Thread: That awkward moment when ...

Don't despair, you're thinking ahead.

I totally fail to see what the problem is. I've got ambitious drills like that, they'll have to be turned down so I can use them.


Anyway, adapters are for wimps, get a really big lathe.

reminds me of people selling 1/20th scale model furniture at full scale prices without stating that it is a scale model. people receive the package, open it up to find that the 6 drawer tallboy they ordered fits in the palm of there hand

I've never made a mistake like that!

My mistake was at a live auction. I at a clearing sale following the auctioneer down the lines of goods on the ground as I had my eyes on a full size blacksmith's anvil. Anyhow I got a little distracted by something and then heard the word anvil. $2 was the call and of course I put up the hand and it was knocked down to me. I was ecstatitc.

Then the crowd moved on to the next lot, which as it turned out was the blacksmith's anvil I had coveted.

I had bough a piece of heavy railway iron on three legs made of pipe.

It's been really useful for more than twenty years and I still have it .

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

I had bough a piece of heavy railway iron on three legs made of pipe.
Paul

So ... do you want to make a very large hole in it?

Paul

Is that a union X plane that came with the lot, or was the lot drills only?

Originally Posted by D.W.

Is that a union X plane that came with the lot, or was the lot drills only?

Correct. I was very taken by the standing post adjuster ... we don't get that around here.
And the price was good.

It was all part of a ... 20150908_150750.jpg

Nice - I see the brass strap on the bottom of that handsaw handle, too! Peace?

I've only had the non-X union, but I've got too many planes as it is (I sold that one, but it was a perfectly fine plane) and don't use metal for much these days so that ship has sailed, I guess.

Originally Posted by seanz

Anyway, adapters are for wimps, get a really big lathe.

Ok. Sorted.

lathe.jpg

26" faceplate. Nice.

Is that a pen turning lathe

Originally Posted by Simplicity

Is that a pen turning lathe

I think so: Penultimate.

Regards
Paul

I thought so