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255329 Gye Greene <gyegreene@g...> 2015‑07‑05 Lapping chisels at work
GGs,


I have a backlog of old chisels I need to tidy up -- particularly, lapping
the backs -- but I hate to spend my limited shop time doing this.

But -- I have an office job ("desk job") -- and often run out of things to
do during my lunch break (I eat throughout the day, and use my lunch break
for things **other** than eating).


So:  about once a week, I lap chisel backs in the men's room.

http://gyegreene.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/lapping-chisels-at-
work.html">http://gyegreene.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/lapping-chisels-at-
work.html

(I just posted this tonight -- but I back-dated the entry.)


Mostly blah-blah about lapping chisels -- which Galoots would already
know.  For Galoots, mostly just the photos.


--Travis
255331 Claudio DeLorenzi <claudio@d...> 2015‑07‑05 Re: Lapping chisels at work
>
> Re lapping sharp tools at work....


I guess Aussies are more laid back than NorthAmericans...
Here, I would worry about the arrival of a SWAT team in full battle gear
eager to 'get some'
Ie : to "takedown" the lone terrorist preparing for who knows what in the
men's room.
Claudio in Waterloo
255332 Brent Beach <brent.beach@g...> 2015‑07‑05 Re: Lapping chisels at work
But but

On 15-07-05 12:13, Claudio DeLorenzi wrote:
>>
>> Re lapping sharp tools at work....
>
>
> I guess Aussies are more laid back than NorthAmericans...
> Here, I would worry about the arrival of a SWAT team in full battle gear
> eager to 'get some'
> Ie : to "takedown" the lone terrorist preparing for who knows what in the
> men's room.
> Claudio in Waterloo

You appear to be living in Canada, the land of the laid back and easy 
going. Do they even have swat teams in Waterloo?

Brent
Drifting off topic but I spent 6 years in Waterloo and it was a pretty 
quiet place back then.
--
255335 Gye Greene <gyegreene@g...> 2015‑07‑06 Re: Lapping chisels at work
As it turns out:  my manager said that someone had made "a comment" to
her.  So I guess I'll have to stop.

Ah well:  fun while it lasted.  (I still have my electric guitar, small
amp, and small toolbox with effects pedals under my desk.  Every once in a
while I go down to the third sub-basement parking garage and rock out:
natural reverb!)


--Travis

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Claudio DeLorenzi 
wrote:

> Re lapping sharp tools at work....
>
>
> I guess Aussies are more laid back than NorthAmericans...
> Here, I would worry about the arrival of a SWAT team in full battle gear
> eager to 'get some'
> Ie : to "takedown" the lone terrorist preparing for who knows what in the
> men's room.
> Claudio in Waterloo
>
255339 Mark Pfeifer <markpfeifer@i...> 2015‑07‑06 Re: Lapping chisels at work
SNIP: 
On Jul 6, 2015, at 4:50 AM, Gye Greene  wrote:

> my manager said that someone had made "a comment" to
> her.  So I guess I'll have to stop.

>>>> I’d sue for gender discrimination. I once had a female co worker who came
back to work immediately after childbirth. She was in the loo using a noisy
breast pump every day and nobody said a word. She was really distraught because
she didn’t want to leave her baby in a child care, but had no choice (as she saw
it) because she needed the money. Nobody said anything because we sympathized
with her. But I can’t see how lapping chisel backs would be more of a
distraction than occasionally flashing D-sized breasts around the office . . . .
this is another example of the Man trying to hold the Man . . . . oh wait a
minute . . . .
255347 Gye Greene <gyegreene@g...> 2015‑07‑07 Re: Lapping chisels at work
LOL!


Well -- I admit, there *were* two sessions where I was sharpening a
colleague's kitchen knives.  So maybe it was one of the "knife days" that
freaked someone out.

Dunno.


FWIW -- our building actually has a "breast pump room", on another floor.
(It's called something more innocuous, though:  "Family Room", maybe.)


--TWAB

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Mark Pfeifer 
wrote:

> SNIP:
> On Jul 6, 2015, at 4:50 AM, Gye Greene  wrote:
>
> my manager said that someone had made "a comment" to
> her.  So I guess I'll have to stop.
>
>
> >>>> I’d sue for gender discrimination. I once had a female co worker who
> came back to work immediately after childbirth. She was in the loo using a
> noisy breast pump every day and nobody said a word. She was really
> distraught because she didn’t want to leave her baby in a child care, but
> had no choice (as she saw it) because she needed the money. Nobody said
> anything because we sympathized with her. But I can’t see how lapping
> chisel backs would be more of a distraction than occasionally flashing
> D-sized breasts around the office . . . . this is another example of the
> Man trying to hold the Man . . . . oh wait a minute . . . .
>
>
>
255349 Don Schwartz <dks@t...> 2015‑07‑07 Re: Lapping chisels at work
A sign on the door might have helped. Something like 'Free Knife 
Sharpening Lessons' maybe

Don

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure
foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow

On 2015-07-06 7:12 PM, Gye Greene wrote:
> Well -- I admit, there*were*  two sessions where I was sharpening a
> colleague's kitchen knives.  So maybe it was one of the "knife days" that
> freaked someone out.
255350 John Leyden <leydenjl@g...> 2015‑07‑07 Re: Lapping chisels at work
Gye Greene wrote:

As it turns out:  my manager said that someone had made "a comment" to
her.  So I guess I'll have to stop.

Ah well:  fun while it lasted.
—

So it goes for spoon carving on the sidelines of the kids’ weekend-long soccer
tournament. The grownups have rules about “weapons.”

A hook knife. Really!?

Yes, indeed.
255352 Kirk Eppler <eppler.kirk@g...> 2015‑07‑07 Re: Lapping chisels at work
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:01 PM, John Leyden  wrote:

> So it goes for spoon carving on the sidelines of the kids’ weekend-long
> soccer tournament. The grownups have rules about “weapons.”


Yup, never even tried where anyone could see me.  I occasionally rehabbed
tools away from the rest of them, but not often during 8 years of traveling
for soccer and volleyball.


-- 
Kirk Eppler in HMB, where a nice warm evening walk was in order, without a
sweatshirt for a change.
255353 Don Schwartz <dks@t...> 2015‑07‑07 Re: Lapping chisels at work
And yet they'd likely have no concerns about a table fork, 'unbreakable' 
umbrella or unopened can of pop - each of which can be used as an 
improvised weapon. An ordinary table fork is easily fashioned into a 
very nasty street weapon.

Don

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure
foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow

On 2015-07-06 9:01 PM, John Leyden wrote:
> So it goes for spoon carving on the sidelines of the kids’ weekend-long soccer
tournament. The grownups have rules about “weapons.”
>
> A hook knife. Really!?
>
> Yes, indeed
255354 Gye Greene <gyegreene@g...> 2015‑07‑07 Re: Lapping chisels at work
Ani DiFranco (American modern folksinger, Jeff) has a great line:

"Any tool is a weapon -- if you hold it right."

Metal cleats would arguably be more dangerous than a hook knife.


--Travis (Brisbane, AU)


So it goes for spoon carving on the sidelines of the kids’ weekend-long
> soccer tournament. The grownups have rules about “weapons.”
>
> A hook knife. Really!?
>
> Yes, indeed.
>
255357 Scott Garrison <sbg2008@c...> 2015‑07‑07 Re: Lapping chisels at work
Lapping chisels in the men's room...and I thought I was weird. If it
weren't for this list I would assume that this was a joke. I love it Gye,
we would get along fine.

Scott, Duluth GA
255360 Chuck Ramsey <chuck-ramsey@l...> 2015‑07‑07 Re: Lapping chisels at work
________________________________________
Galoots-
I recall reading here recently about all of the different, confusing, and
contradictory laws about knives across the USA.
I've decided that part of the solution is to never carry a "knife".  No, that's
not a hook "knife", that's a spoon hollowing tool.
I just rename the tools in my hands to the most obscure innocuous sounding name
I can find.  There is frequently historical
precedence for the names  chosen.  If the tool in question is wrapped in a rag
with the project and maybe a leather strop the
combination and association of the items answers questions that never need to be
asked.  Plane "irons" (not "blades") are
much less threatening if there is a chip-breaker installed.  
Also small tools are friendlier than large tools.  Pink tools are friendlier
than black tools.  Rags torn from child's pajamas with
bunnies or kittens are better than black denim with skull and cross-bones.
I think about my public woodworking and try to make it as innocent looking as
possible.  Being friendly, answering questions,
and handing over the tool in question handle foremost on the bunny rag eases
most concerns.  But there are always some people
who are frightened by their own shadows.
chuck 


Gye Greene wrote:

As it turns out:  my manager said that someone had made "a comment" to
her.  So I guess I'll have to stop.

Ah well:  fun while it lasted.
—

So it goes for spoon carving on the sidelines of the kids’ weekend-long soccer
tournament. The grownups have rules about “weapons.”

A hook knife. Really!?

Yes, indeed.
255361 paul womack <pwomack@p...> 2015‑07‑07 Re: Lapping chisels at work
Chuck Ramsey wrote:

> Galoots-
> I recall reading here recently about all of the different, confusing, and
contradictory laws about knives across the USA.
> I've decided that part of the solution is to never carry a "knife".  No,
that's not a hook "knife", that's a spoon hollowing tool.
> I just rename the tools in my hands to the most obscure innocuous sounding
name I can find.  There is frequently historical
> precedence for the names  chosen.  If the tool in question is wrapped in a rag
with the project and maybe a leather strop the
> combination and association of the items answers questions that never need to
be asked.  Plane "irons" (not "blades") are
> much less threatening if there is a chip-breaker installed.
> Also small tools are friendlier than large tools.  Pink tools are friendlier
than black tools.  Rags torn from child's pajamas with
> bunnies or kittens are better than black denim with skull and cross-bones.
> I think about my public woodworking and try to make it as innocent looking as
possible.  Being friendly, answering questions,
> and handing over the tool in question handle foremost on the bunny rag eases
most concerns.

That a fine example of what Granny Weatherwax (or possibly Terry Pratchett)
calls
headology!

  BugBear
255365 Thomas Conroy 2015‑07‑08 Re: Lapping chisels at work
Chuck Ramsey wrote: "...Small tools are friendlier than large tools.  Pink tools
are friendlier than black tools.  Rags torn from child's pajamas with
bunnies or kittens are better than black denim with skull and cross-bones.
"I think about my public woodworking and try to make it as innocent looking as
possible.  Being friendly, answering questions,
and handing over the tool in question handle foremost on the bunny rag eases
most concerns..."

But then:
https://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=YQCeBnZewpM
Tom Conroy

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