Please tell me that I am ok ;-)

You are fine...

Christopher Fitch @ Memphis

>I have 8:

Two Lee valleys

LV low angle

Both LN Boggs

LN bronze curved bottom shave

and the two Cliftons

but I know that there are posters on here who have lots more than me...

:)

you've still got a wa to go Dan

Dave Anderson Chester,NH

>My best guess is around a dozen and a half in my shop. Who knows how many more by next Fall when I teach a class on making them for our woodworking guild. It's not a problem Dan, they take up so little space compared to other tools.

You're Steve McQueen ...

Clay C in Miami

>This reminds me irresistibly of Steve McQueen in the movie Papillon, asking "Hey, how do I look?"

(If you haven't seen this, a) I can't explain it in a way that will adequately convey why this comes to mind, and b) go rent it, it's a good 'un.)

Anyway, the replies above are hilariously parallel (in text and subtext) to the reply to Papillon - "You're good, you're fine." Except for one thing - here, those reassuring you are already downhill from you, not uphill, as in Papillon.

Enjoy the slope.

Clay

Re: Please tell me that I am ok ;-)

Ernie Miller Topeka

>You are ok you are still getting them from the good side of town. start to worry when you start hiding money from the wife for you next purchase. or buying them out of the back of a car under a bridge. or I a friend comes over to shape a handle and you won't let them becouse you are Bogarting the shaves. Then you will need help and it will be time for an intervention where I come over and remove all of your hand tools.

Re: Please tell me that I am ok ;-)

Jim in Burlington

>Your fine till you have a box full that your not using then seek medical attentiion.

These guys are just trying to...

Ted Owen, Pittsburgh

>break it to you gently, Dan.

Face it. You've got it. It's permanent. You'll have to learn to live with it. Good luck.

Best, Ted

Re: Please tell me that I am ok ;-)

Tom MacGregor, Vermont

>Okay, let's put this in perspective. They cleaned out an estate nearby a few months ago & discovered the guy still had every newspaper he'd gotten since 1953. Governor Arnold owns (at last count) four Hummers. Some people collect stamps. You think it's because they plan on using them all? You want a spokeshave collection? GO FOR IT!!!

Re: Please tell me that I am ok ;-)

David Linnabary

>Dan,

Acording to just about all of my levels, you're about a half a bubble off a plumb. :)

David - engaging in shameless tool refernces.

waddaya mean, 'seek medical attention' ?

Clay C in Miami

>Jeez, don't tell me they found a CURE! If that news got out to some of the wives and POSSLQs of the members here, the consequences would be disastrous.

Wait just a moment here, though ... they'd be 'cured' and no longer care about their tools, so they'd all sell ("What was I thinking, buying $5000 in Japanese chisels and 19 Lie-Nielsen planes?"), flooding the market with 1s, and 62s, and great tall gleaming wondrous sloping heaps of ebony, ivory and brass - a sea of items of precision and delight.

And since I'm single, no one would be slipping the 'cure' into MY beers, so I'd be buying with a vastly reduced pool (at least until I married ... or my nieces and nephews figured out that the addition of old tools to the existing fast women and slow horses was both decreasing their odds of a fat inheritance, AND increasing the odds of a fat, destitute uncle moving into their spare room.)

Clay

Well... after reading that...

Christopher Fitch @ Memphis

>I don't feel anymore guilt or qualms about buying even more planes...

:)

Oh, your ok...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Sure you are. I know, because I'm OK too. Yea thats the ticket.It starts small I need a flat one and a round one. Then another on follows you home. Next thing you know their showing up on your door step. Ya see, your OK, sure...

Re: Well... after reading that...

Tom MacGregor, Vermont

>If we weren't supposed to collect tools there wouldn't be so many of them out there waiting for us.

Hmmmmm.....

Dan Donaldson

>Maybe there is something to that as I have been told that before;-)

Definitely NOT OK

Ron in Kokomo

>I am thinkin you are woefully short.

I have nearly 100 shaves.

I am not a collector... no I am merely a user with not enough time to use all my shaves :)

Do not even mention block planes.

oooops I forgot

Ron in Kokomo

>I used to post here a lot and would help poor unfortunates like you when they became ill.

I'll do it for you just this once. You have a sickness. Put all those evil things in a box, carefully wrapped of course andf mail them to me. I won't let them hurt you any more :)

Re: you've still got a wa to go Dan

Peter Ulmanis

>OK Dave, I need your help. Your comment about teaching a class in the fall for the Guild in the fall got me looking for the Guild website and I can't find it.

I would definately be interested in the details.

Peter

Re: waddaya mean, 'seek medical attention' ?

Jim in Burlington

>Clay you need medical attention take my name to the Dr and get a script for that problem.So since I haven't bought a japenese chisel yet what's going to be on the script? My nephew has a whole list of wants and since Uncle Jim is rapidly spending it faster than it ever got accumilated. Maybe just save enough to put him thru University and he can inherit a bunch of hand tools he'll sell for peanuts.

Hi Peter It's not on the guild....

Dave Anderson Chester,NH

>website yet. At the April meeting on toolmaking at UNH I'll be asking for a show of hands for the level of interest. If there's enuf interest, we'll probably schedule it as a small shop meeting either next Fall or in spring 2005.

So, which is your favourite spokeshave?

GolfSteve in Calgary

>How do the LV spokeshaves compare to the LN Boggs?

Re: So, which is your favourite spokeshave?

Dan Donaldson

>I still have to finish the honing and get them to the same state so it will be a fair comparison. I tried them just a bit on a scrap of cherry and at first feel, I think I like the way they LV fits my hand better, but I need to get them side by side and see. It may take a bit of time to get it done, as I am working on a project for my wife, and if I don't get it done soon, the only thing I will be wondering is if they will be buried with me or not ;-) I don't claim to be a "tool tester", but I will get everything tuned up as close to the same as I can and post my opinions as soon as I finish the other item.

Re: So, which is your favourite spokeshave?

kees laan

>What do you want to do with a spokeshave?

Maybe it is an option to read older messages about this item.

kees

Re: Hi Peter It's not on the guild....

Peter Ulmanis

>OK, thanks. Consider my hand up, and I will try to make it to the meeting in April. I also hope to get to wood days at Shaker Village in June. I live only about 20 min. away but the last two years I didn't make it because of family stuff. This year for sure.

My bride of 27 years always had something going that weekend, but this year the interference is gone.

Peter