Starrett

and another hour bragging about it and responding to congrats...

dave

Unisaw A100 wrote:

lest I start a flame war, let me add the :) now.

there. relax, Keeter

dave

Bay Area Dave wrote:

Only took a minute or few to *brag* about it Davey.

Though I did forget to mention the years of enjoyment my daughter will have with the Starretts when she inherits them.

So far no congrats. Did get one response from a guy with some pretty big sour grapes though. I mean, they were huge.

UA100

hell, those sour grapes aren't coming from me! I just had to say SOMETHING to get you to respond! You didn't weigh in on either of the two "plan" threads so I thought I'd draw you out of your shell in this one. How the hell are you? :)

dave

Unisaw A100 wrote:

But it will never be complete!

Hey Duke, I have a few of those thing also. Last summer I picked up a Starret Planer Gage for use in setting up the shaper.

The Plans are finished and construction starts in the spring of 2004.

are the preparations for the hunt refined and genteel like an English fox hunt. ...

Or do you get a maniacal gleem in you eyes, turn to your dimwitted rodent lackey and say, "Pinky, are you pondering what I am pondering?"

David

remove the key to email me.

I thought they were kinda trollish and didn't quite feel up to the task.

Tired. We're five months into 56 hour weeks. So many projects, so little time.

UA100

rubs eyes...

Gerald, that you?

So where the hell have you been all these live long days?

UA100

If we knit two bobby socks together we can make a diaper for a kangaroo?

Now you understand why I didn't just go out and plunk down $50 on a brand new one? 'Sides, this one has a *user's mark*. Can't get that from Ann "Action Jackson" Rockler..

Once upon a time it involved the donning of the Carhartt shirt (a 10ish oz. cotton, color (colour David) green, catalog no. S09ASP) and a handful of Jolly Ranchers in the cup holder of the Jeep (top down dependent on the season). Check for glasses, the good ones for seeing close up, the MagLite (small one/fits in pocket). A quick visit to MapQuest to insure no additional time was spent wandering and then it was up and onward. These days the hunt is few and far between and more designed for results as time is fleeting.

There was once an imaginary friend I used to take with me named Billy (age 10). I was teaching him the ways. His imaginary parents had an imaginary restraining order issued against me so I guess there was a wee bit of Pinky going on.

OBWW: The Carhartt was bought at Highland Hardware. This was the visit when I met His Royness and he autographed my Galoot cap. That was the same day I met His Normness and the same day he autographed my Galoot cap.

UA100

"Yes, but how will we get all of the original tooling for the first Delta factory in the back of the Jeep?"

Yup, that's me. I've been working on the plans for a great big woodworking project. poke your browser over to the following URL's and have a peek. As you can see in the views from the South and East, I took your advice and incorporated an entrance to the basement directly from the great outdoors.

A view from the North:

Next week I will mill the pieces of the balustrade on the porches. Then, I have to order the stock for the doors and jambs. That should keep me busy until next spring, when I am going to load all the pieces of the project into a container for shipment to the construction site in early summer.

Just like everything else that's big. In pieces.

UA100

I'm only $150,000 away from having a shop entrance from the garage. That figure also gets me lumber storage and a finish room and increases the present day 650sf shop/150sf wooddorking Leebrary to a more agreeable (to me)

sigh...

Funny how sometimes you can understand things by working the concept through your head and other things you know onna 'count of you've been there, done that but didn't get to lick the bowl afterwards.

From where to where?

UA100

From Sunny Southern California to Eastern Washington State.

On 24 Aug 2003 22:39:06 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@aol.comkey (J Pagona aka Y.B.) Crawled out of the shop and said. . .:

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"Yes, but where can we get 10,000 feet of rope and a 55 gallon capacity blender"