Planer blades.

[tiredofspam]

Just switched out my planer blades today. Damn I wish I had done that earlier. I had a feeling my feed problems might be related.

After seeing the cut after, I'm wondering why I didn't do it earlier. It's like glass again.

Even though I sharpen my hand plane blades regularly, I avoid the machines until I have to. The jointer I touch up while still on the jointer. But the planer ... that's another story. I noticed that the cut was also off from one side to the other. And that was really getting my attention.

Plan to bring the blades to Forrest when I drop my saw blade off. I figure if they sharpen it like my saw blade, I'll be happy.

[Leon]

Does Forrest sharpen planer knives?

[tiredofspam]

Yes, they do.

I am going down to drop my saw blade after the holiday. I asked if I could get a tour of the shop. I always like to see someone elses shop. You never know what kind of storage or interesting ideas you get.

If they come out as sharp as the saw blades it will be worth the $10 per blade to sharpen. I did the last one myself and while it came out excellent as is proof by the cut I am getting, I remember how hard I struggled to knock down the nick and then size the blade, then hone it. A big long blade is tougher than a hand held plane iron.

That struggle might be the reas> >> Just switched out my planer blades today.

[Leon]

Good to know

[G. Ross]

How do you and Swing ever get anything done (such as making a living)? You do such fine work but you are always online giving advice and helping us lesser mortals. We appreciate it but I still don't understand how you do it all.

[Leon]

Swingman charges a lot. '~)

I retired at 40 and do this mostly for fun although lately I have been getting more and more work. I don't charge enough but it keeps me as busy as I want to be. At the moment I am between jobs, Swingman and I deliver my last pieces yesterday morning.

Basically it helps to be working from home as we both do and we do often work weekends and later in the evenings and earlier that many get up.

[Swingman]

ROTFL ... note the date. Most of us folks are taking a much needed break. :)

And besides, since I posted that post before last, I've picked up, then unloaded, some 8' pipe for pipe clamps, loaded two sheets of plywood in the truck to be rough cut in the next thirty minutes (gotta wait for "climate change" to resume sunny!), fixed my shop door where I accidentally locked it and had to break in, and organized my sandpaper and ten years worth of jigs.

An easy day, so far ... and the shop door can never be more than 60' from wheresoever I sit.

And Leon is even closer, unless he's picking up Great Dane poop. ;)

[Dave]

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:27:56 -0400, "G. Ross"

Nah! They only fake it as woodworkers and home builders. The real truth it that the were working on a home plot and struck oil. They managed to buy the plot and now they're closet multi-millionaires.

[Swingman]

Hehe ... yep, when I can collar Leon into helping me deliver the occasional chicken coop I've been coerced into building for someone else, and with all that extra time I have on hand, we kinda do look like the Beverly Hillbillies humming down the road:

(there is no truth to the rumor that there's oil magnates in either of our closets ... pest control is the key)

[Bill]

That may indeed be one of the finest looking chicken coops I have seen. Delivering it with red ribbons is a nice touch! : )

[G. Ross]

> (there is no truth to the rumor that there's oil magnates in either of

When I lived it Texas somehow I got the mineral rights along with the house (It was inside the city limits). Someone put in a gas well about a half mile behind our house down in the woods. The first year our share of the profits was $25. The second year it was $0.25. I kept the check as a keepsake to show I was an oil baron. The company sent me $10 worth of letters begging me to cash the check so their books would balance, but I never did. The third year they capped off the well.

[Lee Michaels]

"Swingman" wrote

Sounds like a security problem. Any ideas on keeping out the local riff raff? :)

[Leon]

Every one in Texas has an oil well. LOL

Actually there is an oil well two streets over in our neighborhood.

[Swingman]

Hey, Dave ... now you know were all that Festool comes from!! :)

[Swingman]

[Swingman]

>>>>> (there is no truth to the rumor that there's oil magnates in either of

Yep, with "town lot" O&G leasing, the Lessor usually makes his money on the signing bonus, or never.

1/8th royalty, on a +/- 1/8th acre lot, in a 640 acre gas pool, is akin to a popcorn fart in a hurricane.

Since most company's won't drill without a solid drilling block, the best thing to do with a town lot is hold out until the rig is delivered (I can tell some stories about that).

In your case, if you had held out, and you got 8/8ths participation on the +/-1/8th acre lot (just a guess on lot size), that first year royalty payment would have been closer to $200. Marginally better than a sharp poke in the eye.

Then again, by not signing, and depending upon how good their lawyers are, you might have been stuck with operating costs as an operating partner.

I've been on both sides of that fence ... :)

[Dave]

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:20:43 -0400, "G. Ross"

That reminds me of when I got a .05 cheque from a law firm I had business with. Yup. .05 cents. The lawyer I had was going off to start up his own firm and the company wanted to keep the books straight seeing as to how they had overcharged me. I never cashed that cheque either.

I've always wondered what those .05 cents cost them to record, refund, mail and balance.

[Dave]

What? You mean Leon tunneled over to that well and tapped in?

[HeyBub]

Look around. There are blade sharpening services in every city. They usually service the paper-cutting blades found in print shops, but a planer or joiner blade is much the same (only smaller).

I take my planer blades to a shop that resharpens blades for commercial printer's paper cutters. The largest blade they can do is about five feet in length.

[Dave]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 21:00:56 -0500, "HeyBub"

Just out of interest's sake, is there much of a cost difference sharpening spiral planer blades as compared to straight ones? And, is a specialty sharpening shop needed for them or can most do the job these days?