Thread: When is fine too fine?

Originally Posted by jimbur

Should people be allowed to start threads on a Monday?
cheers,
Jim

Probably not without looking at a calendar and taking into account the time difference to the USA.

Originally Posted by pampelmuse

Probably not without looking at a calendar and taking into account the time difference to the USA.

Spot on. Told you I was tired.
cheers,
JIm

Did you see how they made that?

"Slump formed with geothermal steam" - I vote that we ask the moderators for a new section on here for all the geothermal steam slump forming afficionados !

I wonder who will be the first to make a pen using this technique

Cheers,
Andrew

Almost as bad as that cloud of apathy heading for Australia that Mike Willesee had every body in a panic some years ago.

Originally Posted by jimbur

...."In recent years, consumer focus on plane performance has changed, and not necessarily in a good way. All over the globe, woodworkers have become enchanted with just how thin a shaving they can produce while planing, not realizing how inefficient this has made woodworking. In fact, there is now less fine furniture being made than there was just a few short years ago. No wonder – it can take up to ten times longer to bring a surface to final dimension, when taking as little as a tenth of a thou per pass"
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The neat thing about humour is that it's often just stating the bleeding obvious. I've long thought there is excessive fuss about thin shavings. If the wood will take it, crank the sucker out for a full cut & have at it, I say......

Cheers,