I'd have been exhausted just making up that list! I should have mentioned that I retired due to a heart attack and energy is a premium commodity these days. Ergo, I save it for something that I feel is something that will give me creative satisfaction . . . or something like that.
FoggyTown Most of my projects' best features began as mistakes.
design somewhat so that it provides pressure from four directions instead of (unless I missed something) two. But if you have already thought of that and dismissed it for some reason, I'll go with just the two.
FiggyTiwn Most of my projects' best features began as mistakes.
Like I tell my kids, boredom is a luxury! Load up your shop and bring it here help rebuild SE MN. We'd be happy to have you!
| Your drawer/box clamp looks interesting. I'd like to work on the | design somewhat so that it provides pressure from four directions | instead of (unless I missed something) two. But if you have already | thought of that and dismissed it for some reason, I'll go with just | the two.
NO! Four directions would definitely be an improvement for some glue-ups. Go with your instinct. The reason I put the pictures there was to provide a _starting_ point - *not* an _end_ point.
Please send/post photos!
-- Morris Dovey DeSoto Solar DeSoto, Iowa USA
Oh yeah. Having cleaned my clock early on from a wily piece of mesquite trying to makes its escape from the menacing bowl gouge, I always wear a faceshield.
I was wearing goggles, and it hit on just over the top of my goggles (the piece actually broke) just above my eyes. No stitches needed.
I have shot pieces of wood into the sheetrock of the garage, and had many a piece fly off and bounce out into the driveway, and since they are spinning around 2500+rpm, they spin and bounce across the street and into the neighbors yard.
I punish all attempts to escape. When the escapee is recovered, he is usually thrown in the box of wood for the smoker for a fiery death.
Robert
are art. My mistakes are junk.
Awww, now Frank.... come on....
You never had a shelf turn out to be a cutting board in the end? You never had a small chest wind up with a couple of less drawers, or maybe the end result a little smaller because of a setting you misfired when setting up your saw or jigs?
Do you have any idea how many small flower vases are turned into Christmas ornaments on a lathe every day? Or how many bed post finials are turned into mallets, or baseball bat blanks that are turned into chopsticks? More than anyone would admit.
I don't believe an engineer would give up on a project that didn't meet the original specs - I thought you guys called those things field design modifications! ;^)
Robert
" snipped-for-privacy@aol.com" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com:
*snip*
A misteak becomes a design decision when you document it. :-)
Puckdropper
Tue, Sep 4, 2007, 7:02am (EDT-3) snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (FoggyTown) doth burble: Yeah, yeah. We know. You're just so bloody marvellous!
LMAO You need to make some skyhooks for some kids, or sumpthin.
JOAT What is life without challenge and a constant stream of new humiliations?
- Peter Egan
are art. My mistakes are junk.
Sure, but those are brand new projects. I intended for them to end up that way :~).
Frank
LOL! Absolutely.
"That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!":
Robert
He could learn to play the bagpipes or saxophone, for instance. A few days of that and the muse should return with a vengeance, never to depart!
Bill
snipped-for-privacy@aol.com wrote: That's the fun of it as there really
What about "Keep the nose of the skew out of the wood."?
;-)
Bill
(Who just turned 10 spoons this week 'cause he didn't feel like turning a slab of box elder into the shallow bowl he originally had in mind when he cut the log.)
Some of the best chopsticks / hairsticks on the planet are made from ash, I'll have you know!
Bill
Nyet! Nein (sp?). Non. (french?), "horizontal squigley line with two dots above the right end of the squigly line". Uh-uh - Bubba. (Bushistic) Fraid not old chum (English). Oh HELL no! (rap). Farkin' roo shit! (Oz) Blarny (Irish).
(Qualifier: Keep the nose of the skew out of the uphill side of a cut. Downhill works just fine, especially acrossed end grain)
Though the illustrations on this page are for a single bevel chisel or an actual bedan, the cuts are the same, starting the cut with either the down side corner of the chisel or the long point of a skew chisel.
It seems that everything you think you SHOULDN'T DO with a skew is actuall what you should do. And, conversely, what you think you SHOULD DO with a skew - you shouldn't. Maybe because it doesn't look like a gouge it developed a contrarian attitude. Could be the reason I like the tool so much.
charlie b
Snip-eroo
Hey.... I mastered those spiral cuts just about the first time I used the skew. I can do them just about anytime without warning now. They are the most reliable cut I make with the skew!
I can use the skew to plane, use it (end of the long point dropping in at about 1:00) to cut beads, grooves and coves, but that's about it. I use my Christmas ornament turning time to practice some with the skew.
But we aren't friends, and I wish we were. I like the "cut smooth" finish the skew leaves. Ahhh.... but control.... I just can't get it. So I wind up going back to my custom ground spindle gouges and even my stumpy little three point tool to do the things I should be doing with the skew. It simply takes too much time for me to do things with it.
And then of all the stupid things to do I watched one of Raffan's videos on using the skew, and that sombitch uses the same skew to rough out the bark off a log as he does to shave the end fibers on a chuck held piece of hardwood. He can make shavings like I do with a bowl gouge, or tiny little corkscrews like the ones that come off my spiral cut coffee grinder.
On a good day I can detail with the skew, but I haven't ever had anywhere near the confidence it takes to face off the end grain of a
6" diameter piece of hardwood.Robert
At the very least, anyone living in the same house would start encouraging him to get back out in the garage...
"Those who live by the skew, die by the skew ..."
Or something like that.
My first few cuts with a skew were anything but controlled ... but now it is my favorite tool for most cuts.
When I was turning a spoon the other day I got a spiral cut on a decorative finial end. No problem ... I hand-carved it deeper and colored it in. ;-)
Bill
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