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266535 Kirk Eppler <eppler.kirk@g...> 2018‑09‑18 Galoot Timeline Project
Hey gang of gathered galoots.

Found an interesting galoot timeline project, definitely beating anything I
have done for drawn out timelines.

I found this nifty wooden box, kind of unfinished, at a flea market for
$2.  Its nice QS white oak, lap joints at the corners, a bit of router work
for the details.  See far right here.

https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/Woodworking-Tools/i-cBh5sdq

I spoke to the woman running the booth, she we pleased someone was taking
it.  It was her husband's high school woodworking project, and he never got
around to putting the hinges on it.  Hisname is scrawled in pencil on the
bottom.  They had been using it for various things, now was time to get rid
of it.

No big deal, except the husband was 70.  It's been sitting unfinished for
~55 years.

Now, not being one to foul up someone's project, I am not going to rush
into this.  But I do have a few pairs of Sargent NOS brass hinges hiding
somewhere, and lots of NOS brass screws.  Don't think I will go so far as
to add a lock to this, but at least hinges will make it slightly more
useful.  Sometime in the next year or so seems appropriate and respectful.

-- 
Kirk Eppler in Half Moon Bay, CA, who put away a lot of that stuff last
night.
266536 John Ruth <johnrruth@h...> 2018‑09‑18 Re: Galoot Timeline Project
Kirk, and Schedule-Challenged Galoots:


That was FUNNY!  If OLDTOOLS had a "Like Button," I'd be clicking it for that
one!  (I've written the same thing to a handful of other posters, but VERY few.)


50 years...he, he, he. Galoot timeline for sure!


Is that QS Oak box the right size to contain a Stanley 45 or 55 multiplane?  If
so, there's your use for it.


Tell us about the really decrepit-looking piece of case-goods that you are using
as a display table.  Is this another "someday" restoration project? Something
from which to salvage useable wood?


Good find!  Good post!


John Ruth

Metuchen, NJ
266537 RH <rhhutchins@h...> 2018‑09‑18 Re: Galoot Timeline Project
Kirk, I am 76 yo and want to see how that one turns out; so put your 
galoot timeline in high gear, please.

Bob Hutchins
Temple, TX (Southwestern state in the USA, Jeff)
266538 Kirk Eppler <eppler.kirk@g...> 2018‑09‑18 Re: Galoot Timeline Project
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 1:46 PM John Ruth  wrote:

> That was FUNNY!  If OLDTOOLS had a "Like Button," I'd be clicking it for
> that one!  (I've written the same thing to a handful of other posters, but
> VERY few.)
>
>
> 50 years...he, he, he. Galoot timeline for sure!
>
>
> Is that QS Oak box the right size to contain a Stanley 45 or 55
> multiplane?  If so, there's your use for it.
>
>
> Tell us about the really decrepit-looking piece of case-goods that you are
> using as a display table.  Is this another "someday" restoration project?
> Something from which to salvage useable wood?
>
>
>
John

Thanks for the kind words.

I haven't sized the box yet.  Since I don't have a 45 or 55, and my 1080
has a factory box, I need to think downsize to the 50, or maybe the woodie
multi blade plane.  Counting back 55 years to figure out what's appropriate
doesn't give me great tool choices, so I will assume he used something more
vintage than the router or shaper to build it.

The decrepit carcass was a low boy in its previous life, doors on each end,
and drawers in the middle.  The local school had left it outside for free,
and after a week, someone took the drawers.  It sat there for another few
days before I decided to grab it for salvagable wood.  It is mostly
mahogany I think, and the only piece of plywood so far has been the really
thin back that the weather had destroyed.  The top is about 1/2" thick, 14"
deep, and about 48" long, one board.  Even the interior dividers are a
single slab, which warped as soon as I took them out.  Need to get it
dismantled and under cover soon, we are expecting more damp weather next
month.

-- 
Kirk Eppler, who discovered a pile of tool pictures that got neglected over
the past year, and caught up a bit over lunch
266539 Ed Minch <ruby1638@a...> 2018‑09‑18 Re: Galoot Timeline Project
Kirk

Write down what you know along with your thoughts on completing the project, put
the paper in the box, and leave it for the next suck…er, woodworker

Ed Minch
266540 Claudio DeLorenzi <admin@d...> 2018‑09‑18 Re: Galoot Timeline Project
>
> 55 years unfinished.


Just wondering if that makes it to any top Galoot list we've got?  For
example:
 -"Unfinished personal project" category

There has to be one for
- "Unfinished Project for Significant Other" Category

To qualify, there has to be at least some of the dimensioned lumber, idk,
for at least 50% of the project by either surface area or weight?  It
should be to the point where the project could conceivably be used for
something, but it's obviously not finished.
Because... there are simply too many projects that have never even been
started at all, so that's like vapor-ware, ideas only, so I don't think
those should count, right?
Great story
Cheers from Waterloo
Claudio
266541 Michael Blair <branson2@s...> 2018‑09‑19 Re: Galoot Timeline Project
> Don't think I will go so far as to add a lock to this... 

Well, if you do go so far, I have a few NOS Corwin brass surface locks
with keys that would work. 

Mike in Woodland
266542 "yorkshireman@y..." <yorkshireman@y...> 2018‑09‑19 Re: Galoot Timeline Project
Some snippage from this exchange - as per FAQ.  

Did anyone else notice that subtle delay excuse being built in? * 

> On 18 Sep 2018, at 22:17, Kirk Eppler  wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 1:46 PM John Ruth  wrote:
> 
>> 50 years...he, he, he. Galoot timeline for sure!
>> 
>> Is that QS Oak box the right size to contain a Stanley 45 or 55
>> multiplane?  If so, there's your use for it.
>> 
> John
> 
> Thanks for the kind words.
> 
> I haven't sized the box yet.  Since I don't have a 45 or 55, and my 1080
> has a factory box, I need to think downsize to the 50, or maybe the woodie
> multi blade plane.  Counting back 55 years to figure out what's appropriate
> doesn't give me great tool choices, so I will assume he used something more
> vintage than the router or shaper to build it.
> -- 
> Kirk Eppler, who discovered a pile of tool pictures that got neglected over
> the past year, and caught up a bit over lunch
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 


In case you missed it - here it is. 

>  Since I don't have a 45 or 55, and 

Kirk will HAVE to wait until he lays hands on a 45 or 55 before he can work on
the box.  Not just ANY 45 of course - the right one - carefully searched for,
evaluated, a couple of missing parts located, and then finally he’ll be able to
lay out the 45 and say ‘This is never going to fit that box - better get a 55’


Richard Wilson
Northumbrian galoot, where the first of the new seasons gales has hit.  
(Does having steel and castings and infill timber for planes fit the criteria
for ‘delayed projects’ ? )
266545 Ryan Mooney <rumwrks@g...> 2018‑09‑19 Re: Galoot Timeline Project
I have a rather nice cherry captains desk that I built in high school, so
around 87.  It was to have turned front legs (decorative between some base
feet and the desk top) which have yet to be done and the heavier/lower)
drawers have yet to acquire glides but have been just sitting in the
carcass floating free.  Its been happily serving duty in my dads house the
entire time though.

That only puts me at 31years for that so not in the same league really.

We won't talk about the stack of mostly dimensioned lumber that is to be
the bed frame because its not even close to a decade old yet (over half way
but we're trying not to count to closely).

I'm sure more than a few of you can beat anything here so far ;)
266551 Christopher Dunn <christopherdunn123@g...> 2018‑09‑20 Re: Galoot Timeline Project
Kirk

This is the best thing I've heard all week!

Every time I look at my ten year old stack of lumber that's supposed
to be my bench it brings me down. Now I realize that ten years is a
blink of an eye in galoot project timelines.Maybe I'll let it sit for
another ten years to let it acclimate a little more.

Thanks,
Chris

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