***GUEST CHAT TONIGHT!*** *LINK*

Hmmm...

Jim Shaver Oakville, Ont.

>Where have I heard that name before?

:-)

See you there!!

take care,

Jim

Re: Hmmm...

Andrew Dix

>No kidding Jim, I'll be there!

Re: Hmmm...

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>I don't know. You'll span Desperate Housewives (which is missable) and the new Prime Suspect 7 (which is definitely not missable). Do you guys think Konrad and Chris together add up to more than Helen Mirren? :)

Can I safely assume the topic will be dovetailed infills?

Pam

Re: Hmmm...

Andrew Dix

>Pam, That is a tough choice, but learning from Konrad and Chris is definately worth the time. The subject is the challenges of a woodworker who builds planes for other woodworkers, although I'm sure the subject will deviate. can't wait. now I have to go watch the Redskins game!

Pam, that's why

Joanne in Pt. Pleasant, PA

>there are VCR's! Mine is already set to tape PS VII. Otherwise, I'd be missing this guest chat. lol

Tivo...

Victor P

>

Re: Pam, that's why

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Yeah, I know, but I've never set it up for taping in this house, just watching. There's also the standard Sunday night with the family, such as it is, small dinner (Jack's doing spaghetti tonight), and lolling about. This has been ingrained since I was a baby, lunch at Grandma's, home for soup and sandwich and Ed Sullivan, sometimes we stayed at Grandma's for same.

Pam

Re: Tivo...

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Well, yeah, and dvd's for that matter; but the fact is I've been retired by the world for 5 years now and the last thing I want to pay for is more tv, much rather put it into tools. Unless of course your hospital/practice needs some software done. :)

Pam

BUT PAM

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>Tonight Ellis, not Ed that has a Reallllllllllllly BIG SHOW!

Yes, I remember Ed Sullivan. Dad used to watch him when I was a kid. I remember when the Beatles primired, and I saw Elvis the Pelvis there as well.

I always liked it when Ed talked to his mouse. What I didn't know was that Ed also did the voice of the mouse.

I probably won't make the chat either as I'm quite sleepy. Can't we read the chat afterwards somewhere?

Todd O.

Will the real Topo Gigio please

Joanne in Pt. Pleasant, PA

>stand up? That little mouse puppet that frequented the Ed Sullivan show was a very popular little guy from Italian artists. His voice was usually done by an Italian actor, and most certainly NOT by Ed Sullivan. I think whoever told you that is mistaken.

Re: Will the real Topo Gigio please

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Ed Sullivan was only the excuse to spend time together. Remember, these were the days of 3 channels, and I really didn't like the ES show very much; but many years later when I was visiting a college campus we all made it for the Beatles.

Pam

Re: BUT PAM

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>You should have been there, Todd, it was a great chat.

Thanks, Ellis.

Pam

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Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>Yeah Pam, I'm sure it was. I tried to be there, and as a matter of fact, while I was waiting for 9:30 to roll around I was reading the Tom Lie-Nielsen chat of '05. I was just so sleepy I couldn't hang with it, and at 9:15 I put the computer o-f-f mode.

At least I discovered where I can read transcripts of the chats.

As a child of the 60's, I remember the days of Black and White t.v., rabbit ears, and 3 channels. Those where the days. Every Sunday night it was Lassie and Walt Disney. Yup, those where the days.

Glad you made the chat afterall Pam, what did ya' learn? Gonna swap those Japanese planes in for some stuffed infills? ;~)

T.O.

Re: BUT PAM

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>I won't be swapping tools anytime soon, if ever, maybe when I get disatisfied with my Japanese planes. :)

To be honest, Konrad's planes are priced way out of my league; but I'm also still quite happy with what I have. They are beautiful, though, and Konrad's so young, cute, and interesting, he makes me want to buy some infills. See, I told you Japanese handmade tools were bargains.

What did I learn? That Konrad is a very good plane maker, that he goes with the figure for orientating the infilling wood rather than some grain orientation, and that he doesn't think fitting the infill to the steel is the most difficult part of plane making. We got into a few other things, like whether wood, once it dries below a certain relative humidity, is impervious to shrinking and/or expansion, and how much a piece of infill can deform the sole. We also talked about Holtey's 3 point bedding system. Chris will research that now.

Anyhow, it was so interesting I couldn't tear myself away, so had to stay up and watch the 3 AM Prime Suspect 7 repeat.

Pam

Re: BUT PAM

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>Yeah, I hear ya' Pam, they certainly are too rich for my wallet, but I certainly find the concept of making them interesting. I don't think the side to sole connectionion is all that important other than they are handmade and dovetailed.

Ernie made made his little plane out of a scrap of channel iron IIRC, and Bob says it works quite nicely.

Rob Brophy welded together the side and soles of a nicely little Bedrock style Scrub plane.

Now, don't anybody take me wrong, I'm in no way knocking Konrads work, and in fact quite in awe of it. Unfortunatly out of my $$

league.

T.O.

Re: BUT PAM

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>I don't know, there's something to be said for a nice, flat, dovetail connection; but like you said, there are several ways to get there. I'm just so enamored of my Japanese planes, as well as C&W and HNT Gordon, that it's no longer an issue. And I'm not saying the infills are better or worse, truly don't know. A lot of people sure swear by their Sauers, Holteys, et al.

Pam

Re: BUT PAM

Ellis Walentine

>My pleasure. I agree, it was a great chat. I will edit the transcript as soon as I can.

Cheers,

Ellis