Highdesert Splintermaker
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As an interesting aside, you might want to check out Randal Knives. They have been around since before WWII, I believe, and have custom made knives for a really long time. They aren't cheap and the waiting list is hella long but they are definitely worth waiting for. I don't personally own one but have had coworkers who did and loved them.
Thinking about quality knives reminds me of another knife maker - Warthers. It's in the small town of Dover in Northeastern Ohio. The knife works is a family operation located in a museum of all of the founder's train carvings.
Conductor, if you haven't been there, once you've eyeballed their website gallery (www.warthers.com), which in no way does the collection justice, You'll want to go see it all yourself - I guarantee it!
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CrisK1970:
Have my own tour guide to the Boston area. My wife, born and lived in Dedham, spent most of her first 33 in the Boston area.
She says yep! the chowda is great but the lobsta is betta.
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Regopit:
Looks like you've got a pretty fine and nearly complete set of K&E drafting pens and compasses. All that appears to be missing is the lead tube. I have a set of them around somewhere but haven't used them in years. They represent another skill (Drafting) now sadly deceased and long since replaced, first by AutoCAD, and more recently by Google's Sketchup.
The square looks like it's seen better days but it's gotta' be s great reminder of their source and those times.
Just out of curiosity, what does 'regopit' mean?
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Shaken! Not stirred.
I guess I wouldn't mind grabbin' that ah... Guiness.
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So, in other words, we're already eligible?
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If I've done this right you should be able to see a full and a close up of the 'buck-cart.'
I pulled out the million pocket tool jacket, it needed cleaning out anyway, so you can see the basic structure.
I guess, without that jacket (and tools) it's kinda' like a miniature trash can on wheels. Don't tell Homer.
The handiest part is the take-apart handle so you can easily put it all in the trunk of your Toyota Camry and take it to Grandma's house.
Fully assembled it is 41" high (17" w/o the handle), and the ½" diameter axle is 18" long with 8" mower wheels and tap on axle caps. inside the bucket we used fender washers at the bottom and a fender washer over one of those 3" x 5" perforated splice plates at the top. The bolts are 3/8" carriage with nylock nuts on the inside.
The bucket we originally designed to did not have those raised peripheral rings near the top which explains the shaped wood block I added just above the upper bolt.
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Hey, I'm startin' to foam a bit here. What do we have to do to get our names in the hat for the upcoming UTB?
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Far from being a basic tool but still interesting is the Micro 3D printer.
Wouldn't it be cool for TIA to buy into their Kick off with the $299 plus another $48 for the additional four colors and include the printer and spools of feed stock in the UTB?
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Now THAT"S a cool set of tools.
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Good link. Impressive! Thanks
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I've been anticipating the possible new release of an 8" helical bench jointer by Steel City. They aren't planning to introduce their new tools 'till August 20-23 at the Atlanta Tool Show.
I won't be going. Silly me - who else would want to avoid HotLanta in August.
Never the less, I am curious to know what new tools, or even improved for woodworking old tools, may soon thereafter be showing up on retailers' shelves.
So, if any of you plan to go, I'd appreciate some feedback of what Steel City may have on display there.
Also, if you should stumble across the Carter Products booth and a guy named Alex Snodgrass is giving his bandsaw setup clinic - don't pass up the opportunity. IMHO (not all that humble, at times) no one else on the planet knows as much as this man about the common bandsaw.
If you can't see him in person just Google 'Bandsaw Clinic with Alex Snodgrass' and watch the video.
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I'm looking forward to the day when you can feed wire stock into one of these and get a metal part out.
Feed in copper and get a copper part. Feed it aluminum and get an aluminum part. Feed in solid core solder and get a lead alloy part. I guess you might even be able to feed MIG welding wire into it and get a steel part.
That kinda reminds me of the old alchemists' quest of being able to turn lead into gold. Feed in solid core solder and get a gold part.
Yep! I want one!
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Yep! like my uncle use to say, "Why be a nuisance? With a little more effort you can be a real stinker!"
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Hey Regopit, Where do I go to see Guy's wood shop?
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My old man was a cop so the drinking and pot was pretty much off the table. But, chasing a skirt or two was, as they say, a whole 'nother story!
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WOW! I have Charter cable and get between 35 and 45 download speed depending on the test point location and bandwidth usage.
Google Fiber sounds awesome! Sadly, I don't see it on the map in Northern NV - yet.
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Cool! I think this thread will probably end showing that the longest lasting tools are the most basic and simplest of hand tools.
In the decades before most of us roamed this planet the theory was, make it once - make it right - make it to last - we don't want to spend the time to have to make it again.
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Not yet. But, I keep on tryin'
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I have recently scratched the entire state of Tennessee off my 'I'd like to go there sometime' list - permanently.
Two years ago my daughter and her then fiancé were driving through central Tennessee on I-40 eastbound heading for Knoxville.
West of Nashville they were stopped by Tennessee's Anti Drug Task Force without probable cause. They were blocked from moving, ,extracted from their vehicles, forced to sit in poison Ivy while a drug dog was being summoned to the scene. They found a couple grams of marijuana (confiscated - possession of drugs). They also had vacation snacks and drinks in zip lock bags and a couple extra empty bags (confiscated those - possession for sale). They also had personal firearms locked in handgun vaults with the keys around their necks (confiscated - armed drug transporters). And, the vehicle, a one year old Odyssey (confiscated - drug transport vehicle). They were taken to a small county jail west of Nashville where the local cops had to hold them all the while apologizing and telling them they really didn't belong there.
Both have since been tried and convicted of charges serious enough to keep the confiscated SUV as well as both glock 40's and their vaults. Tennessee has very liberal confiscation laws and an antiquated court system. The State and County Officials want only the cash money they can take from Westbound out of state vehicles and the cars and other property of value they can confiscate from Eastbound out of state vehicles. They do not want to imprison their victims. That would be a counterproductive expense to the state. It's simply a legal form of Highway Robbery. It's how Tennessee earns income.
They do all this under the guise of Drug Traffic interdiction. At any given time today on I-40 in central Tennessee you can see clusters of as many as six or seven of these black unmarked SUVs in the median looking for East or West coast plates and ready to pounce. Sometimes several of these unmarked vehicles actually pull out and compete with each other for who is going to get the credit for stealing from the poor sucker in their sights. When my ex-wife returned from having accompanied my daughter back there for trial, she said she was petrified by what she saw on I-40 during their roughly 35 mile drive from the airport to the adjacent county courthouse and back.
There is one obvious flaw to this whole story, however. The entire state of Tennessee, with a total population smaller than the incorporated City of Chicago, isn't a spit in the ocean of a drug market. Any real drug trafficking could easily be rerouted to avoid the entire state and there are other roads besides I-40. But, here is the real kicker. If this activity really was interfering with major drug trafficking, after about the second major drug or cash confiscation several high ranking government and law enforcement officials in the Nashville area would be found dead one morning all wearing Columbian neckties.
Should you have doubts about this story or think this can't really be happening; please Google Nashville's local News TV Station Chanel 5 coverage videos exposing this entire operation on You Tube, and yet it continues. Where the hell is Scott Pelly & 60 Minutes when you need them?
All those nice Tennessee vacation spots will go unvisited by me. I don't want so much as the shadow of the rear view mirror of my rental car to fall on Tennessee soil.
My apologies if I've stepped on any sensitive non-involved toes. Color me just a bit pissed at how low the Tennessee state government has gone to make money.
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Absolutely, Nick:
Perhaps I left too much doubt about my choice of materials. My final design will definitely be made of steel. I am, however, looking at tool rest designs executed in wood as well as steel. Many home built tool rests clearly show traces of grey matter having spawned their design and functionality - as opposed to the more commercial approach couched in a total concern for minimal manufacturing costs and the wholesale bottom line.
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I say B&D and DeWalt (basically one in the same), but they blew it when they didn't make an impact driver to accept the 18volt NiCad batteries. Granted they wanted to promote their new LI battery technology by forcing everybody run right out and buy up new drills when the old ones, not to mention all the spare NiCad batteries we'd purchased for them, still work just fine.
When I do have to upgrade to LI batteries I won't be buying B&D or DeWalt just because of that blatant disloyalty to all their existing NiCad powered tool owners.
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I have a hammer I've had since junior high (before Summer 1956). My father gave me the head (a 16 oz. claw head with a slight chip out of one side of the face) but with no handle. On it's side it said PLUMB Guaranteed. Later that Summer I started to do add jobs for the family that owned the local Western Auto store and there I bought a hickory hammer handle. Somehow I managed to shape and fit the top of the handle to fit into the head, drive in the wedge from the top, and seal the top with two part epoxy. A couple years later my father bought me a Dunlap block plane. And a year later he bought me a Craftsman 1/4" socket set.
Today, 58 years later, I use the hammer as often as I need a hammer, used the plane just last week to shape a couple curved templates, and the socket set mostly collects dust now thanks to cordless drill drivers.
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I'd like to see a merger of Hitachi and Makita. Hey! They are almost the same color and to the colorblind a Makita is just a shop worn Hitachi.
Kidding aside, I think both companies could benefit. Leave all the cordless tools to the Makita folks and the corded and pneumatics to the Hitachi folks. They could each almost double their individual retail exposure and combine their warranty maintenance and service facilities. More importantly however would be the benefits from shuffling the Engineering & R&D decks to inject a little 'new blood' into both houses.
What think you?
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Kokjaywin:
I wouldn't mind getting involved in writing tool reviews. What tools or tool lines do you have in mind?
2014 Atlanta Tool Show
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I don't know if its just that I'm getting old(er) or what, but most big cities are beginning to affect me the same way.