Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Waiting For Warmth...Humpday Triviola
Rumor has it that Mount Level will be seeing Spring-like temps in another day or two. Let's hope so because I have a bunch of new lumber to stack and I hate doing in the cold!
Ok, so this guy named John Walker was not a woodworker but managed to achieve something noteworthy with wood. What was it?
Tom
Re: Waiting For Warmth...Humpday Triviola
I've been to Johnnie's place in Dufftown. He keeps the woodworkers busy, and his stuff will warm you right up.
Re: Waiting For Warmth...Humpday Triviola
I'll drink to his ideas any time. Will definitely warm you from the inside.
Re: Waiting For Warmth...Humpday Triviola
John and I had many good times together, but alas we parted ways 15 years ago.
Don't think so.
Nope.
Not it.
Re: Not it.
Well then I am going to grill a steak on the barbeque as soon as I find the matches to light it. Medium Rare, thank you
Re: Ken,,,
you are the Diamond of the day.
;-) There we go!! Answer
Ken comes through......
Matchsticks were invented accidentally by John Walker, a chemist in 1827. He was trying to produce a burnable material for shotguns. His first match was a stick he was using to stir a mixture of chemicals. It burnt into flames when he scraped it against a stone floor to clean off the head.
Nicely done Ken