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1/27/05, 2:15 PM #1

David Miller
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David Miller from Iowa

>Maybe 6 months ago I posted a question to you folks of do you ever lose your tools? My flat top #604 that my brother gave me (my first plane and the catalyst that sent me on this crazy journey) had been missing for a couple three years. I had deep cleaned the shop twice and just couldn't find so I figured it had fallen in the garbage can full of shavings (I often put the can under the edge of the bench when planing) and was gone. I recently found it lodged in a five gallon bucket full of thin scraps. You are probably getting tired of this shot of my shaving horse, but the 604 was in the bucket in the background for probably 3 full years.

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1/27/05, 2:25 PM #2

Brad in Ottawa
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>Glad you found it... everytime I looked at that shot of your shaving horse I always wondered why you kept that Bedrock in that bucket of scraps???

Out of curiousity, do you actually remember how it got there?

Personally, I can misplace a ruler or pencil and lose them permanently if I don't keep organised! Kind of puts a crimp on my productivity!

Brad

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1/27/05, 2:33 PM #3

Ernie Miller
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Ernie Miller Topeka

>How do you lose a 604 for three years? You are not deserving of it either give it back to your brother or send it to me. You must not need it if you can go 3 years with out it. I don't even own a #4 can you imagine that?

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1/27/05, 3:55 PM #4

Bob Hackett
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Never lose it again,guaranteed.

Bob Hackett

>Just make a lamp out of it.

Everytime you flip the switch and the shop lights go on you`ll know where it`s at.

No need to thank me,it`s the least I can do.Really.

Mainely,Bob

PS-I thought Todd was the only one who stored his planes in buckets.At least your bucket is indoors.;^)

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1/27/05, 6:22 PM #5

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA
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All you had to do was...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Get a replacement 604. Then you would have found that one a day or two later...

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1/27/05, 8:09 PM #6

Kevin French, Antrim NH
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Kevin French, Antrim NH

>Although not that long.

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1/27/05, 9:24 PM #7

Frank in Forest Hill Md
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Frank in Forest Hill Md

>My palm nailer has been gone for a while.... look in the bucket .... Please!

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1/27/05, 10:38 PM #8

Jack Guzman from Maine
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Jack Guzman from Maine

>Actually,seeing the shaving horse doesn't bother me,it's that hatchet.I really like that thing and every time I see it I get a pain.Stick IT in the bucket.:-)---Jack

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I am a carpenter by trade.Also a handyman/Jack -of-all-trades.I work around my neighborhood mostly helping people keep up their old houses.I have a fairly large woodworking shop in my house where I work with both hand and power tools. At the moment I'm focusing on Windsor chairs building.I will build most anything if needed. I'm always learning,adapting,changing trying to broaden my woodworking skills.I work mostly with hand tools in my shop but will use power if it is a better way to get the desired result. My wife,Donna,and I live in the woods of Maine with our dogs,cats,and birds. We have 5 grown kids and six grandchildren. Woodcentral has been central to my growth as a woodworker. I pass through this place every day.

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1/27/05, 11:36 PM #9

dave caudill
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>That was really funny. I can relate to that in a big way. And all of the time spent looking and wondering and trying to figure out how something just disappears. We had an incident at work like that this week except the lost piece is still lost.

Dave

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1/28/05, 4:25 AM #10

Bill Murphy/Reading,PA.
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>The other story is, you've had a bucket of scrap wood sitting in your shop, in plain sight, for three years and never even looked into it? LOL

I'm going to go out to the shop and check the buckets of scrap wood I've been holding on to for a loooong time too. Who knows?

Bill

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