"One router/chainsaw/plane/chisel/sander is all you need....."
Ian
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"One router/chainsaw/plane/chisel/sander is all you need....."
Ian
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Brazilian Rosewood? Ya, makes great firewood.
Al
Remember our vets, they need our help, just like they helped us.
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My BIL lives in CA. He has burned olive wood. I'm trying to break him of that habit.Originally Posted by Al Willits
Where did I put that tape measure...
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"Wonder if a scrap dealer would take the heavy metal thing with Emmert written on it?"
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Sure, you can set that ice-cold drink down on that table saw over there.
Here, hon....use my Japanese chisel to get those weeds out of the sidewalk cracks.
True comment made to me by a bystander as I bought a slightly dirty SW 604C:
There's no way I'd pay 8 bucks for that!
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Finished a cherry wall cabinet, with dovetails no less. Wife says, "I don't like that. Can you paint it??"
8 years later it does not have paint on it.
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"Don't buy that (insert piece of furniture name here), I can make one in a week or 2 for ALOT cheaper"
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Been there too many times."Don't buy that (insert piece of furniture name here), I can make one in a week or 2 for ALOT cheaper"
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Actually asked of me once: Will one of those hand planes of yours work to strip off the paint on the old dresser I'm going to re-finish? They were eyeballing my LN LA Jack at the time. I just walked away speechless.
Use the fence Luke
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Hey Doug... I have a borg version stanley block plane that I have sort of dedicated to that sole purpose. Now if someone grabbed my LN block for that, they better run & duck... I'm gonna chuck something at'em and chase'em.
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Greg, just make sure its the borg block plane they have to duck, not the LN No. 1!!!Hey Doug... I have a borg version stanley block plane that I have sort of dedicated to that sole purpose. Now if someone grabbed my LN block for that, they better run & duck... I'm gonna chuck something at'em and chase'em.
I don't have any better woodworking ones, but the two best ones I heard when I worked at a bookstore in college...
"Do you have any Ansel Adams books with color pictures?"
"Do you have anything by Shakespeare in English?"
Dan
There are three ways to get something done: Do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
-Monta Crane
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Oh wait, I do have a woodworking one...
"No Honey, I don't need a new router bit for this project."
Dan
There are three ways to get something done: Do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
-Monta Crane
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All the best wood and plywood is sold at the borg.
Glue and a few brads should do the trick.
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- this is after -
- getting in from work every evening
- playing with the kids
- putting them to bed
- working on the two cabinets (while being watched for original time estimate) late evenings ONLY during the week and weekends
took eight months......
Howard Rosenberg
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"whatddya mean you're charging me for your time...we're friends!"
"My husband can build that for you...can't you honey!"
After spending alot of time on design/construction of anything..."Oh, gee, that's not really what I had in mind"
"I don't really like the look of Oak"
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