GG

We were just talking about a collapsible set of sticks to check corners
for square when this appeared in my box

http://www.woodpeck.com/ottpythagoras.html?et_mid=548758&rid=3218134

These guys put out a one-time only tool for woodworkers every couple of
months, as well as a line of tools they carry all the time. They are
very expensive, but also I find them vey interesting. I haven't , and
probably won't, buy anything from them, but I enjoy looking. I
anticipate their stuff appearing on old tool for sale lists in ten years
like we see Bridge City stuff in the box, or Satanly centennial stuff in
the box. But this is a cool idea.

Ed Minch

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On 4/12/2012 6:24 AM, Ed Minch wrote:
> GG
>
> We were just talking about a collapsible set of sticks to check
> corners for square when this appeared in my box
>
> http://www.woodpeck.com/ottpythagoras.html?et_mid=548758&rid> These
> guys put out a one-time only tool for woodworkers every couple of
> months, as well as a line of tools they carry all the time. They are
> very expensive, but also I find them vey interesting. I haven't , and
> probably won't, buy anything from them, but I enjoy looking. I
> anticipate their stuff appearing on old tool for sale lists in ten
> years like we see Bridge City stuff in the box, or Satanly centennial
> stuff in the box. But this is a cool idea.
>
>
> Ed Minch
>
They do make some interesting (but generally pretty ugly) stuff. This
one seemed at first like a solution waiting for a problem, but I suppose
it would be useful to check for square when the materials you're working
with aren't flat, or there are obstructions, etc. FWIW Don
--
I have tried too in my time, to be a philosopher; but I don't know how,
cheerfulness was always breaking in. - Oliver Edwards
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On 4/12/2012 6:24 AM, Ed Minch wrote:
> GG
>
> We were just talking about a collapsible set of sticks to check
> corners for square when this appeared in my box
>
> http://www.woodpeck.com/ottpythagoras.html?et_mid=548758&rid
lol.

I've said it before. It bears repeating.

We live like royalty in the modern age.

We eat superior quality fresh foods with a stupendous variety while our
fore fathers ate what they could grow themselves or find and were
limited to a trivial variety of things often suffering mold and
corruption as normal. We recline on stuffed sprung couches, chairs, and
beds with clean sheets while our fore bearers slept on parasite infested
straw mats and sat on splintery stump stools We live in insulated heated
and often air conditioned homes with running water and electricity to do
our bidding, to clean us regularly, and light our way to our powered
devices. We excrete in specialty made ceramic bowels that flush our
waste away to where we care not, no longer having to dig trenches and
freeze in the cold or use a bucket suffering the stench of it all
through the night. We have family and friend festivals so resplendent
they would make the hall of Odin look poverty stricken. We go on
vacations where we pay to be waited upon like potentates We have tools
made of exotic metals specialty steels forged and hardened to pursue
mere entertaining hobbies with no pressure to produce for survival. We
have medicine like the world has never seen with vaccinations against
the worst of diseases, dentistry, antibiotics and technological marvels
of astonishing complexity and cost available to us for little more than
the asking. We are often land owners. We own personal property that
would make our fore fathers wince from the excess and opulence. We don't
fear escheature to some baron. We can let land lie fallow and leave our
precious things to our loved ones. We have electronics computers
Televisions radios stereos mobile phones galore.

And for some reason that I can't fathom some of us insist that things
are not marvelous. Times have never been better.

One old tool once said: "Madam, I have given you a Republic - - if you
can keep it."

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Cliff noted:
>> http://www.woodpeck.com/ottpythagoras.html?et_mid=548758&rid> lol.
> I've said it before. It bears repeating. We live like royalty in the
> modern age. ...

Yes, yes. But surely you don't expect me to be satisfied with mere
opulence. Why be simply happy when one can be ecstatic? Until we reach
these goals, how can we feel good about ourselves and our situation?

cur - who's finally come to believe there's more money in selling to
woodworkers than in woodworking itself.
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Curt and GGs;

Your new fishing lure doesn't have to catch fish; it just has to catch
fishermen.

Steve another Kokomo galoot

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:44 AM, curt seeliger <seeligerc@g...> wrote:
> Yes, yes. =A0But surely you don't expect me to be satisfied with mere
> opulence. =A0Why be simply happy when one can be ecstatic? =A0Until we
> reach these goals, how can we feel good about ourselves and our
> situation?
>
> cur - who's finally come to believe there's more money in selling to
> woodworkers than in woodworking itself.
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Cliff Rohrabacher Esq: With all due respect, sir, the Porch is not a
place for reciting and repeating sermons. Can you cut it out, please?
sincerely; gam in Seattle, WA USA

--- On Thu, 4/12/12, Cliff Rohrabacher, Esq wrote:

> lol.
>> I've said it before. It bears repeating. We live like royalty in the
>> modern age. We eat superior quality=A0 fresh foods with a
> stupendous=A0 variety while our fore fathers ate what they could grow
> themselves or find=A0 and were limited to a trivial variety=A0 of
> things often suffering mold and=A0 corruption as normal. We recline on
> stuffed sprung couches, chairs, and beds with clean sheets while our
> fore bearers slept=A0 on parasite infested straw mats and=A0 sat on
> splintery stump stools We live in=A0 insulated=A0 heated and often air
> conditioned homes=A0 with=A0 running water and electricity to do our
> bidding, to clean us regularly, and light our way to our powered
> devices. We excrete in=A0 specialty made ceramic bowels that flush our
> waste away to where we care not,=A0 no longer having to=A0 dig
> trenches and freeze in the=A0 cold or=A0 use a bucket suffering the
> stench of it all through the night. We have family and friend
> festivals so resplendent they would make the hall of Odin look poverty
> stricken. We go on vacations where we pay to be waited upon like=A0
> potentates We have tools made of exotic metals specialty steels forged
> and=A0 hardened=A0 to pursue mere entertaining hobbies with no
> pressure to produce for survival. We have medicine like the world has
> never seen with vaccinations against the worst of diseases,=A0
> dentistry, antibiotics and technological marvels of astonishing
> complexity and cost available to us for little more than the asking.
> We are often land owners. We own personal property that would make our
> fore fathers wince=A0 from the excess and opulence. We don't fear
> escheature to some baron. We can let land lie fallow and leave our
> precious things to our loved ones. We have electronics computers
> Televisions radios stereos mobile phones galore.
>> And for some reason that=A0 I can't fathom some of us
> insist that things are not marvelous.=A0 Times have never been better.
>>> One old tool once said:
> "Madam, I have given you a Republic - - if you can keep it."
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