I just had a silly thought, after reading a post in ABPW about a gloat: imagine Noah's first thoughts after deciding to build the Ark! If EVER there was a project that warranted the purchase of MORE TOOLS, that's got to be the granddaddy of 'em all. :)
Too bad L-V wasn't around back then...
Dave
'S all right. he asked on rec.woodworking, and got a flood of advice....
What good would the warranties be though?
LOl!
Dave
George wrote:
Quote from Noahm: "Now we'll just put in a couple hundred thousand wooden pegs to hold everything togethah until the glue dries..."
He must have had a hell of a time locating water-proof glue.
Dave
gw wrote:
"Well yes dear, I suppose I could do it with the jointer I already have, but a larger one will help counter-balance the elephants."
"If you needed a new jointer God would have given you one."
"If he didn't think I needed one he'd have made the elephants smaller. And .. Hey! That darn lion is napping on the Unisaw again. I hope you can swim you mangy fleabag!"
-Leuf
TWO of everything, though....
Even so, his first three construction attempts were abysmal failures. But, he perservered, and got everything right on the next attempt.
It was the original Ark "D" triumph.
Gorilla Glue??
Yuck! I flashed on the wood chipper scene in Fargo. Ground gorillas...
Dave
gw wrote:
Robert, now I know why my finished projects are full of "I should have done "x" differently". I don't make prototypes. (I'm too cheap and too slow to make 2 of everything).
Dave
Robert B> >
Anyone have a tape graduated in a sixteenth of a cubit?
We had a guy, here in CT, that ran his wife though a woodchipper about
20 years ago.I love you very mulch!
Barry
Will an 18th of a cubit do? It's between the middle knuckles of my little finger.
Dave in Fairfax
Really big push stick?
Aut inveniam viam aut faciam
On Fri, 06 May 2005 19:40:04 -0000, the inscrutable snipped-for-privacy@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) spake:
No, the original arc de triumph was the guy who wrapped his Bonnie around a telephone pole.
------------------------------------------------------ No matter how hard you try, you cannot baptize a cat. ----------------------------
Wasn't it cats that was used as pushrod?
Chuck
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