Another "nothing new under the sun" moment

12/6/07, 6:45 PM #1

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA, the rain's here
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Another "nothing new under the sun" moment

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA, the rain's here

>Reading through the 1924 "Popular Mechanics Shopnotes," I found a description of a standing tool cabinet that looks very similar to some of the cabinets that have appeared in these pages. My eye was caught by the following: "A few shelves, arranged near the bottom of the larger compartment, provide space for small boxes of tools...or for...catalogs relating to tools."

Aha! We're just carrying on another tradition: for generations now, woodworkers have spent time in the shop reading through tool porn.

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12/6/07, 7:36 PM #2

Pam Niedermayer
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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Hey, our brains haven't advanced much since 4000 years ago when the last major mutations happened, we're still debating the same old things with the same old brains.

Pam

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12/6/07, 8:13 PM #3

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Bill White

>Except now we have SAW STOP and FESTOOL. The two most used thread generators in the history of woodworking websites.

Bill

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12/6/07, 9:13 PM #4

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA, the rain's here
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Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA, the rain's here

>Well, those topics and bevel up vs. bevel down hand planes.

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12/6/07, 10:52 PM #5

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Marv

>Bill,

Do you mean "innies" and "outies"?

Marv

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My name is Marv Werner. I live Northern California, in Lake County. I retired in 1999 after owning an electronics business that produced coil assemblies for Hewlett Packard, Snap-On-Tools and other similar companies. I was in that business for 19 years. During prior years in the San Francisco Bay Area, I was vice president of two different companies. Got tired of the rat race and moved to Lake Co. in 1976 and sold real estate for four years. Hated it because it didn't involve getting my hands dirty. I have a combination woodworking and machine shop in the lower story of a house that I built back in 1981. I have a great interest in hand tools in general but am most involved with collecting and restoring old handsaws. I sell some on eBay and also do custom restoring and saw sharpening. The amount that I have learned here on WoodCentral is immeasurable. One of the things I've learned, I'm pretty much of a hack compared to so many people who frequent this site.

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12/6/07, 11:02 PM #6

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA
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Or pins or tails...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>I perfer tails first ;^)

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12/6/07, 11:28 PM #7

Stephen Shepherd in the State of Deseret
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The Egyptians

Stephen Shepherd in the State of Deseret

>carved pictures of hand tools on tomb walls. Frescos on the walls of Pompeii and the Herculaneum.

I can imagine an old well worn copy of Smith's Manufactories of Sheffield hanging on a nail in the privy of the cabinet shop in the early nineteenth century.

Some luxuries have been around for centuries.

Stephen

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12/7/07, 1:08 AM #8

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>And don't forget...starting a saw kerf by drawing a saw backwards first, or not. LOL

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Novice woodworker, tool-collecting nut, Trying to learn as I go using magazines, books, TV and the web as references. Live in Florence, SC. 63 years old/young (take yer pick). Will talk about nearly anything brought up, might know a little, or a lot...I just don't know! Got started on the path to woodworking several years ago when my wife Irene and I were in a high-end, really expensive "Exotic Furniture" store in Greer, SC. After watching me put my face down on the tabletops to gawk at how the grain leaped out at me, she said those fateful words..." Why don't you quit screwing around talking about this stuff and build me some things?" All I could do was to stop...slowly turn my head in her direction...and say........"Don't toy with me!!! If that's what you really want...be prepared....it's not cheap!" She said that if it got me home from work more often, that it would be worth it. My only regret now is that there is too little money for too much wood! I have told the kids (son Russ, 43 and daughter Courtney,40) that the only thing I want for any holiday or birthday is interesting wood, and in return, for their birthdays, they'll get it back, albeit in a different and hopefully more pleasing form. I am slowly learning (I guess you could call it being self-taught) from magazines and books and having an absolute blast doing it! One day I hope to design something that will stop people in their tracks, but if I only get a thank you kiss from my wife...that'll be just fine!

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12/7/07, 3:20 AM #9

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Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>.... As much as a thread on Sharpening? :)

Regards from Perth

Derek

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