March 16, 20215 yr Popular Post comment_260821 Admire the Stanley 45 work/use(as well as everything else). Excellent project. Report
March 16, 20215 yr Popular Post comment_260850 That is looking fine. Are you now going to have a contest with @steven newman on how fast you can do a build? Report
March 16, 20215 yr Popular Post comment_260861 Looking good John. Funny, I was on Pinterest last night and came across massive cabinets for crafts storage and was joking with my wife about them. Look forward to seeing the finished product. Report
March 17, 20215 yr Author Popular Post comment_260876 23 hours ago, FrederickH said: Admire the Stanley 45 work/use(as well as everything else). Excellent project. Thanks Frederick! Report
March 17, 20215 yr Author Popular Post comment_260877 16 hours ago, Gerald said: That is looking fine. Are you now going to have a contest with @steven newman on how fast you can do a build? Not how fast (I got a day job, he's retired), but how clean? Bring it on! Report
March 17, 20215 yr Author Popular Post comment_260878 13 hours ago, 1fizgig said: Look forward to seeing the finished product. Thanks Fiz, I'll make more progress this weekend! Report
March 20, 20215 yr Author Popular Post comment_261218 Spent a little time yesterday on our poplar cabinet, I finished grooving two doors worth of rail and stile's for the raised panel doors. I took the glued up smaller panels and joined them, and glued them up to form two larger panels. I joined two edges together at the same time, you'll see two shavings coming from my jointer. This way, even if my iron is slightly off, and the edges are not square, it won't matter, all I do is flip one board 180 for the glue up, and the boards will join straight. Two panels below, for two doors, top and bottom doors of the cabinet. I moved on to the door frames now, I am doing haunched tenons on the rails, with the mortise on the stiles. I marked everything out first. A little trick I learned recently, knife cut the cut lines, and chisel some waste out, before cutting the tenon. Another trick I picked up along the way a few years back, can't remember where, perhaps on the Lie Nielsen website where I purchased the saw from, but as you cut, you can keep your eye on the mirrored reflection, if the reflection is angled, so is your cut, if the reflection is straight, so is your cut. Your cut is angled right. Your cut is angled left. Your cut is straight. With the tenons cut, I marked out the mortises in the stiles and went to chopping with my 1/4" mortiser. That's it for now folks! Thanks for following along! Report
March 23, 20215 yr comment_261452 On 3/16/2021 at 6:39 AM, John Morris said: I am off the prednisone (Thank God!) John, be wary of the prednisone. My wife ended up bone on bone in both knees, and the orthopedic surgeon said it was because of the prednisone she had taken over the years for her asthma. She wound up in a wheelchair full time before she passed. He said it had been well known for years to cause degradation of the cartilage of the knees. Nobody told us that at the time. Report
March 25, 20215 yr Author Popular Post comment_261547 On 3/23/2021 at 9:01 AM, PostalTom said: John, be wary of the prednisone. My wife ended up bone on bone in both knees, and the orthopedic surgeon said it was because of the prednisone she had taken over the years for her asthma. She wound up in a wheelchair full time before she passed. He said it had been well known for years to cause degradation of the cartilage of the knees. Nobody told us that at the time. 10-4 brother, fortunately have not been on pred for sometime now, thank God! It was nasty, but in reality, it saved my life. Report
April 3, 20215 yr Author Popular Post comment_262479 I was building single doors, mama thought I was building double doors. Guess who won on that design change? Grooving out four more stiles. Report
April 3, 20215 yr Popular Post comment_262493 I think now you can officially called a "galoot" (history of this was an e-mail group 25+ years ago. Some of the members started calling hand tool enthusiasts "neanderthals." We wore that name with pride and eventually spun off an "Oldtools" group) Report
April 4, 20215 yr Author Popular Post comment_262503 2 hours ago, kmealy said: I think now you can officially called a "galoot" (history of this was an e-mail group 25+ years ago. Some of the members started calling hand tool enthusiasts "neanderthals." We wore that name with pride and eventually spun off an "Oldtools" group) Gee thanks Keith! galoot NOUN NORTH AMERICAN SCOTTISH informal a clumsy or oafish person (often as a term of abuse). synonyms: idiot · arse · halfwit · nincompoop · blockhead · buffoon · dunce · dolt · ignoramus · cretin · imbecile · dullard · moron · simpleton · clod · dope · ninny · chump · dimwit · nitwit · goon · dumbo · dummy · dum-dum · dumbbell · loon · jackass · bonehead · [more] Report
April 4, 20215 yr Popular Post comment_262507 I have to laugh as that term was used by my grandfather on more then one occasion (sometimes about me). Report
April 4, 20215 yr Popular Post comment_262512 Well John, I got to side with mama on this one. I was thinking double doors all along... Report
April 4, 20215 yr Popular Post comment_262516 10 hours ago, John Morris said: idiot · arse · halfwit · nincompoop · blockhead · buffoon · dunce · dolt · ignoramus · cretin · imbecile · dullard · moron · simpleton · clod · dope · ninny · chump · dimwit · nitwit · goon · dumbo · dummy · dum-dum · dumbbell · loon · jackass · bonehead · Report
April 4, 20215 yr Author comment_262589 17 minutes ago, PostalTom said: John, did you change your profile picture? No? Report
April 5, 20215 yr comment_262593 But galoot was taken as a badge of honor. See #9 https://swingleydev.com/archive/faq.html So, you'll be using Dominos to join the rails and stiles???? Ted Cassidy was a fellow acromegliac. I had surgery for that two years ago this month. Edited April 5, 20215 yr by kmealy Report
April 5, 20215 yr Author Popular Post comment_262599 2 hours ago, kmealy said: So, you'll be using Dominos to join the rails and stiles???? Ha! Surely you jest! Mortise and tenons, the old fashioned way! Report
April 5, 20215 yr Popular Post comment_262651 10 hours ago, John Morris said: Ha! Surely you jest! Mortise and tenons, the old fashioned way! But, but, but........? Report
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