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Thread: why didn,t someone tell me
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1st April 2008, 09:47 PM #1human termite
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why didn,t someone tell me
why didn,t someone tell me that i need ,and should have a thicknesser?.what a peice of machinery. i have never seen one working before ,cant imagine how i got by without one.now that i have one .i have thicknessed everything thats not bolted down today,and tomorrow i will unbolt everything i missed today and thickness it as well. if i died tomorrow at least i will die happy............bob
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1st April 2008, 10:05 PM #2Senior Member
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I thought that, to be eligable to post on this forum you must have a thicknesser. Isn't it like to join a Mini club, you must have a Mini?
Don't tell me you don't have a joiner as well?
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1st April 2008, 10:10 PM #3
Got to agree Bob, I've just embarked on my first thicknesser journey and i can't work out how i got by without one.
Like you i soon discovered that i had a large pile of shavings and no spare pieces of wood left in the workshop. I need to buy some more wood (all slightly over size of course)Those were the droids I was looking for.
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1st April 2008, 10:17 PM #4Senior Member
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My life seems to be going in reverse. Years ago I had a jointer, thicknesser, band saw, table saw etc etc to play with [though not mine] and now I just have a few bits and pieces. And I know what I am missing!
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1st April 2008, 10:24 PM #5
We did tell you! even if it was only the other day. How to turn shity old bits of scrap into b-ute-iful timber. I planed up an old wall stud the other day for a little project I was doing for my parents. It turned out to be 10feet of dead straight tallowood, looked fantastic. Of course now you have a thicknesser you will need a metal detector (for nails) if you clean up recycled timber.
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1st April 2008, 10:25 PM #6human termite
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1st April 2008, 10:30 PM #7human termite
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i filled my dusty bag to the top with huon pine shavings smells like tassie now.bob
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1st April 2008, 10:35 PM #8GOLD MEMBER
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I know the feeling. Looked at the tech school workshop where the nearest woodwork club meets, eyed the joiner and thicknesser and joined the club to learn how to use them. Arrived at the first meeting with a boothful of pallet wood. A kind fellow showed me how and off I went. Two hours later I was politely told that they would have an immediate use for the 2x4s I had made all square and shiny if I did not stop bashing their ears...
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1st April 2008, 11:11 PM #10Senior Member
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2nd April 2008, 09:17 AM #12Skwair2rownd
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Thicknesser
Bob, there's asimple answer to your question: You never asked!!!
Don't worry its on my to get list.
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2nd April 2008, 09:21 AM #13GOLD MEMBER
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Oh ye of little faith! They were the 'new' pallets the lathe and bandsaw came on, and I had ripped them apart myself, all nails removed and accounted for! I'm an accountant, you know?
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2nd April 2008, 09:56 AM #14
Sawdust Maker
This site continues to amaze me or confirms that I am an idiot. Because of my poor eyesight, when I am working in the paddock or some machinery and I drop a screw or something I have great difficulty trying to locate the object on the ground or in the grass.
While all the time I had hanging in my shed a Carb a Tec metal detector.
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2nd April 2008, 10:02 AM #151/16"
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Star, make that 2 idiots
I never thought of that use eitherDon't force it, use a bigger hammer.
Timber is what you use. Wood is what you burn.