Thread: Building a Navigator yawl

Hi Rob,

Quick query re the honing guide on waterstones: does the wheel score the stones appreciably? I was sufficiently concerned about that to banish the guide to a very safe distance from the WSs!

Cheers,
Alex.

The roller will only be a problem if it is pressed too hard, especially if you use the same forward and back motion, without varying its path. So it's no biggy, Alex, as long as you relax with the tool and let a nice fluid motion across the slurry do the cutting, not your downwards pressure.
And the stones are thick and easy to flatten if necessary, so when you start out it's probably better to risk a mistake by relaxing and being fluid, than worrying about the stone and being tense. Get the tools out of the box and make a few mistakes. You were going to do that eventually anyway; nice to have them under your belt. What's the worst that can happen?


Stones are sacrificial objects, cast onto the altar of our creativity, giving their lives in the creation of wooden objects Every time you sharpen a tool, a stone somewhere suffers for your craft . Craftspeople have to live with the shocking reality of carnage, abrasion and erosion Support the Waterstone Liberation Front (WLF) (Not the United Front for the Liberation of Waterstones [UFLW]- they are splitters)

Hi Rob,

You've hit the nail right on the head! As soon as I get near a sharpening stone/knife combination, I start to panic and tense up. What's the worst that can happen? Simple! Like my reed-scraping knives, the blades will be ruined! I'll put up a photo of the worst of my knives when I've dug 'em out.

Got to beware of splitters: bunch o' heretics, the lot of 'em .

Still, I have read and absorbed what you've advised, i.e., try and relax into it, so that is what I'll do. Or try to do!

Cheers,
Alex.

Originally Posted by rob540

Stones are sacrificial objects, cast onto the altar of our creativity, giving their lives in the creation of wooden objects Every time you sharpen a tool, a stone somewhere suffers for your craft . Craftspeople have to live with the shocking reality of carnage, abrasion and erosion Support the Waterstone Liberation Front (WLF) (Not the United Front for the Liberation of Waterstones [UFLW]- they are splitters)

Can I have a glass of whatever it is you're drinking?

Richard

Originally Posted by Daddles

Can I have a glass of whatever it is you're drinking?

Richard

My computer keyboard had some of it this arvo, and immediately fluttered heavenwards. Oops...

Just remember Alex, it's not an official hijack until we get an entire page of posts without him referring to the actual object of the thread

Richard

He's trying to confuse me Alex. He understands how little it takes to make me descend into utter silliness. (I've always thought Being Silly could be a worthy life-times work, but I get distracted from it. Not many people, after all, are still Goonshow fans

What what what what what





5 watts - he's not very bright


You're not alone, Rob, we just tend to keep it under our hats (we're teh silly ones who still wear hats)

Originally Posted by Daddles

Just remember Alex, it's not an official hijack until we get an entire page of posts without him referring to the actual object of the thread

Richard

Only need a couple more posts to achieve this, I reckon.

Originally Posted by jmk89

What what what what what

i...i...iz that you Neddy?..? They have me tied up in a thread...



I'll see you one silly and raise you some rudder box mock up.

Originally Posted by rob540

He's trying to confuse me Alex. He understands how little it takes to make me descend into utter silliness. (I've always thought Being Silly could be a worthy life-times work, but I get distracted from it. Not many people, after all, are still Goonshow fans :C

Heh :). Another one here, although it's years since I listened to one. We've got a compendium of Spike Milligan's work around, including the Q8 Dalek script ;). Actually, that quip of yours seemed to be more "Life of Brian" than Goon, but Monty Python wouldn't have been Monty Python without the Goons' trailblazing (and that of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Hillaire Belloc, and diverse Surrealists, etc., etc., etc., of course... ;). Must go back and look at the lovely boat snaps, I'm getting distracted myself, a naughty alex so it is.

Originally Posted by Daddles

Just remember Alex, it's not an official hijack until we get an entire page of posts without him referring to the actual object of the thread

Richard

I've done my bit to muddy the waters, but maybe not enough . Shall ponder this .