Welcome aboard..we've had a lapse of intros for a few weeks.
As for your tenon "problem"....I use an Atkins with an 18" blade filed 12
tpi crosscut for big 'uns and a later Disston with a 12" blade filed the
same for smaller ones. Galootaclaus was overly generous with Adria small
dovetail saw so my Jackson filed to rip is seeing mostly till time. Smaller
backsaws seem to be plentiful right now, but not what I'd call "cheap". If
you watch that auction site we all love to hate, you'll see plenty. Perhaps
a few will turn up in some FS lists here on the porch...hint hint...
...which reminds me..we've got a growing group of galoots who have taken me
up on the free image hosting offer. If you don't have a place to put your
pics, give me a holler. Perfect way to get your pics online, be they shop
pics, tool pics, project pics...and especially FS pics! We've got about 250
images online now and growing daily. Did I mention that it is free? My only
vested interest in the thing is that since it is mine, I look at it more
often than most and probably get to see your pics first!
Cheers all,
Jim E #2 in Wisconsin (who yesterday pulled out that Atkins to cut down a
step tool to a comfortable height and angle to replace the one that SWMBO
snagged from under my computer desk - nursing stools are ergonomically
perfect foot rests for computer desks!)
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Beaupre [mailto:ebeaupre@e...]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:16 PM
To: oldtools
Subject: [oldtools] Introduction and "other"
OK! OK!
I can't hold out any longer! I admit, I'm hooked! I've been observing you
galoots from the sidewalk that runs in front of the porch and I can't hold
back any longer. You've definitely put me in training so to speak. I can't
resist the tender tones in which the planes and handsaws speak, it's too
much already! My name is Eric and I'm a handtoolaholic. *sigh* Ok, so now
that I have that off my chest...
a) I know someone who when trying to dunk a basketball had his wedding band
catch on the iron loops that hold the net up and rip is finger off. *ouch*
b) My not so well remembered really poor German translates to:
"Ist das nicht das schnitzelbank?
Is that not a shaving horse?
Ja, das ist das schnitzelbank!
Yes, that is a shaving horse!
O, du schone, o du schone, o du schone schnitzelbank!"
Thank, thank, thank the shaving horse!
Apparently someone really likes their shaving horse.
c) I'm a fan of previously loved tools, planes mostly, but like any good
galoot in training I'm staring to acquire a fondness for saws. I have a rip
filled DT saw which I use to cut dovetails and I'm now in search of a nice
saw to do some other joint work with. I use the tailed type of tools to
speed up work where appropriate but I'm thinking of something I might use to
put haunches on tennons and the like (I must admit the bulk of a haunched
tennon I might make for a paneled door is done with a stacked dado cutter on
a t*ble saw with a shoulder plane to trim the fit into the mortise) since it
seems to me it'd be much quicker to take a handsaw to cut out the haunch
than do another setup on the finger muncher what do I use? A Disston number
4 filled crosscut? Any other suggestions? Of course I can't think at this
moment all of the times I've been presented with an opportunity to use a
handsaw what would serve me well beside the DT saw?
d) One of the best things I've read thus far is that it's OK and maybe even
encouraged to partake of a fine ethanol infused beverage (Scotch or Bourbon
in my case, boy that Maker's Mark is good) while using only tools of the
sweat powered variety.
Now who's got that Disston number 4 I *must* have? :)
Cheers
Eric
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