Thread: A Polishers Handbook

G'day Ren,
I bought mine from AWW they have really good service.
Dod

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As you are in Melbourne, you could try Carba-Tec Richmond or Woodworking Warehouse Breaside.

Hope this helps

Cheers - Neil

Sorry Ren I used the wrong letters "AWW". Should have been AaWR Australian Wood REview. Their phone number is 07 3806 2288.
I ordered a book two days before Christmas and it arrived in time. I spoke to Tanya.
Regards
Dod

Carba-Tec sell the book.

Cheers.

Thank you all for your help.
I can't wait to read it.
Renato

The book is generally good but there are some discrepancies which should be addressed on the page of common measurements

So what the hells wrong with these Common Measurements?

UNDERSTANDING FINE & COARSE MEASUREMENTS
As used by woodworkers is sheds, garages and workshops throughout Australia.
Compiled by Neil Ellis for National Woodworkers Calendar 1997

Hairsbreath: Smallest measurement. If you can find it, you can use it - approx 1 millionths of a micro millimetre.
Foofteenth: much bigger - 25 micro mm
Gnatshair: 15 Foofteenths
Gnatsdick: not an exact measurement. Usually between 10 - 20 Gnatshairs (dependant upon how well hung the Gnat is)
Beesdick: the most commonly used fine measurements (usually bigger than a Gnatsdick, but not always) 1/100th mm or there about.
Fairy’s fart: all encompassing measurement - covers all sizes below .25mm.
A metrik: one millimetre (mm)
A Smidgen: also called a Smidg - 7.35mm but 7mm is near enough.
A Tad: 1.3 centimetres
A Touch: two Tads
A Bit: three Smidgens
A Little Bit: 15 Smidgens or there about
Heaps: also called Lots - 10 Tads, 1 Smidg & a Metrik
Stacks: also called Lots more - 5 Heaps
Bags: also known as Bagful - 350 Tads
Bulls Roar: 734 metres - almost exactly 1,000 smidgen or there about
Klick: 1 Kilometre
Country Mile: 3.218 Klicks
Thick as a Brick: a brickies measurement that should never used in woodwork
Thick as 2 planks: 984cm from beam to beam.
Beam: hunk of wood too long and too cumbersome for one person to handle alone.

And also

A BIT - unit of measure, which, when removed is usually a bit too much.

Hope the last posting wasn't a bit too much.

Cheers - Neil

Geez, Bloody Perfectionists!!!!

Also, the Pick Handle, a unit of length, as in six pick handles across the acre.

While admitting Neil’s Handbook is a great buy despite the missing definitions, I would like to point out another deficiency.

In the section under glues, there appears to be one glaring omission. While never having personally used Wheatbix to glue up any actual jobs I believe its adhesive properties must be way out front of anything else on the market. How many of you have, like me, spent hours trying to get the damned stuff off the kids high chairs finally having to resort to chipping it off with a knife! No marketplace glue would stick to chrome like that! Must be a market out there for an entrepreneur!


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