Steven,
Welcome! I was born in Philadelphia at a very early age
but grew out of it quickly - we lived off Cottman Avenue
until I was 4. No, what you did with that hemlock handrail
is *not* cheating, and anyone who would do that with hand
tools is absolutely in the right place! Pull up a chair.
Sounds like a nice bench. If I'm understanding right from the
porch dwellers, benches are not a project that are ever
completely finished; if you use it, you'll keep tuning it for
the rest of your life. There just comes to a time when you
spend less time building it and more time using it.
By the way, kids like eggbeater drills.
Gary K
Close to Buffalo NY
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> Hello all, my name is Steven C. Kumpf Jr. I currently reside in
> Philadelphia, am 28 with a wife and a 2.5 year old boy. I have been
> consulting the
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> hand, my lathe is belt driven, but I want to ask, the banister, I bought
> the
> stock hemlock rail from h*m# ch!po. It is close enough that
> I can modify it to match the ballustrades that are in the rest of the
> house
> which is the whole point of the project. I planed off the two cock beads
> that are on either side and planed off about 7/16ths from the bottom.
> Then I
> stuck on a 1/4 inch bead on the two bottom sides for the finish. Pretty
> simple but my question is, is this cheating? I know if I wanted to do it
> the
> galoot way, I would have had to chop a tree down with an axe and hew it
> by hand
> with a hewing hatchet. Do true galoots only use wooden planes? What is
> the
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