"spice cabinet" progress

It looks like great progress Bill

Dave Anderson Chester, NH

>I'm interested in what you think the difference is in the time required to make 3 versus just one. This would be particularly interesting if all of the work had or has been done with hand tools. We all know that using power tools for multiples can cut times by as much as 50-75% since most time is in the setup, but I've never done multiples of a hand tool project all at the same time- hence the question.

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Mark Meier (Ann Arbor, MI)

>I really like the idea of the light colored bench top to improve the lighing situation. When I build my next assembly table I think I'll put off-white formica on top.

Mark

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Jim Shaver Oakville, Ont

>Hi Bill,

Looks like a great project!

Take care,

Jim

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Paul in NJ

>That's a lot of dovetails Bill. You must be getting quite good at them with all that practice. Are those your new CPM chisels in the photo? By the way, I like using the Pilot roller-ball pens but they seem to dry out real quick. Do you store them in any special way?

Paul Dzioba

answers to above questions

Bill Tindall, E. TN

>Multiples- I never thought of the point you raise. Since I am doing the design there is economy of scale in the decisions of how big, what shape, etc. It took a while to get the bun foot shape right, but it was then quick to make them.

The drawers just took forever and having to do many actually slowed things down due to boredom factor. I just find doing dovetails tedious. I guess if I was working off already made plans and knew already how to do what is needed to do that there would be little economy of scale- 3 vs 1. But, I have 2 daughters and a wife, so three was the required number, however long it finally takes. I still face learning to make a tombstone door to frame a nice piece of crotch walnut I have been saving for this special occasion.

Pilot pens- I too am having a dry out problem after storeage. I thought I had it solved but the pen that was working fine is not now. If I find a fix I will post. Yes, those are the home- made chisels, including some on the base of the holder yet to be handled.

Re: Pilots

William R. Duffield, on the Cohansey

>I have a different problem. I bought a pack of five. I've used one up, emptied it. I know it didn't just dry up, because I had worn most of the label off, with use, and could see that there was no ink left in the reservoir. Then I found a second one where it had hidden under the car seat. The other three have flown the coop, so to speak. I can't find them anywhere.

OT: Nee!

Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL

>William,

What method do you use to append the HTML script in your messages that displays your mugshot and the .wav file link? Cut-and-paste from a Notepad file on your desktop? (I presume that you are not typing it in every time.)

Forget about the pic, You look under the car seat?

Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia

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One thing to remember;-)

Dan Donaldson

>There is a FAQ that discusses how to put pictures in a posting. If you want to put a picture of yourself or something else in every posting, and you are uploading the picture rather than hosting it from your own website, the click on the picture in the posting after the first time you upload it and then use the FAQ method to access that picture rather than using the optional graphics upload. The reason for this is that if you use the optional upload capability, it will be uploading a new picture to the WC server every time you post.

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William R. Duffield, on the Cohansey

>In this case, I've put the .wav file on my own website, and the .jpg photo is a reference to my WC mugshots file. I agreee, there is no reason to reupload anything, especially something that ugly, more than once. My new posts do not take up any additional WC server space. Note that I do the same thing when I make a reference to a picture I have posted previously. In fact, I don't think I've ever used the WC optional picture upload capability.

Your reminder is important to those who have not lived with severely limited personal memory space. My memory limitations are currently mostly in my head. I've been programming since '67, back when optimal usage of every bit and every machine cycle could be critical, and I still haven't forgotten those hard-earned lessons.

For an example of how I did these little tricks (or to see anyone else's tricks), most browsers have a feature that shows the HTML source of the displayed web page.

Re: OT: Of course, but I could type it if I had to

William R. Duffield, on the Cohansey

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Re: One thing to remember;-)

Dan Donaldson

>I knew that yours was from your own web space, but just thought it might be a good idea to remind others that want to post a pic of themselves in postings, but don't have their own server. That is great, but it might not be common knowlege that once it is uploaded the first time, it is available for reference from then on, and does not take up additional server space. No point in uploading the same picture 20 times;-)