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kmealy last won the day on August 23 2023
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"There is hardly anything in this world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and those people who consider price only, are this man's lawful prey." John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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Forgot to say, when I made some hexagonal boxes, I set an adjustable fence with a 30-60-90 drafting triangle.
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50 Of Shakespeare’s Most Famous Quotes 1. ‘To be, or not to be: that is the question’ (Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1) 2. ‘All the world ‘s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.’ (As You Like it Act 2, Scene 7) 3. ‘Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?’ (Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2) 4. ‘Now is the winter of our discontent’ (Richard III Act 1, Scene 1) 5. ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?’ (Macbeth Act 2, Scene 1) 6. ‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’ (Twelfth Night Act 2, Scene 5) 7. ‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.’ (Julius Caesar Act 2, Scene 2) 8. ‘Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.’ (The Tempest Act 1, Scene 2) 9. ‘A man can die but once.’ (Henry IV, Part 2 Act 3, Part 2) 10. ‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!’ (King Lear Act 1, Scene 4) 11. ‘Frailty, thy name is woman.’ (Hamlet Act 1, Scene 2) 12. ‘If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?’ (The Merchant of Venice Act 3, Scene 1) 13. ‘I am one who loved not wisely but too well.’ (Othello Act 5, Scene 2) 14. ‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks’ (Hamlet Act 3, Scene 2) 15. ‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’ (The Tempest Act 4, Scene 1) 16. ‘Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’ (Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5) 17. ‘Beware the Ides of March.‘ (Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2) 18. ‘Get thee to a nunnery.’ (Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1) 19. ‘If music be the food of love play on.‘ (Twelfth Night Act 1, Scene 1) 20. ‘What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet.’ (Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2) 21. ‘The better part of valor is discretion’ (Henry IV, Part 1 Act 5, Scene 4) 22. ‘To thine own self be true.‘ (Hamlet Act 1, Scene 3) 23. ‘All that glisters is not gold.’ (The Merchant of Venice Act 2, Scene 7) 24. ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.’ (Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 2) 25. ‘Nothing will come of nothing.’ (King Lear Act 1, Scene 1) 26. ‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’ (A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 1, Scene 1) 27. ‘Lord, what fools these mortals be!’ (A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 1, Scene 1) 28. ‘Cry “havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war‘ (Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 1) 29. ‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.’ (Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2) 30. ‘A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!‘ (Richard III Act 5, Scene 4) 31. ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’ (Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5) 32. ‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.’ (A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 1, Scene 1) 33. ‘The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.’ (Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2) 34. ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ (Sonnet 18) 35. ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.’ (Sonnet 116) 36. ‘The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones.’ (Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 2) 37. ‘But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.’ (Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2) 38. ‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.’ (Hamlet Act 1, Scene 3) 39. ‘We know what we are, but know not what we may be.’ (Hamlet Act 4, Scene 5) 40. ‘Off with his head!’ (Richard III Act 3, Scene 4) 41. ‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.’ (Henry IV, Part 2 Act 3, Scene 1) 42. ‘Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.’ (The Tempest Act 2, Scene 2) 43. ‘This is very midsummer madness.’ (Twelfth Night Act 3, Scene 4) 44. ‘Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.’ (Much Ado about Nothing Act 3, Scene 1) 45. ‘I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.’ (The Merry Wives of Windsor Act 3, Scene 2) 46. ‘We have seen better days.’ (Timon of Athens Act 4, Scene 2) 47. ‘I am a man more sinned against than sinning.’ (King Lear Act 3, Scene 2) 48. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit.‘ (Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2) 49. ‘This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle… This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.’ (Richard II Act 2, Scene 1) 50. ‘What light through yonder window breaks.’ (Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2)
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I'm reading a "vintage" FWW issue that talks about the steps to dimension a piece of lumber. I always learned this as FEW TEL, whether doing by hand, machine, or combination. F - flatten one Face on a jointer or by plane E - flatten one Edge on a jointer or by plane W - cut piece to Width, parallel to the prior edge with table saw or hand saw T - plane to even Thickness on planer or hand plane E - square cut one End L - cut to Length
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Friday April 18th, 2025-What's on Your Weekend Agenda?
kmealy replied to Larry Buskirk's topic in General Woodworking
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When I made my bench from a Tage Frid plan, I used the guideline to make the top even with your palms flat and at your side. Once I got ready to assemble, I realized there was an error in the plan. Fortunately, it just meant cutting some new tenons in the top of the legs. Then I realized why the bench I'd been using, one that I inherited when a prior apartment tenant left it, always gave me a back ache. It was way too short.
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Good Monday Morning Patriot Woodworkers! April 14, 2025
kmealy replied to John Morris's topic in General Woodworking
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I did the reverse, I made the workbench to the appropriate height then raised my table saw up to meet it. When I use other table saws, they're always too low. But I'm a tall guy.
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I don't know if this would help but to mark out a hexagon inscribed in a circle. Set a compass and draw a circle Without changing the compass step off points around the circumference Connect the points
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kmealy reacted to a post in a topic: Hexagonal plaque?
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A good short article. Answer: it depends on what you are doing. My guideline has always been hip, navel, and nipple.
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Here's one, but I've always been amazed how the saws grew so much they didn't fit any more. Maybe signaling the decline of PopWood. https://www.popularwoodworking.com/article/authentic-sloyd-tool-cabinet/
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Friday April 11th, 2025-What's on Your Weekend Agenda?
kmealy replied to Larry Buskirk's topic in General Woodworking
Weekend 4 of Beetlejuice Jr. set construction.