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Storing Straightedges

Christopher Schwarz

>If you cannot hang your straightedge, you need to store it flat and completely (repeat, completely) supported. Machinists and engineers (who can chime in) have specific protocols, too.

Someone in our shop (who shall remain nameless) ruined our Starrett straightedge a few years ago by storing it propped up on something. It is now bowed.

Sorry I didn't have room to add that into the article.

Chris

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glh

>Thanks, I keep mine flat and in their original containers. Takes a little more effort to get too but keeps them off the concrete floor. Unhappily, I bought mine before Veritas came out with their new ones. I paid significantly more, too.

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Dave Anderson Chester, NH

>Hi Chris- I store mine wrapped in the original rust retardant paper in its box and flat in a drawer of my mechanics toolbox in the machine room. I just don't want to take the chance of it falling, getting knocked, or any other possible klutzy scenario. It's in the drawer with all of my other reference measuring tools which only come out for test measurements of other tools.

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Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Not to mention that you wouldn't want to spill a glass of wine on it.

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Adam Cherubini, NJ

>I store mine under my bench with the rest of my planes. It wasn't quite as expensive as a Starret, but it has a feature I really like. When you check an edge for straightness for example, if you push it back and forth across the board a couple times, it actually makes the board straighter.

Adam

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Andrew Pallas

>WOW Adam!! I'd love one of those, where can I get one ; ) I'd really love one about 24" long, perhaps in a nice tactile wood?

Andrew

Is it called a #7 or a #8 ;-)

Dan Donaldson

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Tom Ryan

>My copy of Popular Woodworking came yesterday. Looked like a very interesting issue. I just had time to glance at an article, by Lonnie Bird, I think, that looked great. Then I went off to the nursing home to visit by 95 year old mother. On the way, my car and a deer had a dispute over who owned the road. Both the car and the deer lost. I am alive so I guess I won. I'm also uninjured, except for being a littly shakey.

But here's the problem. My PWW mag was on the front seat. It's now covered with glass, deer hair, and probably some deer blood. My wife won't let me bring it in the house. So I went to my local newsstand to buy a replacement, and they don't have it yet. Bummer.

Deer insurance

Christopher Schwarz

>Tom,

Check your e-mail. That qualifies as an act of something.

Chris

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William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>I'm glad you're ok. That's why I drive this POS, which we call the "Mooseslayer" for good reason. (The deer in Sweden are really, really big.)

There are only two kinds of drivers on the Cohansey - Those who have hit a deer, and those who will. My son's other car also has scars from taking one out, but he bagged his in the piedmont, in Virginia. He is lending me the SAAB, but so far my freezer is totally bereft of BambiBurger.

We had relatives visiting from State College last weekend. They left here late in the afternoon. I hope they got home OK. They didn't need to be warned to be vigilant.

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Todd Stock

>I thought comedian Ron White's comments on just how challenging deer hunting really is to be spot on. While hunters will tramp out into the freezing woods for season after season and never even see a deer, an inattentive minivan driver can bag the limit in no time.

White suggests equipping high powered rifle ammo with little horns and lights, and slowing the bullet down to 55 mph...

Glad your OK...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>I almost bagged one this morning on the way to work...

Scott, who's glad his truck is tall enough that most of them would go under it...

Venison sausage... yummy!

Mmmm - deery...

Scott in Douglassville, PA

>Nuge used to pitch venison jerky into the audience at the Whiplash Bash. Alledgedly leftovers from his year's harvesting duties. That was tasty stuff, I'm here to tell ya...

Scott, too far removed from shows at Joe Louis

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Dick Darin

>I think that all magazines are struggling in this the internet age.

On the internet a vast amount of information is available at the touch of a switch. In addition experts such as Bob Smalser, Lyn Mangiameli, and many others publish then clarify and sometimes defend there work interactively. This puts the magazines editors and authors in the position of looking stale or uninformed on almost any subject.

I love magazines and I hope that they can reinvent themselves if for no other reason carrying the laptop to the bathroom would be a drag.

Dick

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Joel

>I don't think the good magazines are struggling. Circulation in the better magazines is up, small good magazines in many cases get more subscribers because the interent makes it easy for people to find them.

A good editor is worth their weight in gold. Certainly one problem with the internet is that there is no expert opinion - and no editorial guidance and consistent voice. Every article has to be taken with a grain of salt unless proved otherwise.

More and more magazines are extendng their services on the internet and you, like many others may appreciate reading Lyn Mangiameli's web postings but if you really want to read his work regularly get a subscription to "More Woodturning" where his regular column is long and informative and is one of the reasons why myself and lots of other people subscribe.

In the cosmic range of things the cost of a magazine subscribtion is very minor to the convenience of having a portable source of reading, and a source of expert advice and teaching.

Incidently "More Woodturning" is an example of a small magzine that used the web excellently to promote the magazine.


More Woodturning

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Joel

>I should mention - although the general enthusiams we all have makes it redudant, that every month someone posts how worthwhile Popular Woodworking under Steve Shanesy (publisher) and Chris Schwarz (EXec. Editor) has become. It shows that when a magazine decides to do things right - subscribers will support it. What we all hate is page filler and those magazines are the ones that suffer.