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I finally understand you guys :-)

#1

Steven Antonucci

I finally understand you guys :-)

steve antonucci

>My wife yelled down that I just got a package from Lee Valley, so I just about broke my leg running up the stairs.

It was my new low angle block plane!

It's very easy to see why you handtool guys get so excited about these things. I'm first and foremost a turner, but I like tools that make flat things too (even if I don't use them all that much :-) I went to the Somerset Woodworking show last Saturday, where the Lee Valley guy told me it would be about 10-14 days until I received my order. Delivered in 6. I wasn't looking for a plane at the time, but I just couldn't help myself...

I had to put it to wood, and without any fuss, I managed to take the thinnest of shavings that I've ever seen. Come Five Barns this year, I may just have a chance at that planing contest! The shavings are so thin that they're clinging to everything due to the static charge... and I haven't even gone over the plane yet.

I can see another order in the future...

Steve

P.S. I didn't even get the cabinet scraper plane out of the box...hurry up weekend!

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#2

Oh what a feel'in !

s.mackay@worldnet.att.net

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#4

Steve Kubien

the score is one to one

Steve Kubien

>Sorry Scott, but I think the 'catch' of Mr. Antonucci is merely evening the score. I've been bitin' by the turning bug and it's teeth dig deep. The are some lonely 'flat' tools in my shop right now.

-feeling slightly ashamed-

Steve Kubien

Ajax, Ontario

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#5

I tried to warn you...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>But you wouldn't listen now, would you. See I told you you'd get bit.

That turning bug buried it's self in to you like a tick!

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#6

Steven Antonucci

At least most of the wood is free :-)

steve antonucci

>You know you got it bad when you jump in the truck on a Sunday morning because you hear a chainsaw in the distance...

Steve

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#7

Re: I tried to warn you... *LINK*

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>Congrats on the new toy Steve! It's all down hill from here. ;~) Actually, being a turner your closer to a Handtooler than not, what with using and maintaining the [turning] chisels.

Come Five Barns this year, I may just have a chance at that planing contest

Ahhhhhhhhhh but Steve, do be leery if Eliis brings his "airplane" again this year.

-Easily one of the funniest things I've ever seen on the Island, anybody got a pic of it?

Click the link for more 'Slope Grease.

Todd O.


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#8

Re: Hey Steve...

ThomD

>You're not looking to buy a lathe are you?

Have you been going to the turning meetings in Pickering?

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