Tom Banes wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
I have a tendency to reach for my knife for a bunch of little jobs. Edges a little sharp? Wood wanting to peel away along the grain? Router leave a little raised area along the middle of a multi-pass cut?
The pocket knife's coming out to fix it.
Puckdropper
Table mounted router. Seems magical to run a board, upside down, across the table and find a shaped edge when you are done.
Close second is my Veritas block plane. When you take a couple of light passes, and a piece falls in place with the perfect fit, it is a rewarding experience.
My Jet cabinet saw mounted with a Forrest WWII and my Laguna band saw.
Because they to the job with repeatable results time after time with no bogging down during the cut regardless of the size or hardness of wood.
I wish that I could sort of hang with the OP and talk about some really cool feeling I get with an old hand tool, but the first thing that comes to mind is my lathe..
I can turn a scrap 2x2" into shavings and kindling and get more pleasure and stress relief than a month of visits to a shrink..
The combination of spinning wood and a sharp piece of steel held against it, with shavings peeling off is just a really great feeling... Until cleanup time.. *g*
I'd have to say the lathe is the most enjoyable for me too. A lot less stress too. If you make a goof, you just toss the piece in the trash. It's truly relaxing.
In contrast, when you're working on a large china cabinent/kitchen table for months and you make a goof, it becomes real stressful.
Something I've used for both coping and hacksaws is to put the blades in Japanese style. (ie. backwards to the NA "norm")
Blades never bend and I feel I have more control when I'm cutting with the pull stroke than with the push stroke. I'm not sure if I actually do have more control, but it feels better for some reason.
Tanus
That's when you learn to incorporate the goof into the design and call the whole thing "conceptual" and charge a fortune for it. No stress.
FoggyTown
Because "Owen Lawrence" could, he/she/it opin'd:
No. I like coping inside miters on moldings and this little saw does a pretty nice job -- if I have a decent blade in it. I got some blades at Menard's a while back, and they were NASTY; I threw them away and got some better ones at a local hardware store. I shouldn't try to save a few bux like that, I guess . . . .
Either might be a problem. I found out blades make a huge difference, and I've used other coping saws I didn't like nearly as well. Maybe your saw doesn't tension the blade enough?
-Don
Because "# Fred #" could, he/she/it opin'd:
Oh. Chainsaw. I din't make the connection 'cause I was thinking woodWORKING . . . .
OK, I LOVE my new Husqvarna 455!
I'd run lots of other chainsaws, but never had the need for one of my own until a couple of weeks ago when a huge oak out back got blown down. I could have borrowed one, but any excuse for a new toy, right?
Now that the tree's cut into logs I'm trying to make lumber with a Logosol Timberjig:
But I'm making a LOT of sawdust!!!
Sure, I know the adage:
That carpenter is not the best Who makes more dust than all the rest
Oh yeah, it's not an adage, it's an old saw . . . .
-Don
I wish my moron neighbor liked chainsaws. One of his trees blew down 3 years ago. It's still there -- huge ugly thing attracting termites. He hasn't done anything with it. The lazy bastard. I need to buy some land somewhere, far from neighbors, then the only dipshit I'd have to put up with would be myself.
Heh. That would have to be my Makita bisquit joiner. What a sweet little machine. Setting out the work is Zen, then you go Nii Nii Nii and the glue brush comes out. Beats the crap out of chiseling mortises or trying to accurately drill dowels. Did I mentions I don't like dowels? They always seem to fail after a while, be it chairs, be it tables - most repair work I do is failed dowels - I gave up using them 25 years ago . Haven't had a bisquit jointed piece fail yet.
-Peter
Which reminds me:
My Jet _ _ _ band saw. Yes, that'd be the second nominee. A revelation after struggling with a Masport 18"x6" 3 wheeler P.o.S. for 20 years that couldn't cut a single thing straight or square.
I turn it on every excuse I get :-) Guess it still qualifies as 'new toy' after only a few months. A joy to use.
-Peter
Sun, Aug 13, 2006, 3:40pm (EDT-1) snipped-for-privacy@nospam.mail.airmail.net (Tom=A0Banes) doth question: What tool do you just like to use?
Chainsaw. Great precision carving tool.
JOAT Justice was invented by the innocent. Mercy and lawyers were invented by the guilty.
yeah.... and the nice thing is that if you screw up bad enough on the lathe, it becomes "art".. *g*
As one who gets frustrated with not-quite-square corners or could-be-tighter joints, the freedom of form and such on the lathe is a definite plus.. Mac
Paslode framing nailer and Makita circular saw - it's not cabinet work.
Nail it down and cut off the overhang. It better be where you want it, because it's going to get fastened before you can change your mind.
Bosch sliding compound miter saw. I have this on a Rigid miter saw stand and love wheeling it out into the driveway when I need to make precise 90 degree cuts. My Grizzly bandsaw runs a close second since I replaced the tensioning knob with a crank.
Dick Durbin
I was going to say my LV bevel-up jointer, but I'm wondering...does a tractor count? Because it came to mind first. New Holland TC-35
Stationary Belt sander. Didn't think I'd use it that much, but it turns out I use it almost as much as the table saw. Kinda makes me want to invest in a full sized stroke sander and an edge sander one of these days. Could do without the disc, though- I've had the thing for two or three years, and haven't used the disc sander more than a dozen times, and it just gets in the way.
Works great for presanding parts, and smoothing out rough curves from the bandsaw. Cleans up imperfectly aligned miters like a champ, too.
I can't explain why but I love the sound of my Ridgid Jointer. It has the most quietly balanced hum of any power tool I've used since a 25 year old Powermatic Table saw long gone. Since the little jointer only cost $350 I was shocked upon turning it on the first time. Sometimes I turn it on just to listen. I was expecting a rough beast and found excellence.
That would be the 6 1/8" job? Have you ever had to replace your blades yet?
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