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269271 | James Pickering <jpickering5@c...> | 2019‑10‑03 | My work area |
One more, fellow old tool lovers and users: I have to work in close quarters these days - I illustrate my work area at: https://jp29.org/bench.htm">https://jp29.org/bench.htm James Sent from my iPad |
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269276 | Bill Webber | 2019‑10‑04 | Re: My work area |
Hey James, Glad to see you are still able to pursue your projects. I seem some exotic-appearing wood blanks on the bench. What are your plans for those? Your bench is very clean and neat. Do you really make things or are you just putting us on? :-) Bill W. Nottingham, PA Woodworkers visit me at http://billwebber.galootcentral.com/ |
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269277 | James Pickering <jpickering5@c...> | 2019‑10‑04 | Re: My work area |
Hello Bill, The wood blanks/odds-and-ends are for decoration and my pleasure. I love exotic hard woods - that results from my first school wood working teacher (Mr. Lord in 1940) giving me some pieces of Lignum Vitae, Macassar ebony and Iron wood (he loved exotic hard wood too) that I displayed on the windowsill of my bedroom. I like the look and feel of most exotic hard woods although I find most of it very difficult to work (for inlays etc.). In addition to the woods I mentioned, there are blanks and pieces of King wood, African black wood, Greenheart (?), Gaboon ebony, Tulip Wood, Snake wood, Cocobolo, Rosewood, et al. decorating my bench. Doesn’t every woodworking craftsman leave his bench clean and neat? As far as making things, well, it all depends what you mean, Bill. Although I set out to make some jewelry boxes for the ladies in my family (and some friends) I haven’t made one box yet. But I have made lots of dovetail joints and really enjoyed doing so. I may never make another box because I am enjoying just making dovetail joints too much - most of the ones I make these days will not pass muster, too many gaps and overrunning the base line - I have one of those saws that wanders from the layout lines:) But I do occasionally make good joints (like the one I pictured in the last message attachment). I am spending many enjoyable hours using my tools. Here is a pic I took just a short time ago of this morning’s dovetail joint rejects: https://jp29.org/000dovetail1.jpg">https://jp29.org/000dovetail1.jpg James Sent from my iPad |
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269278 | Ed Minch <ruby1638@a...> | 2019‑10‑04 | Re: My work area |
Wazzat den? Ed Minch |
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269279 | James Pickering <jpickering5@c...> | 2019‑10‑04 | Re: My work area |
Sorry Ed Minch but I do not understand the terminology? James Sent from my iPad |
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269280 | Dan Beck <drumsandbacon@g...> | 2019‑10‑04 | Re: My work area |
Thanks for sharing your workspace, James. I always enjoy looking at other people's workspaces. "I have one of those saws that wanders from the layout lines" - I have one of those, too! Darn saws!! -Dan |
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269284 | Praki Prakash <praki.prakash@g...> | 2019‑10‑04 | Re: My work area |
Hi James, Thanks for posting the link to your website. I really enjoyed it and I wish you many more years of happy woodworking to come. I also found the section on book binding and letterform writing very interesting. I had never thought of using wallpaper in book binding. Of course, it makes perfect sense now :) Cheers, Praki |
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269285 | James Pickering <jpickering5@c...> | 2019‑10‑04 | Re: My work area |
Thank you Praki. I have been putting a lot of effort into updating my web pages (footsteps of the “grim reaper” sounding louder and closer these days) especially the pages relating to vintage woodworking hand tools and their use. In fact, I have just finished updating my index page and https://jp29.org/woodworking.htm">https://jp29.org/woodworking.htm James Sent from my iPad |
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269290 | Ed Minch <ruby1638@a...> | 2019‑10‑04 | Re: My work area |
“What’s that then” - a way to say "I don't know what your talking about when you say that everyone wants their bench to be clean and neat". I try not to let perfection get in the way of the possible. Ed Minch |
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269291 | James Pickering <jpickering5@c...> | 2019‑10‑04 | Re: My work area |
Oh I see Bill. But I didn’t say “ …………… that everyone wants their bench to be clean and neat", I said “…………… doesn’t every woodworking craftsman leave his bench clean and neat”. (That is when he is finished working) - Just a matter of semantics. James Sent from my iPad |
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269293 | "yorkshireman@y..." <yorkshireman@y...> | 2019‑10‑04 | Re: [SPAM?] Re: My work area |
Hello James, First a big welcome, and what an interesting website. You need to come over to this end of the Porch and pull up a chair - oh, I see you walked your own over here - Well, that’s good, because we have become a bit crowded. Comes from standing and sitting around the barrel of of real ale. Anyway, I was saying, You’ll be fiting right in to our virtual porch, amongst the rockers and chairs - Windsors over there, Adirondack’s over there… What was I saying? Hate it when I can’t remember who i am. Oh aye - I was fascinated by the fitting out of trucks, and references to ‘real’ craftsmanship such as we just don’t do in everyday life any more. It’s important to kep the knowledge of how to do fine work with simple tools, and we’re the only ones doing so. And the reason for responding - apart from saying hello - was to add a bit to Bill’s comment. It’s been a bit of a habit on the Porch to elbow any of our number to sugest that they explain a bit more about what a tool is with the phrase ‘Wazzat then?’ which harks back to a former time, such as explaining a cross-Atlantic phrases by referencing one or other of members in parentheses. Richard Wilson Yorkshireman Galoot In Northumbria(that’s up near Scotland, Paddy) |
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269296 | James Pickering <jpickering5@c...> | 2019‑10‑05 | Re: [SPAM?] Re: My work area |
Good morning Richard. It is nice to start off the day conversing with a Yorkshireman! But thank you very much for the warm welcome. I was born (1929) and grew up in Burnley, Lancashire pretty much on the border with Yorkshire. According to my Grandfather the Pickering’s were originally from North Yorkshire - and according to my grandmother on my mother’s side the Baldwin’s were originally from Bacup in Lancashire. So, I could wear my cricket cap with a white Rose badge when the great rivalry match was held at Headingly (Leeds - after fish and chips at Harry Ramsden’s Emporium) and my cricket cap with a red rose badge when the match was held at Old Trafford. I avoided a lot of unpleasantness that way! Headley Verity was my all-time favorite bowler (of course Don Brahman was my all-time favorite cricketer). Please forgive all that rambling Richard - I seldom get to talk about cricket these days! I emigrated to the United States in 1950 - I now live in Tucson, Arizona. I do understand the phrase ‘Wazzat then?’ - thank you for the explanation. I have always dearly loved Vintage woodworking hand tools - and working with them. I will until the day I depart this mortal coil. So I feel in good company here indeed. Again, thank you for the warm welcome and explanation, Richard James Former Lancashire/Yorkshire lad now a “Yank”. Sent from my iPad |
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269297 | James Pickering <jpickering5@c...> | 2019‑10‑05 | Re: [SPAM?] Re: My work area |
Correction to my previous post - I am losing my grip these days! Should be Hedley Verity (great Yorkshire bowler in the 1930’s - died a hero in WWII) Should be Don Bradman - the greatest batsman of all time (Australia). BTW, I updated https://jp29.org/wwmaketruck.htm this morning. James Sent from my iPad |
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269299 | rock harris <nombre7@g...> | 2019‑10‑05 | Re: My work area |
I love cricket; one of the few Americans who does. Good to have on while working. rock harris lesser programming deity, tyro woodworker, and aficionado of obsolete machinery 314.221.5941 sent from my BatPhone.... |
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