> On Feb 13, 2019, at 8:38 PM, John Ruth  wrote:
> 
> Gary invents a new sort of drive-by gloat in which one decries the object of
gloatation in a self-effacing manner:
> 
>>        In case anyone's hearing a drive-by gloat, the machine's a Brown and
Sharp # 2, and the worst idea I ever had was buying it and bringing it home.
> 
> Oh, yeah, sure Gary!  I’d bet you’ve been flattening the backs of chisels and
plane irons in a matter of minutes on that surface grinder instead of hours on
the silicon carbide paper!
> 
> Pits the size of lunar craters disappear, leaving a planar surface on a now-
flexible chisel.
> 
> Probably working your way up to an assault on a plane sole, just as soon as
you can figure out away to secure the irregular shape.
> 
> Yeah, no galoot ever needs a surface grinder, not even one powered by a
waterwheel.


In another place and time, when I still worked for a living and lived on the
left coast, I  had a co-worker, another tool nut, who bought a surface grinder.
Stupid me (tee hee) let him practice on a few of my planes. The K3, K4 and K5
came out beautiful. The K4 1/2 was a rusty, pitted beast when I got it, but he
made it flat and square. The K7 was a difficult one — too big for the grinder.
So he ground the area ahead of the mouth, then turned it around and ground the
area after the mouth. Perfect. Hard to believe I have been using these planes
for more than 20 years now.

Bill