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    Finally!

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    What sense of humor? It is a real product,isn't it? I mean,it isn't April Fools day yet.

    Well,I'm not in the tallow rubbing club.

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    One can never have too many planes and chisels... or so I'm learning!!

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    I must've missed that memo. Still use it on my wooden planes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by george wilson View Post
    What sense of humor? It is a real product,isn't it? I mean,it isn't April Fools day yet.
    It is fun to look for Lee Valley's April Fools prank, isn't it?

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    I think that's serious, and I've been looking for mutton for a while so I could render my own tallow. This is great, too bad I just put in an order for LV today at lunch.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trevor Walsh View Post
    I think that's serious, and I've been looking for mutton for a while so I could render my own tallow. This is great, too bad I just put in an order for LV today at lunch.
    It's serious, at least so far as that's the exact brand of tallow that I currently use.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trevor Walsh View Post
    I think that's serious, and I've been looking for mutton for a while so I could render my own tallow. This is great, too bad I just put in an order for LV today at lunch.
    I agree it is serious and that it is still too early for Lee Valley's prank. I still assert that it is a lot of fun to look for it. They are well crafted and funny.

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    It is fun to look for Lee Valley's April Fools prank, isn't it?
    Just go to their site and enter > afd < into their search page to bring up the last 8.

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    Amazing how much you can get for an ounce of sheep fat!! I don't want my planes all greasy. Maybe I'm prejudiced. We were always poor when I was growing up. There was an abandoned sheep farm near us at one place. My step father would shoot one of the filthy,unshorn,extremely shaggy and uncared for sheep in the head with a .22 short. They were so easy to kill! Try that with a pig. They just keep on eating. (He did that as a kid when his folks told him to kill the pig. The pig didn't even stop eating.)

    Then,he'd hang it (the sheep) upside down in the basement and gut it. The smell was TERRIBLE. Then,we ate mutton forever. I hated it,and will not eat it to this day(and tomorrow,too!)

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    I would prefer to find a vegan alternative.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zach England View Post
    I would prefer to find a vegan alternative.
    How about mineral oil. Then you don't even have to kill a vegetable.

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    ..or paraffin.. Wait! That comes from dinosaurs! <g>
    One can never have too many planes and chisels... or so I'm learning!!

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    The only humor outside AFD I ever get out of LV is the box tool, funny but accurate description of a tool I would never expect to be able to buy from LV. I keep meaning to order one but forget it every time I order.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zach England View Post
    I would prefer to find a vegan alternative.
    I thought I was the only one here! I'll stick with canning wax for my grease and cardboard for my strop.

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