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What's easier? Lazy WW observes frenetic WWers

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A new guy moved into the house behind me. Contractors are building his recreation room. These guys are hilarious. It took one most of a morning to finally shave down an odd fit interior door. It required failure of a toy table saw and blade replacement on an electric planner(?) to get the door out of the yard and into the house. I knew he wouldn't know what to do had I given him an Stanley block plane needing five minutes blade adjustment. (An old plane.)

I see this new, "electronic", versus old "simple handwork" silliness all of the time. Here it is in spades: I actually was allowed to look at and read a thread about pinning or drawboring M&Ts for an exterior door on the Sawmill Cr.. The OP was obsessed with gluing M&Ts and then gluing in pins afterward.  Poor Brian Holcombe, whom I recognize via Chris Hall,  advised "efficient": 

Drawboring makes for a very strong [joint] that can be disassembled if need be. If you decide to use it, make the pins by riving them.

And,

You can draw bore with a square peg also.

Whoops, it's a busy thread. The hook, by a third poster: 

Since the tenons are just 2" long, I'd glue it and peg it. Too easy to ruin short tenons with drawboring. If they were through tenons, or close, I'd consider not gluing, but am afraid longevity won't be so good for an entry door with unglued 2" tenons.

And Shezzam: 

Wow, you guys must make doors with 6" wide stiles and 4" tenons or something?!

[They're probably, through tenons....hbm.]

To make my point, I think the scam and sale is "Costly new for efficient and inexpensive old" which has ruined the modern brain. My own mantra is "Can I make this better, and cheaper?"

Bruce,
Still chopping away at yellow glue on the garage floor......
JJJ

Re: What's easier? Lazy WW observes frenetic WWers

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I was watching a show on Habitat for Humanity.  Jimmy Carter was on it.  They had to cut a 2 by.  The young kid with him went to get a power cord and a saw.  He came back and the 2 by was cut in a perfect straight line across it.  He looked at Jimmy Carter kind of puzzled.  Jimmy Carter had a hand saw cut the 2X by hand.  The look on the kids face was priceless.

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I grew up using mostly hand tools and the best I saw were ones my Grandpa used. He and my dad made a traditional garden bench for Mom. He built his own cabin on Lake Erie and made several toys for me; the most memorable was a reel for kite string. My first dovetails and joints were cut with pocket knife and metal hacksaw blade. 

I still modify making to be completed with the tools I have.

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