! !It is a shame the pic in the gallery is too small and too blurry when enlarged to see the detail in the carving. Must be in an article here in FWW that I got my pic and no doubt that article has better pic.Man oh man. Nice !rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Roc,
That chair is a scuttler and therefore needs to be burnt. However, the side table is a fine item but not as pleasing to my simple rectilinearness as this:
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It even has a limestone top!
Lataxe, who keeps an axe close by, to lop off scuttler legs (they might run of with a child otherwise).
>scuttler . . . (they might run of with a child otherwise).<I never realized ! Hey I like 'em even more now.Children ? Ahhh . . . yes . . . children. I like children. If they're well done. ( W.C. Fields )> rectilinearness and limestone<Yes that is quite nice. You are holding out on me about the maker. I must there for assume you have done the deed.rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Roc,
That fine thang with the limestone top was made by the very fellow who made the scuttler you like. The pic is from the same website. :-)
Lataxe
Roc,From 500 Chairs, this gets my vote for the most amazing chair.Chris @ http://www.flairwoodworks.com and http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com)
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
That is quite unique !I would say it is just a mater of time until flairwoodworks makes a chair at least as if not more amazing.rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
I'm just waiting for the inspiration to strike.Chris @ http://www.flairwoodworks.com and http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com)
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
Chris , wow that is very cool , now I can turn my old tarps into chairs
dusty
"I can turn my old tarps into chairs"Patio furniture?Chris @ http://www.flairwoodworks.com and http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com)
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
Chris,
Well...
That, (as Abe Lincoln once supposedly said,) is the sort of thing that people who like that sort of thing would really like.
As my brother says, it's a real good example of what it is.
Personally, I am speechless.
Ray
Edit to add:
As Ritchie Cunningham used to say, "Sit on it, Pottsie!"
Edited 10/1/2009 8:59 pm ET by joinerswork
(canvas and resin chair)That's just what we did with the sails from the square-rigger on which I came over. We didn't have to use resin, however, since the sails were salty enough to retain a form. ;-)
I know nothing about sailing but a machinist friend drives down to Florida every year to sail his boat.He said they had a dog on board and after a few days of heavy seas the dog was about in the same condition as them sails.Ha, ha, ha, aaahhhh, Ha, ha, ha, harocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Rocker,
I've been thinking and thinking. I finally came up with perhaps not my favorite tool, but one I have the most fun with.
Chi-kunk... chi-kunk... chi-kunk.
That's right, the brad nailer.
I'm even thinking of changing my name.
--B.N.
>I'm even thinking of changing my name<Jonnieboy,How are you ever going to explain to your sweet old Irish mother that from now on you wish to be calledChi-kunk?rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
What a funny middle name. Brad Chi-Kunk Naylor. Oh well, why not!
My mother? She had six kids, so she couldn't remember our names anyway.
--jonnieboy, I mean Brad! Rad-Brad!
Ha, ha, ha, aaahhhh, Ha, ha, ha, harocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
This rolling cart has to be up there:
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Wow ! That is a nice cart. I like the light in your shop from what I can see of it, nice and even.rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Thanks, Roc. When I was setting up my shop, I bought a bunch of used track light heads off eBay REAL cheap (most even came with bulbs!). I had to buy fresh track, which was less cheap, but not prohibitive. I then set up a string on each side of the shop for task/multiple angle lighting to augment the large flouresents. The great thing is that they can be aimed and moved, but also that when just set up around the place, they produce a decently even and warm light. Here's a picture where you can see the tracks (and the usual mess):
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>track light heads off eBay<And no brzzzrzzzrzzzrzzr. I got so tired of my buzzy florescents I unplug 'em and now I just use lights similar to yours but old school incandesents and lots of drafting lights on arms; even on movable floor stands.One thing is it looks like you are working in the same light your work will be viewed in when installed so better to judge visual qualites.I envy the people who have lots of windows. I haven't a window in my shop ( but is more secure that way ).rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
".........And no brzzzrzzzrzzzrzzr. I got so tired of my buzzy florescents........."
No kidding - me too. My solution, though - when we reolcated, and the shop moved, I got a bunch of higher-end fluorescent fixtures with no buzzing. Dead-silent. But - $$$. About $75 per 8' 4-lamp fixure (not including bulbs). What a relief - poor sun-of-a-gun that bought previous house also boght all the fluorescent noise.
Plus - I have incandescent spotlights on home-fab locking swing arms over the primary workbench - they live up near the joists, and can drop down to about 24" above the work surface.
FWIW - the spots' arms have a magnet on the ceiling end, and hang from an elec junction box cover plate. Other cover plates screwed into joists wherever I have needed the spots. I think I got this from a FWW Tips item.
I think bulb manufacturers are in cahoots with my optometrist. Keep needing new prescription for glasses, and more lights.
Sean,
That cart is suspiciously neat, tidy and dust-free. I suspect you have neglected to employ those tools enough and that they are huddled up in the drawers there all bored and fractious.
Send them here, where they will be integrated into Lataxe' shed and its Great Society of happy, playful tools. :-)
Lataxe, a magpie by instinct.
They are employed steadily, I assure you. One benefit of using these open top boxes on slides enclosed in a larger box is that it tends to seal out the dust.
I might be interested in trades, however.
My favorite tool is my refrigerator.
and pardora's on the 'puter.
Bill
Probably my old Yates- American 8'' patternmakers joiner.I really need to get past the emotional part and sell it since I have a 12'' American jointer that's better and I can't justify both by any means. Or maybe sell the 12", boy the old Yates is just so classy....This dilemma has only been ongoing for 15 years.
>only 15 years>Ha Ha.If there is any way to get a photograph up I am sure some of us who don't know the older machines would enjoy seeing the Yates.rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Sorry to not be able to post a photo of the old jointer. My only digital camera is disabled. The Yates I have was made in 1929 and is the three legged pattern that Northfield was making at least until a few years ago. Lots of cast iron and long tabled. The 12" American is of the same general style only even bigger [90" vs 86"]. The 12" isn't as nicely cast as the 8" and I've never been able to figure out it's age..
Roc:
Here are my two favorite things in my shop. My old bench dog and my new bench pup. I am still thinking about which of my tools is my favorite, but I will pick one today and take a picture of it. You have yourself a great day.
Mike
Aaaahhhh a little chocolate lab and a big one to look after it .Thanks for pic ! I like woofers .rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Roc;
My favorite electric machine in my shop would have to be my router table, mainly because I built it myself and is way nicer to use than the others I've had or used. The most useful machine in my shop would have to be my bandsaw (until a few years ago I would have said table saw) nothing exotic just a 14" Delta with a riser block, if I where buying tools over again the bandsaw would be at the top of the list. With hand tools it's hard too pick a favorite, I even like the ones I don't have yet, looking at Lataxe's pictures of his plane collection makes me drool, I think I have an addiction to hand planes. My block planes and shoulder planes probably see more use than the others. Then there are my Dozuki and Ryoba saws which are a pleasure to use. Well I should quit rambling here is a picture of my router table it usually has allot more sawdust around it, the shop is cleaned up right now as I am finishing a set of night tables I just finished building for the lady of the household, she helps with the finishing so the shop has to be clean. You have a great day.
Mike
Say ! That is a beautiful router table. Looks like it might be patterned some after Norm Abram's router table. I guess it is a very good sign when you have so many tools that you like a lot that it is impossible to pick just one.>Bandsaw verses table saw, first ( a person does need both; no argument there ).<The ability to resaw to lots of different thicknesses is very important to me. So I MUST have a bandsaw ( yah I resawed by hand for the first years; fun, fun, fun not ). To save the wood in the falling board and use it for some thing really appeals to me as opposed to chomping it up with a planer and throwing it away.rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Mike,
That is one nice router table, not to mention the doggers. I might come looking for you when I get to the router table project on my lengthy list.
Hey, are those Ridgid flip-top stands back there on your wall? Might I ask how long you've had them? The roller stands I've been using send the boards off in all directions. I've been looking high and low for some of those flippers. All I could guess is that they don't make them anymore, or I've been looking for them under the wrong name.
Finally, last weekend I had to make Flipper, The Friendly Sawhorse. I made him on the fly, because I had to run a few sheets of plywood through the saw.
I saw Krenov's sawhorse in the new issue of FWW, and thought maybe I could adapt Flipper to work with the Krenov-style sawhorses. Still, that's a lot of trouble. I'd rather be able to find some of the Ridgids.
Jonnieboy
Thanks Roc, when I built my router table I had never seen Norm's table (might have something to do with the fact that I only watch about two hours of TV per year), I looked at lots of different ones online, I guess they must have seen the New Yankee table, so I guess unknown to me at the time I did copy his design somewhat.
Thanks Jonnie, I've had those Ridgid stands for about four or five years now, but I just looked and they are still available at Home Depot . I built my router table last winter here is a link to the thread I posted in the Knots Gallery I posted a few different pictures through out that thread which kind of shows how I built it and built the mobile base that is under it. Hope this is of some help to you.
Thanks again for the kind words and you guys have a excellent day.
Mike
Mike,
Those pictures are great. I bookmarked the thread for future reference.
Thanks for the find on the Ridgids. I remember now I was having problems at the Home Depot website while looking for them. I even went to Ridgid's website itself and couldn't find them there. I'm starting to get the idea that I might be search engine challenged.
--jonnieboy
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