Gransforsbrucks

Re: Gransforsbrucks

kees laan

>I've worked with the drawknife and axes and they are very high quality.

For me the the drawknife didn't work nice making rungs for post&rung/ladderback chairs. I prefer drawknifing bevel down with the one countryworkshop sells. The rounded drawknife of gransfors is also harder to sharpen. At www.europeanhandtools.com there are twocherrie knives, more moderately priced maybe that's an option.

regards,

kees

Re: Gransforsbrucks

marketymarkmark

>can't speak for the other tools, but GB basically makes the best axes available...the "rolls royce" of the axe world...i own a couple and without question these are quality tools...if i needed any other tool made by them, i wouldn't even hesitate...

Re: Gransforsbrucks

MikeL in SoCal

>Whenever I see their tools advertised I have visions of getting a few for use in timberframing. Then I realize I live in a land without trees and it becomes easy to convince myself that I don't need those tools. Sigh.

Cheers,

Mike

What the ??????

Russell Seaton

>Whenever I see their tools advertised I have visions of getting a few for use in timberframing. Then I realize I live in a land without trees and it becomes easy to convince myself that I don't need those tools.

You mean you don't buy tools you have absolutely no need for? Wow. That is odd. I hope I don't develop that serious mental condition. I think I'll run by the Bobcat dealer on the way home and peer through the chain link fence.

you think i NEED two axes?

marketymarkmark

>hell no! i got one cuz i needed and i ended up getting two because i couldn't decide which i liked better...

eventually i'll get a third...

anyway, the rule is: "buy the tool then find a need". not "have a need and buy the tool".

Re: What the ??????

MikeL in SoCal

>Hehehe. Don't worry Russell. When it comes to tools, I never let practicality get in the way of what I end up buying.

Cheers,

Mike

Think that's a corollary to...

Scott in Douglassville, PA

>"It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission." Leasthows, that's the way it works in this household...

Scott, trying to not buy chairmaking tools without first taking a chairmaking class

Re: Think that's a corollary to...

Doug Reynolds

>Scott: I am trying to buy all the chairmaking tools now before they are not made any more. That way I will be prepared like a good little boy scout when I do take the chair class. It works! Now I am taking Brian Boggs class in August. See honey, I told you I needed them.

Whew good to hear "practicality" doesn't interfere

Russell Seaton

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Re: Think that's a corollary to...

kees laan

>Just wait till you've done that course, because Brian's still developing some interesting tools!

Brian will inform you if you ask him.

regards

kees

I think Dubar's class makes you buy tools

Russell Seaton

>Scott, trying to not buy chairmaking tools without first taking a chairmaking class

I have heard Mike Dunbar's chairmaking classes require you to buy certain tools before you show up. I think he even sends a list of tools you have to buy. Required tool lists are good. So you could buy the chairmaking tools now with the knowledge and comfort that you are simply getting prepared to take Dunbar's class. And if you buy them now, on sale when you see them, you will save money. Is that logical or what?

Re: I think Dubar's class makes you buy tools

Scott in Douglassville, PA

>Sounds reasonable. But I won't be taking Dunbar's class. Hafta check and see (a) if Jim Rendi has the same list, and if not (b) which list has more goodies that I, um, need...

As long as you have a list, you're OK

Russell Seaton

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