A Newbie Woodworker's (Practical) Wish List for Machines and Tools
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A Newbie Woodworker's (Practical) Wish List for Machines and Tools
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Re: A Newbie Woodworker's (Practical) Wish List for Machines and Tools
Edited #2I never managed to stay within practical lines, but it is worth considering hobby vs production. Production is something like I am building a boat, or an all new set of kitchen cabinets. If you are doing both then you need production tools from two camps. These jobs are large enough that without practical tools you are going to be in trouble.
If you want a hobby, it is better to concentrate on something like chip carving, turning, or Uke building. You can have the very best tools at a reasonable level of quality, and enjoy a challenging pastime.
Of course, the main pastime is actually buying tools, so there is that...
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I like the list of tools for students at the Krenov school. It is concise.
https://thekrenovschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/TT-tool-list-2017.pdf
Of course they have some power tools at the school. A good start is a bandsaw, and portable planer, or an over under like the Inca if you can find one cheap. There are some new over/unders coming in from China at the moment.
I find a drill press invaluable, and have made do with a very small one I bought for parts for 25 dollars. It works, I just got it for parts for a CNC. I do actually have full standing one, and some mills, but the little one is a lot safer, and gets the most use. You can just leverage a straight hole in so many ways.
And a workbench, though it doesn't need to be fancy.
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This is really weird. I tried multiple times, separated by time to post the above as two separate thoughts, and it jammed them together every time.
Re: A Newbie Woodworker's (Practical) Wish List for Machines and Tools
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@TomD,
>This is really weird. I tried multiple times, separated by time to post the above as two separate thoughts, and it jammed them together every time.
Most new forums tend to display consecutive replies by the same author in a particular manner. The idea seems to be treating them not as entirely new replies but rather as "addendums" to the previous ones, thereby not presenting them as distinct posts. This approach has its drawbacks, particularly for users like Derek, who prefer structuring their topics with each reply serving as a "part" of the original topic. When Derek adds another reply/part before anyone else responds, it gets appended to his previous reply/part, disrupting the intended structure of his topic.
I raised this issue with the forum developer and suggested implementing a feature where the forum scans replies for HTML header tags (such as H1, H2, H3, etc.) and generates a table of contents based on them. The developer implemented this feature, and while it works, I believe there's room for improvement. However, there haven't been many further changes lately.
It's worth noting that the developer has been quite dedicated to the project, especially considering they took on the task of migrating all messages from the old forum into this new Open Source forum, with a particular focus on WC. I couldn't find anyone else with the necessary expertise to undertake this task; most either claimed it couldn't be done or demanded exorbitant fees. Last October, when the old forum scripts ceased functioning altogether, if it weren't for this new forum, it's likely there wouldn't be any WC forums left at all.
He is a reader of this forum and holds administrative privileges, which are necessary as we are utilizing it as a testing ground for his ForkBB project, still categorized as Alpha software. Typically, Alpha status indicates that the software isn't intended for production use. However, this classification didn't concern me much, considering it was comparatively more stable and better written than many stable and proprietary forum packages available.
I am apprehensive that he might have been offended by the numerous negative comments regarding his forum project and may no longer be interested in assisting us.
Re: A Newbie Woodworker's (Practical) Wish List for Machines and Tools
#4Are you saying that this forum is actual an alpha build?
I once made the mistake (not a computer guy, but maybe a little closer to one in college) of installing Windows NT 4.0 alpha when we just couldn't wait for something more stable than win 95 plus.
and boy did it not work very well!! I can't remember for sure, but I think 98 wasn't out yet, but someone in my dorm was passing around 98 beta and it was so much more stable than win 95 plus that it was stupid. So we thought "how much worse could alpha be than a beta release - it's only one letter lower".
A lot less functional and a lot worse is the answer to that!
this forum works quite well. The consecutive post thing is pretty standard on a lot of forums I've perused, but not any in woodworking. At least one of those forums has the option to select that you don't want to have posts combined, but you have to remember to do it. when the second post added is somewhat of a separate or an independent thought vs. the prior post, it does come across to a poster as if they are talking to someone about the weather tomorrow and then without pausing for even 5 seconds, starting to make comments about a problem their dog is having.
Re: A Newbie Woodworker's (Practical) Wish List for Machines and Tools
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@David Weaver,
In brief, he's the creator of FluxBB, a derivative of PunBB, both widely utilized platforms. Many PunBB sites transitioned to FluxBB under his guidance. His latest project, ForkBB, seems to be a complete reimagining of FluxBB rather than a simple update for modern standards. I was impressed by its quality and proposed testing its scalability with our extensive message database, to which he readily agreed. He promptly requested examples of our old forum's data storage format to devise a conversion strategy. Within a day, he provided code, and over the subsequent months, we collaborated to ensure seamless functionality.
In my opinion, despite his labeling it as Alpha, it proved to be more reliable than any other options available. His coding skills surpass mine by far, and it seems like he outshines everyone else in the realm of forum software development.
Proof? This does a code validation:
https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodcentral.com%2Fforkbb%2F
Now compare that to popular forum packages used on other sites:
https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lumberjocks.com%2Fforums%2F
https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodworkforums.com%2F
I consider this matter with great seriousness. I've gone to the extent of including a Validation link in the footer of every page on WC. To my knowledge, they all pass validation flawlessly, with no errors detected. While information and warnings may be less critical, errors are labeled as such for a reason and should be addressed promptly. I'm puzzled as to why they aren't being rectified.
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Heh, we seemed to have hijacked the topic. Maybe I should change the title to A Newbie Woodworker's (Practical) Wish List for Machines and Tools and Forum Software.
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And I don't have a dog and the weather for tomorrow looks good.
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David Weaver wrote:>I once made the mistake (not a computer guy, but maybe a little closer to one in college) of installing Windows NT 4.0 alpha when we just couldn't wait for something more stable than win 95 plus...and boy did it not work very well!!
As someone who uses Linux and refuses to use Windows, I consider all Windows versions Alpha. LOL
https://nixos.org/ [MIT License]