Hey, there's a new site out there called Rules of Thumb (http://
Best one is to still have two..
mac
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Keep rules (especially metal ones) and thumbs away from the sharp spinny things.
:-)
jc
Many years ago I had two weeks of marine firefighter training at Texas A&M. When we studied BLEVE's, (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosions) he told us a good rule of thumb about such fires. "Hold your thumb up at arms length and close one eye. When you can hide the entire event behind your thumb, you are far enough away."
DonkeyHody "There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right things."
That works well for telling your wife that you just bought a new tool also. ;~)
Makes sense to me.. could be applied to manual labor, also..
mac
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Unless she's a good shot..
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Woodworking Rules of Thumb
Rule #1 Keep your thumb(s) and other parts of your body safely away from sharp things, spinning or not.
Rule #2
If in doubt, refer to Rule #1.
Lew
Yeah, there is that. LOL
Is he a neighbor down there in Baja?
Keep your thumbs on the outside of any piece you're resawing with the bandsaw, just as if you were bricking a camel.
Flashing on Lyudmila Pavlichenko.
Being from Texas I practically grew up with a gun in my hands. She on the other hand does not even want to look at one. Her looks could kill though. ;~)
Ok, you just caused a loop, you fix it. ;~)
No no no. That's not rule #1. The first rule of thumb I learned was:
Do not hit a thumb nail with the same force as you would use to hit a wood nail.
Nope, he stands around at the cantina looking for odd jobs.. He did a great job on our patio pavers.....*g*
mac
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Basic law of nature is that we have thumbs and cats don't.. That's why they have US open doors for them..
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fthumb.org/) that centralizes common and uncommon sense on
Nahh, that's just exercising dominance over the lesser race. Cats are quite capable of opening their own doors.
As the old saying goes, dogs think they're human, cats think they're gods :-).
Saw a neat rule today - Never play leapfrog with a unicorn :-).
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