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How old are they. Anything over a year will blow out like that. Found out the hard way. Had stocked up on belts a couple years ago and about a year later when I needed them, they all let go at the...

The canted fluted corners are cut on the bandsaw as close as possible and then finished off with spokeshave and chisels. The flutes are carved with a gouge. Then all sanded to finished state...
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Oh ya!! To add to the total failure of execution of design... Who the $%^& puts leather pulls on a George III Tallboy!!! I do LOL. I like them actually. The first 8, on the two bottom units,...

I had acquired a few western saw over the last decade (over my life I've never used anything but Japanese saws until recently) and wanted to build a drawer to keep them in. I didn't want a saw till...

Might have been mentioned, though haven't seen it.

Store open CA glue in the freezer. Will keep for years. The thick glue will need to be brought out and warmed a bit but will still be good once...

Have you looked into whether a lose horn is common in Europe? I wonder if the Aussie hardwoods are a contributor in that you need to push so hard to get through them. Whereas Douglas Fir, Pine,...

Probably something similar to what happens in the US. A bunch of dead folks, good and bad.

If guns are readily available to the public, the scum bags have better access...

What I think is the...

Ya, thought it was in pretty good shape. Mine hasn't seen much work but looks rougher... But, doesn't matter, he raised the price so no idea where it'll end up.

Never seen that before. Not sure what I did wrong but it didn't go well. The same residue formed on wood also as I tried to pad a sealer on. Ended up scraping all of it off. Also noticed, if I...

Skip it. He's raising the price

There was a 20/20 like show many years ago that did a piece on a university that was testing the armed bystander theory that guns save lives... They assigned one preparator that would pull the gun...

For the head loupe I'd say get glass if you can. Refractive quality and consistency is slightly better, but even more important, the scratch resistance is massive by comparison. I'm very religious...

My degrading eyesight regime:

In pic I always use these glasses, they're good to about a metre. They're the cheapest I could buy so for the most part, deposable. I don't invest much money it...

Not mine, on market place, pretty good price...


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So last night I did a tally on costs and what the eleven I'm keeping cost me. All up ~$45 each. That includes the cost for two 300mm diamond disks... If I remove that, as they're an expense that...

LOL. Bad choice of words. They're mandarins, and they're... orange!:U

Books are funny like that. The prices swing wildly. Maybe it was signed of something to attract such a price. Amazon is selling it for $180AUD.

It's also at archive.org on one hour loan.

I...

I have two mandarin trees I grew from seed. Been told recently that's not a good idea to grow from seed... They're about 10 years old and I've only gotten 12 huge oranges off them two years ago. ...

Curius if anyone went and had a look...

That's why I wanted to get a builder. I could easily do it myself, but I've got, at the moment, the best job I've had in 20 years. If I pull the pin and leave for six months, I lose my position as...

Truth be told it will be - even for you!

More like Ikea (TM) on nitrocellulose and gun oil.

I see a major problem with the table though. Where's the merican gonna put the other 7 assault rifles and 15 handguns. And the 50cal is gonna...

A general reply:

I think most of the replies missed where I said I've been in the building industry for a very long time. Now I didn't mention this in the first post but after 45 years, ya kinda...

You wouldn't have been anywhere near that if you hadn't finished the interior. I don't want them to do floors, walls, cabinets, plumbing, painting, finish carpentry... It's just a shell without...

No, I provided full drawings of the extension and the plans and engineers reports of the existing house.

So I want to put an extension on the house. Plan is keep working to offset costs, and even though I've been in the building industry for 45 years I've religiously avoided the administration side of...

There's got to be a maga hat there somewhere.

First pic is the result. Could do a lot better but I'm not that interested in taking the time. It'll come good as I lap the back over time.

Next is my grinder with the MDF wheel on it. It's...

Scoured the world for Marples/Ward chisels from the early 1900s. I've been able to assemble a set in 1/8 increments (thx Woodsurfer and Pat for the last instalments). All the steel has been cleaned...

That's a damn nice bowl. A true centre piece on a table. But even then, sometimes the grain of the wood needs to take a backseat to the intended outcome of the turning. In your case no - brilliant...

You don't need a shipping container. Just need a crate. When I was there I was planning on setting up a business with the bother inlaw in Canada... I'd package and list everything on ebay and all...

Just a heads up to y'all. I had a peruse through the late March offerings - looks tasty.

The UK is awash in old tools. For the most part, by comparison to the rip off prices demanded here, they're giving them away.

I used to go around all the car boot sales, and even the antique...

Yup, bad choice of words LOL. Reading some of the posts it came across as some took my saying it's ugly wood personally. Saying it's only an opinion was an attempt to say there is little to no...

Only an opinion folks!!

Just to clarify. I don't consider turned pieces as furniture. For me it's an entirely different craft that has it's own rules regarding choice of wood.

But I'll say...

Me thinks so, and yes bone handle.

I was thinking more of a striking knife but forgot the name earlier.

It's an, to each their own, sort of taste. I think the wood is ugly beyond anything. For me personally I couldn't stomach making any sort of decent furniture out of it. YMMV

It's its like every...

They seemed to take far more pride in making tools that were visually appealing. Veritas are probably the best modern tools but damn are they ugly.

This isn't a woodworking tool but could...

And the government encouraged everyone to rip it out and down at all costs... You couldn't even give it away as firewood it was such a lousy wood... Now guys are trying to flog slabs of it for...

Just wondering how many pen blanks I could cut that into... :C

Went well for me! I didn't go. But Pat saw my request and obliged... He grabbed 4 Marples chisels for me! Thx Pat.

It worked well, from my end at least. He sent a pic and I said yup, and...

See above, reviewed my estimate.

On a side note. Not knocking anyone but it's kinda funny to me that I've never looked at any of my planes in 40 years to see if they were flat till now. Though...

Ya went back and had a closer look... I was a wee bit out estimating by eye... Using paper as a rough gauge, that is supposed to be 0.1mm, the gaps are definitely not 0.5mm but they're probably...

This conversation had me thinking about my planes. I have five go to planes spanning 40 plus years: 1) Bedrock 605 with PM11 blade. Been the go to for at least 35 years. 2) Veritas Rabbet Plane...

Is anyone going that I can team up with. I'm not going to drive down there but if someone is going and can txt me pics of marples chisels that fit a very specific criteria... I can transfer money...

I'll just leave it with this thought, you can get into the minutia of all that isn't important... But to put it simply: The best furniture made was for the most part made in the 17 and 1800s... I...

Sort of LOL. Friend had a real and new scalpel that I used to dig out a sliver. I was quite surprised at how easy it was to push and slice into skin and flesh and how deep it went :o. It was quite...

Scrap this. I'll buy a shovel handle and repurpose it.

The quest is nearlyy complete. Though I'm still looking, let me know as some of these will be culled as I determine steel quality...

I originally wanted to stick with the handle on the far right...