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256106 Michael Suwczinsky <nicknaylo@g...> 2015‑09‑04 BAG A Thon 2015 Reminder
Gentle Galoots, We are at B minus 9 days from the 2015 BAG-A-Thon.

Festivities start around 10 AM on Saturday, September 12th at my house:

5505 Santa Cruz Ave.
Richmond, CA 94804.

My cell is 510/847-1720.

Activities will include Tom Conroy's demo on Best English Octagonal handles

To be performed on Joe Parker's (hopefully) completed Gentlemens
Combination Workbench

http:
//img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/irnsrgn/odd/wwingbench.jpg

(though I understand that Joe's bench is in COLOR!)

Bill Kasper and I will be forging Roubo style planing stops at the anvil in
the smithy,

http://lostartpress.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/forp_stop_img_6967.jpg"
>http://lostartpress.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/forp_stop_img_6967.jpg

and we'll have two workbenches out for a scrub plane competition with
valuable prizes!! So bring your 40, 40.5, radiused jack or euro horned
scrub.

Food is traditionally a combination of potluck that leaves everyone
groaning.  I'll have the grill with the brats and saurkraut going, along
with beverages both hard and soft.

This will also be the final wooden wine box distribution by Greg Hahn, so
if you haven't yet built a spokeshave rack, biscuit jointer box or just
classed up your scrap wood box, next week is your last chance.

Rough headcount would be nice, but everyone is welcome.

See you next week.

Michael - frightening the neighbors since the year Four.

--
256110 Paul Gardner <yoyopg@g...> 2015‑09‑04 Re: BAG A Thon 2015 Reminder
Big thanks for hosting this year Michael.  I'm looking forward to it.

-Paul

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Michael Suwczinsky 
wrote:

> Gentle Galoots, We are at B minus 9 days from the 2015 BAG-A-Thon.
>
> Festivities start around 10 AM on Saturday, September 12th at my house:
>
> 5505 Santa Cruz Ave.
> Richmond, CA 94804.
>
> My cell is 510/847-1720.
>
> Activities will include Tom Conroy's demo on Best English Octagonal handles
>
> To be performed on Joe Parker's (hopefully) completed Gentlemens
> Combination Workbench
>
> htt
p://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/irnsrgn/odd/wwingbench.jpg
>
> (though I understand that Joe's bench is in COLOR!)
>
> Bill Kasper and I will be forging Roubo style planing stops at the anvil
> in the smithy,
>
> http://lostartpress.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/forp_stop_img_6967.jp
g">http://lostartpress.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/forp_stop_img_6967.jpg
>
> and we'll have two workbenches out for a scrub plane competition with
> valuable prizes!! So bring your 40, 40.5, radiused jack or euro horned
> scrub.
>
> Food is traditionally a combination of potluck that leaves everyone
> groaning.  I'll have the grill with the brats and saurkraut going, along
> with beverages both hard and soft.
>
> This will also be the final wooden wine box distribution by Greg Hahn, so
> if you haven't yet built a spokeshave rack, biscuit jointer box or just
> classed up your scrap wood box, next week is your last chance.
>
> Rough headcount would be nice, but everyone is welcome.
>
> See you next week.
>
> Michael - frightening the neighbors since the year Four.
>
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256113 Joseph Parker <joeparker@s...> 2015‑09‑05 Re: BAG A Thon 2015 Reminder
> Activities will include Tom Conroy's demo on Best English Octagonal handles
>
> To be performed on Joe Parker's (hopefully) completed Gentlemens
> Combination Workbench
>
> htt
p://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/irnsrgn/odd/wwingbench.jpg
>
> (though I understand that Joe's bench is in COLOR!)
>
>
Actually, the one I'm building is closer to this one:

http://toolemera.com/Tool%20Chests/Tool%20Cabinets%20Vintage/melhuishex
celsior.html">http://toolemera.com/Tool%20Chests/Tool%20Cabinets%20Vintage/melhu
ishexcelsior.html

And, yes, I decided to build it in COLOR!

Joe P. - hoping for an upgrade to Gentleman status
256119 Michael Blair <branson2@s...> 2015‑09‑05 Re: BAG A Thon 2015 Reminder
> Actually, the one I'm building is closer to this one:

> http://toolemera.com/Tool%20Chests/Tool%20Cabinets%20Vintage/melhuish
excelsior.html">http://toolemera.com/Tool%20Chests/Tool%20Cabinets%20Vintage/mel
huishexcelsior.html

That's an impressive project.  I look forward to photos
(color) when it's completed.

Mike in Sacto
256120 Ron Harper <kokomorontoo@g...> 2015‑09‑05 Re: BAG A Thon 2015 Reminder
Gary said


>> Actually, the one I'm building is closer to this one:
> 
>> http://toolemera.com/Tool%20Chests/Tool%20Cabinets%20Vintage/melhuis
hexcelsior.html">http://toolemera.com/Tool%20Chests/Tool%20Cabinets%20Vintage/me
lhuishexcelsior.html
> 
> 

Wow.  I would love to have that for my small shop..  But at 70, i am not sure
about the cost/benefit analysis.  If I had a young woodworker coming along be
hind me............. But I don't.

Ron. A Kokomo Galoot



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256121 Ed Minch <ruby1638@a...> 2015‑09‑05 Re: BAG A Thon 2015 Reminder
>> 
>> Actually, the one I'm building is closer to this one:
> 
>> http://toolemera.com/Tool%20Chests/Tool%20Cabinets%20Vintage/melhuis
hexcelsior.html">http://toolemera.com/Tool%20Chests/Tool%20Cabinets%20Vintage/me
lhuishexcelsior.html
> 

Interesting that the imported American Walnut is less expensive than oak - but I
am not sure what “Wainscot” oak is.  Did they not have a lot of English Walnut?

Ed Minch
256124 Thomas Conroy 2015‑09‑06 Re: BAG A Thon 2015 Reminder
: Ed Minch wrote:

"Interesting that the imported American Walnut is less expensive than oak - but
I am not sure what ?Wainscot? oak is.  Did they not have a lot of English
Walnut?"

"Wainscot oak" would be riven oak, later the best quartersawn oak, wide boards
with lots of flake figure in it. The English regarded black walnut (jugulans
nigra) as an inferior substitute, coarser and softer than jugulans regia; but I
think that black walnut was being harvested out of old-growth forest so there
was a lot more of it, while English walnut was only available as occasional
ornamental and orchard trees. And there was always a shortage of jugulans regia,
apart from anything else due to its popularity for gunstocks, so if I remember
correctly they also imported a lot of it from France and even from the Middle
East.
Tom Conroy

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