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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 |
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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 |
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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. -- |
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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 |
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255339 | Mark Pfeifer <markpfeifer@i...> | 2015‑07‑06 | Re: Lapping chisels at work |
SNIP: On Jul 6, 2015, at 4:50 AM, Gye Greene |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. > |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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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