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Is that you, Graham? 

Re: Is that you, Graham?

Yes 😂

Re: Is that you, Graham?

Just watched a few of the videos and my hat's off to you.  Very nice stuff Graham and your presentation was spot on-- the antithesis of wordy, random, and mostly useless drivel one too often runs across these days.  Nice, tidy, professional shop as well.

Re: Is that you, Graham?

Thanks Charlie

I'm lucky to have some space to work at home. I have access to our commercial workshop https://www.gshaydon.co.uk/ but I enjoy the resbite of a home workshop. I'm very rusty after a 6 year break with the videos but I quite enjoy doing them in this format.

Re: Is that you, Graham?

Really nice tone and tenor.  I'm working under a carport at the moment (long story), so I'm envious of anything will four walls and a roof.  It's so bad that lightning struck my lathe about six weeks ago.  New one arrives today.  I wasn't standing at it, but had been about an hour before.  I would have died.  Besides lawless thugs (if you've read our news lately), Memphis has really, really stormy weather.

Re: Is that you, Graham?

"with" not will...

Re: Is that you, Graham?

Blimey, Charlie! That's really bad luck with the lathe. Turning is something I want to become proficient with, I have a feeling it'll take a while!

Re: Is that you, Graham?

Lordy, it was an old Rockwell/Delta gap bed lathe that had certainly seen better days.  It needed another set of head stock bearings (I'd already replaced them once), and the lightening of course took out the motor and switch.  It was time for something new.  Old lathes are great when really old and really big.  This one was neither.  I'm "upgrading" to a Nova midi lathe with an extension bed.  Still a small lathe, but I'm looking forward to it.  I'm planning on cobbling together a stand for it this weekend out of 2x stuff.  Nothing elaborate.  I might snap a few pictures.

Re: Battery Life

Hi Bruce,

I’ve been using a 12.9” (diagonal) iPad Pro for some years.  Prolly get a new one for Christmas.  I notice Apple is sticking with 12.9 as its largest iPad—this makes sense to me, because a hand-held machine with eye relief maybe 15 inches by guestimate, your eyes can’t take in much larger screen.

Can’t speak for the Samsungs, but Apple rates iPad battery life at 10 hours, which seems about right to me.  I’m using mine on and off from 7am til midnight—generally plug it in when not in use, so battery charge is not a problem.  If I were on the road a lot, I’d buy auxiliary battery packs for recharge on the fly.

However.  Details of screen size and battery life don’t capture the real difference between tablet versus notebook or PC.  The real difference is mobile.  It’s like the difference between a corded drill/driver or sawzall versus cordless—you’re walking around the world untethered with the mobile/cordless device.  

The corded machine may have more horsepower or functionality, but with cordless/mobile you’re walking free.  So the choice comes down to each person’s needs and priorities.  

This is just a guess based on my own narrow experience:  But I suspect most people—not all, some are IT or graphics pros—but the typical person who starts using a mobile device will not go back.  For many uses, it’s a better choice than a phone, because it’s big enough you can see what the heck you’re looking at, and sites are so much easier to navigate.

Wuz you thinking about making a purchase?😀

Wiley

Re: Is that you, Graham?

Only the extension bed was delivered yesterday.  Lathe not coming until the 14th.  My luck.

The lathe

Charles, the Nova is worth the wait. It's a very good lathe. Well made and reputation for being reliable. I have had the Saturn - with bed extension for spindle and leg turning - for some years now.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Re: Battery Life

Oh, jeeze, Wiley ... I hope your reply is only for the sake of relief from looking out for fires. It appears like my little spot on the West Coast is the only one showing green on the drought desperation maps; and, it's drier than cow chip fires here.

I keep telling myself I need to graduate from the required upgrade, a flipfone I had to do this spring. Not happy throwing away a $5 3g for an inflated $30 4g flip. These are truly no more than a cell phone to me. But.... I'm one of those people who digs through the hand tool aisle searching for chorded relics.

Electronics are complicated today.

Re: The lathe

I'm looking forward to having it!  I actually somehow missed a phone call by the freight company trying to delivery it yesterday or I would have had it then.  They couldn't reschedule any sooner than the 14th.  

Re: The lathe

Hey, have you ever used Veritas' chair devils?  I have some crappy ones I cobbled together ages ago, but I was thinking about treating myself.

Re: Battery Life

Great answer Bruce!  I’m afraid the Apple bug has done bit me.  But think I’ll draw the line at battery-electric cars😀.  Wiley

Re: The lathe

Charles, I really wanted a set of those Veritas chair devils, but I just could not pull the trigger. There are tools which I must make rather than purchase. The ones I made were crude and for a specific task. I have done this a few times, and either given them away or tossed them.

Here is one ... .... mmm ... I cannot post the picture.

https://i.postimg.cc/W3XTGHL7/Competition-brace-for-Wood-Central-2008-html-65aed32c.jpg

Regards from Perth

Derek

Re: The lathe

Yeah, I made a couple that work OK.  The Veritas ones just look so nice though...

Follows important safety advice..

No loose clothing.

I feel more educated......

and am looking forward to more Adventures of Wood Girl.....

Re: More chisel tricks

I have metal scrapers and all that other jazz, and that technique can be useful making planes if you don't have a float, or other options like concave backs on your blade.  In the end, if you can find it when you need it, there aren't many things that are not useful, or don't get uses, in my experience.

Re: My little rant

I found that here for the past 20 years.  I even find it in FWW, where authors of books, or articles don't give credit.  Though if the access to the internet shows anything it is that very little is actually new.

My favourite lack of attribution was when FWW carried a cover story on the router on rails system without crediting Frid.  As a well known teacher and author, in FWW own pages, maybe Frid got there first, he certainly got there before Nick (who may always attribute to him).  It is unlikely Frid was the first, and it certainly would not be patentable in a rational patent system.  But after around 50 years, few people really know who got there first, and that is just in the magazines.  In fact I often forget what I read back then, so maybe they did attribute Frid.

Re: My little rant

It was never intended to be a library, is the problem.  They can't sell your profile to people if they don't click.  So they need new content all the time. It only has to be new to the person being profiled. And so ends the tritest series of statements about the internet made in the last 6 milliseconds. 

It is annoying when a really good video is lost to the fact it is so low in the pile that it never surfaces.  But the solution to that is more guile with the clicks.

The reality with newsgroups is that they need ignorant people who can enthusiastically restate what is obvious to most with a little more time on task.  Get really excited about their discoveries and communicate them to others equally ignorant.  It would be like complaining about the existence of teachers.  And if it serves the needs of others it will be appreciated.

It is woodworking, nothing is new.

Re: How information gets out.....

Yeah, unplugged, that is ironic.