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    Default Houston Lie Nielsen Hand Tool Event

    The second of our scheduled demonstrations was done this past week at Kellog Furniture Designs in Houston. Clark Kellog, the proprietor, has a very nice custom furniture shop in the museum district of Houston and has graciously hosted the LNHTE several times over the years. Here's some pictures.




    He has some pretty impressive equipment in the place. This is an Oliver 12" jointer.



    A nice selection of hand tools on display.




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    Given the noise involved the demo was banished to the outdoors so everybody who was inside came outside to watch. I only got part way through working a kink out of a saw brought in by another demonstrator before the noise was deemed too loud for the neighborhood.




    Nonetheless, there was a lot of interest in the information we presented.



    As in Dallas, more saws were sold than hammers but it was a very enjoyable and profitable trip.
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    Rob

    "Looking good Huston."

    But hammering a saw was too noisy for the neighbourhood? Oh dear: I don't think they'd like me very much .

    I was just thinking back to today's activities. I was ripping a small log into boards with a chain saw and a home made mill. I did wait until the closest neighbour's grandson jumped onto their ride on mower before springing into action myself. It did disguise the noise a little.

    Then I jointed and thicknessed the timber until dark. Had to do that as the chainsaw doesn't produce a super even finish for stacking and drying. Luckily the property closest to the shed is vacant at the moment. This is quite lucky as my shed only has three walls and it is difficult to keep the noise in.

    Even if you are only selling saws and not the hammers, the marketing is working and clearly adds both credibility as well as gimmick to the mix. I say "gimmick" in the nicest of ways as "point of difference" might be a better description.

    Thanks for the pictures again.

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    Hi Paul,

    I've found that people are hungriest for the information. Several guys talked to me for more than an hour each about the hammer tensioning process and the results of the studies. Likewise, the LN staff was busy all day at both shows demonstrating how to use their sharpening rig and stones.

    cheers,
    Rob
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    Looks like I was wrong, somebody else is making sawsmithing hammers. Machines hammers, or Saw hammers, are great for leveling and tensioning saw plate
    Time to raise prices.
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    Default Coming, but not soon, Beryllium Copper sawsmithing hammers

    Picked these up the other day on eBay. 1.125" Be-Cu Alloy 25 rounds. Should make 4 or 5 No. 1 sawsmithing hammers.

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    Alloy 25 is age hardenable to ~ HRC 45. Extremely strong (~220 ksi) and tough. The material has two drawbacks however, first is that Beryllium is toxic and causes chronic beryllium disease if inhaled or consumed. In the massive form it's 'safe'. The second problem is that it's very expensive. To make a No. 3 hammer will take about $60US in material.
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    Beryllium is interesting.

    In the past we have used spanners made from it as it does not create sparks. Good for Hydrogen environments.

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