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Chips N Dust got a reaction from Artie in New layout tool -- speed square type tool for the cabinetmaker
You raise a great point Bill. This one tool does many things and can replace several others. If one were starting out, it might well be worth looking into and saving up to purchase this 1 tool rather than buy the "3 or 4" other tools this one could replace, one at a time.
I do like woodpeckers' one time tools, but they are sooooo spendy. (I understand the cost of setting up to make these "one time" tools, but the more popular ones should be something they make part of their regular line of offerings, IMHO
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from FlGatorwood in The Mid West Tool Collectors Association "What's It" Project
I am just being the devil's advocate here, but how do we really know there has not been a correct answer? If no one knows what the tool is, then someone could have had a correct answer already and we just do not know it...
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from FlGatorwood in Got one of those Lancelot rotary chain saw thingies
Yes, please do - my uncle got his hand cut up by one pretty bad one time- of course it could have been the fact that the other hand/arm was in a cast or the chair seat he was shaping was clamped to a metal stool, or he did not have the guard on the angle grinder. OR, it was a combination of ALL 3
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from FlGatorwood in How to Turn Inside Out
Very Nice! I always wondered how that was done. Thank you !
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from FlGatorwood in It Had to Happen
Good thing it just fell and nothing else happened
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from FlGatorwood in Turning Small
I was pretty impressed with the first one, but when you showed the chalice sitting on the key - HOLY SMOKES!!
Can you call an item that small a chalice? I always thought, although maybe incorrectly, that chalices are large.
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from HARO50 in Please Tell Me I Am Not the Only One!
I can feel your pain, but here is a question for all of you => When you are looking for something and then tell someone that it was in the last place you looked, did you keep looking after you found what you were looking for?
That is a pet peeve of mine. I mean really, of course you found it in the last place you looked. 99% stop looking once they find what they were looking for.
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from Al B in A Clean Shop is a Sign of a Sick Mind
Do you have a life line to help you find your way back out?
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from FlGatorwood in Cherry Box Project: Getting groovy
That is one beautiful piece! Do you make the grips?
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from FlGatorwood in A Clean Shop is a Sign of a Sick Mind
I thought it was clean as you go-go
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from FlGatorwood in A Clean Shop is a Sign of a Sick Mind
Do you have a life line to help you find your way back out?
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from FlGatorwood in Woodworking Plans
Some of here are beginners, others are pros, while others are in between. As we started woodworking we probably all followed a set of plans drawn up by someone. As our skills increase, we probably all rely less and less on plans than we once did. Thst being said, there are some of us that have a lot of artist in our brian and may not have needed plans even when you started woodworking. It is all about skill (native and/or learned) and comfort level. It is not right/wrong or indifferent, it is just who we are.
I do like plans, although I usually modify them somehow, because I do not have the time and or desire to sit down and start from scratch, although on certain shop projects I have stated from scratch with just a rough sketch.
So there is no right or wrong answer here, it is just what each of us likes, is comfortable with, and where we draw our inspirations from
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from FlGatorwood in Woodworking Plans
I am usually the same - I use plans, but always seem to make modifications somehow, somewhere. For me, plans are a HUGE time savings and as my skills improve, I will be able to rely less and less on plans made by someone else and more of my own. I guess that is the engineer in me - I like to follow a plan. Also, when I can't get into the shop for a while, it is easier to remember where I left off.
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from FlGatorwood in Epic Fail Optical Illusion Cutting Board
I just have 2 basic questions - 1: Will the product you are cutting stay on the board or will it roll off? 2: Isn't this board a safety hazard? Won't is mess with your depth perception and you take a chance of cutting yourself instead of what you intended to cut? Curious mind here...
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from FlGatorwood in Epic Fail Optical Illusion Cutting Board
I can see it. Looks great to me!
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from Cal in Epic Fail Optical Illusion Cutting Board
I just have 2 basic questions - 1: Will the product you are cutting stay on the board or will it roll off? 2: Isn't this board a safety hazard? Won't is mess with your depth perception and you take a chance of cutting yourself instead of what you intended to cut? Curious mind here...
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from JimM in What to mark with
I hope you do not mean the drinking kind, that would just be a waste
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from p_toad in Putting stuff away?
This makes a lot of sense with all of that equipment there. I do not really know what it is, but I can only imagine what would happen is something was left in the machine, similar to the airplane mechanic. This is a quick "Did I pick up everything?" check
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from FlGatorwood in Lincoln rocker
Nice little return on investment. Also, a nice looking rocker
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from FlGatorwood in What's your favorite?
Maple and oak are the 2 that I have used the most
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Chips N Dust got a reaction from FlGatorwood in Always think "What If?"
Ralph Jones said:
So please keep in mind that anything can happen and think ahead of any possible accident by looking around and thinking "What If."
This is so true - and for the situational awareness, that is not just around the shop or home, but EVERYWHERE you go. Be aware of your surroundings and who and what are around you.
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