Query for Planing Purists

Re: Query for Planing Purists

Charles

>Hand scrape the blemishes.

Re: Gathering information.

David Barnett - Venice, Florida

>"Money bees", R. Buckminster Fuller used to call us. He'd explain that cross-pollination was precessional, that it was Nature's mind at work at the right-angled meta-level beyond human intention. Money as nectar. The internet sure kicks the process up a notch, but one can all too easily dip one's proboscis into things unsavory and untested.

Glad you're going to play with burnishing, the 'proto-finish', heh. Seriously, from childhood I remember an archeologist's story about a smooth stone that captured the sun and moon, that rubbed against wood and baked clay would impart its smoothness, thereby enabling those things to receive the two 'lights' blessings (reflection). But of course, that's mere folklore. Hell, I might've even made it up!

Then there's the mysterious tarry substance known as 'woomdiddiwabbawabba' that bubbled from a sacred pit into which the Australoaborigines ceremonially dipped their weapons before the hunt. Okay, well yeah, I DID make this up, heh.

"Be vewwy vewwy cehful." E. Fudd

Re: cat fight sound

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Now, where did I put that Kunz shoulder plane? :^)

WOW!!!

Bob Hackett

>That got the attention of EVERY animal in the house(including SWMBO)!My dogs have calmed down but the cat is still traumatized.She keeps looking around for whatever made the noise and won`t come down from on top of the entertainment center.The parrots are still talking about it.;^)

Mainely,Bob-Who bookmarked it for the next time the cat(or birds) act up.

Re: WOW!!!

Skip in Falls Church

>Hi Bob,

Your household sounds a lot like mine - except all the animals in my house ignored the sound. Then again the hall monitor Quaker (Elmo) likes to keep everyone in line - yell at the dog, Elmo yells too. Yell at the cats - Elmo yells too Yell at Elmo and Elmo carefully tells you "Elmo good bird - Good baby Elmo." We both want his publicist! Somehow he's learned to produce maniacal laughter at appropriate times - but has never learned the word "NO".

Skip

Dan! Where Do You FIND These Things?

Bot Hutchins in central TX

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Re: Dan! Where Do You FIND These Things?

Dan Donaldson

>Just poking around. Every once in awhile a thread comes up that something I have seen somewhere seems to fit ;-) Sometimes I can even remember where I saw it;-)

Other stuff like the water drops are just something I ran across that was interesting so I bookmarked it in a temp folder. Later I went back through the bookmarks and saved the ones that were most interesting on second look. Sometimes it looks like something that someone else might enjoy seeing, so I post if ;-)

I know, I know, I need to get a life ;-)

Re: WOW!!!

Bob Hackett

>Could be worse,Elmo could be a macaw!

Popeye,our blue and gold,lets us know when anyone arrives in the driveway by screeching(VERY loudly) till they reach the door or the dogs start howling,whichever comes first.All the time the screeching takes place our african grey,Schwartzkopf,is yelling at him to shut up.When he finally does Schwartzy never fails to call him either bonehead or brickbrain.Gee,I wonder where he learned that.

Mainely,Bob

Re: WOW!!!

Skip in Falls Church

>Hi Bob,

Talking (or screeching) birds are still sort of a novelty to me. My wife got Elmo as a baby and the two of them bonded. Unfortunately Quakers can be a bit protective and he's always seen me as an outsider. It seems his favorite pastime is trying to remove my fingers. I suspect a Macaw would be much more effective at that - so I'm glad we don't have one. :)

I'm surprised that Elmo hasn't picked up some more "choice" words - always the problem with talking birds, they always learn the words you'd least like them to learn. His favorite game is to ask me to get out (signified by saying "Elmo step up") then running to the back of his cage and laughing maniacally when I get up to let him out.

Skip

Re: Dan! Where Do You FIND These Things?

Clay C in Miami

>OK, now I'm curious ... the 'water drops' stuff? I did a search among your recent posts, but with no success ...

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Clay

Re: Dan! Where Do You FIND These Things? *LINK*

Dan Donaldson

>Sorry about that. It was on the main board. Here is a link to the post.


Water drops

Re: Purism?

ThomD

>The reality is to learn to use hand tools well, and therefore understand them, you only have to do two things. Stop using power tools, and practice a lot. It comes down to the same thing. You need to use them. If you have a big mortiser, it is hard to take the time to learn to chop mortices to the maximum standard of speed and accuracy. You have to turn the morticer to the wall, and actually chop. I learned this from reading Scott Nearing, and Franz Klaus. I mean it's obvious, but even Klaus who went through a full apprenticeship only got on top of dovetails when he had to make some project with dozens of drawers. Nearing who didn't have the apprenticeship thing, at least at the outset, just practiced. If you practice you will surprise yourself, and everyone else too. It also doesn't take as much practice as you might think. A massive difference can start to be evident after even a few evening of practice. What really holds a person back is trying to squeeze the ketchup out of an empty bottle on projects. Projects aren't practice, and there is too much at stake, yet it is usualy the projects that from the basis for our skills.

I have all the power tools, but I did go through a period of turning them to the wall, and even sold a few off. Since about 97 I have really been practicing, and I have been at this hand tool stuff since the late 70s.

An even better discipline is to find some people you can teach this stuff to, that really motivates you to improve.