Y'all are bad influences!

No, but there's one thing...

Scott Burr Ben Lomond,CA

>you can do. A study in total abstinence. Box 'em all up and send them to me. You'll be OK in a few weeks...

Re: Y'all are bad influences!

Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia

>Probably not.JR

Re: Y'all are bad influences!

Tom MacGregor

>You're still looking at it backwards. Actually we're a very good influence. You were addicted to power tools and now hand tools are aiding in your recovery process.

Re: Y'all are bad influences!

John K in Hastings, MN

>No cure. Hey, look at the bright side- hand tools are cheaper! Right, guys?

John

sorry

Jack Guzman from Maine

>No cure,just therapy.You have to work through the addiction by planing,chiseling,sawing,etc.It helps if you replace the constant noise of electron burning with music.---Jack

Re: Y'all are bad influences!

Tom in Tipp

>John,

Sure, all those hand tools are a lot cheaper...unless you decide that one of each isn't enough and you find yourself with an entire set of vintage H&Rs, all sorts of Stanley planes, more plough planes than one man should have and a couple of BBQ/Smokers to use up your scrap wood. Then it may be a problem, but we don't know anybody like that, do we?

Tom

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Alan Hamilton

>Bill,

Why do you want to be cured?

For some inane reason I am reminded of an old academic (whose name now escapes me) who once said: "Whenever I feel like exercising, I just go lie down until the feeling passes."

Perhaps hand tools are the cure.

Alan

Re: Y'all are bad influences!

John K in Hastings, MN

>Nope. I have TWO sets of hollow and rounds (one US, one York pitch), four plow planes, four smoothers, nine block planes, four jacks, three jointer planes, a grill and a big BBQ. That other guy you mentioned sounds like he needs to get busy.

John

books on tape

Ernie Miller *Topeka

>If they only had woodworkin books on tape

Nice collection!

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>Looks like a couple of KTWs up front, too.

OT: Exercise

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>That professor should have joined Athletics Anonymous. When one feels the urge to exercise, one calls another member, who shows up with a bottle of vodka, which is drunk until the urge to exercise goes away.

I love that Picture

Ernie Miller Topeka

>He has so many planes stacked on that shelf it is sagging from the weight.

Re: Nice collection!

Ernie Miller Topeka

>It looks like they have the original shavings in them from when they were bought. Shop looks to clean for him to be using them.

They're CHERRY shavings, Steve

John K in Hastings, MN

>ships his with maple!

Give me some credit, anyway. As for the sagging shelves, they used to hold WWing magazines. I had to relocate some of them outside the shop to gain more plane storage space. And yes, they are 8' shelves! There is a Knight padauk coffin smoother and jack up front, some Veritas new planes, remainder old.

John

Badge of Honer

Ernie Miller Topeka

>if you have so many planes the shelf sags. as for the SKM it is a clean shop