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by Rasper
Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:48 pm
Forum: Welcome and Announcements
Topic: Registration Closed again
Replies: 22
Views: 137

Re: Registration Closed again

Someone clue me in. I fail to see the point of spam. Surely no one reads it, so why bother to post it? Unless, of course, you're insane. Insane people do insane things.

Richard
by Rasper
Fri Nov 24, 2023 3:15 pm
Forum: Welcome and Announcements
Topic: End of Summer...
Replies: 27
Views: 11931

Re: End of Summer...

Does that ring fit your finger?
It was made to fit a finger about 22 inches in diameter. Sometimes when I am trying to screw tiny nuts onto tiny bolts I think mine are that size.

Richard
by Rasper
Wed Nov 22, 2023 6:42 pm
Forum: Welcome and Announcements
Topic: End of Summer...
Replies: 27
Views: 11931

Re: End of Summer...

TOOL BUILDERS! Give it up. Come to your senses before it's too late. Building tools is a dangerous obsession. Worse than women and strong drink. I have to confess, I am a reformed tool-making junkie. Old age has helped. When you face the almost-empty top half of the hourglass, you start to ration yo...
by Rasper
Tue Oct 03, 2023 6:20 pm
Forum: The Pattern Shop
Topic: Patternmaking Spade/Paddle Bits
Replies: 15
Views: 5546

Re: Patternmaking Spade/Paddle Bits

Your tool-making puts mine to shame.

Richard
by Rasper
Tue Oct 03, 2023 6:15 pm
Forum: Beer and Spirits
Topic: I like beer
Replies: 5
Views: 4376

Re: I like beer

Me too.

R
by Rasper
Mon Oct 02, 2023 6:29 pm
Forum: The Pattern Shop
Topic: Patternmaking Spade/Paddle Bits
Replies: 15
Views: 5546

Re: Patternmaking Spade/Paddle Bits

That was what killed the boat yard business. My liability insurance in 1967 was 65 dollars a year. It would be more than that a day now. And OSHA wanted us to build handrails along the scaffolds we placed around hauled out boats to paint them. A scaffold consisted of some 2 x 12's on what we called ...
by Rasper
Mon Oct 02, 2023 5:15 pm
Forum: The Pattern Shop
Topic: Patternmaking Spade/Paddle Bits
Replies: 15
Views: 5546

Re: Patternmaking Spade/Paddle Bits

Fascinating stuff. Keep it coming, but only if you want to. When I had a big sculpture studio in California, I spent as much time making tools as i did making sculpture. I first acquired the habit back when i was in the wooden boat-building business. After the early 1960's you pretty much could no l...
by Rasper
Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:27 pm
Forum: Corner for the Creative
Topic: My Hand Planes
Replies: 34
Views: 8881

Re: My Hand Planes

I too loved to work with cherry. I used it a lot in boat work. I was something of a collector of various woods. I lived in the country, back when the land around the Chesapeake hadn't yet been damaged (destroyed) and turned into resorts by the developers. I combed the countryside for logs and trees:...
by Rasper
Tue Sep 26, 2023 4:46 pm
Forum: Square Peg
Topic: Visit to a nearby engine guy.
Replies: 3
Views: 3519

Re: Visit to a nearby engine guy.

Thank God such people still exist. Good work, Jerry.

Richard
by Rasper
Fri Sep 22, 2023 4:44 pm
Forum: Corner for the Creative
Topic: My Hand Planes
Replies: 34
Views: 8881

Re: My Hand Planes

Fantastic stuff. I am doubly appreciative, both for the beauty of your work, and as an old time wood boat builder, I have made and used similar planes. After using a wooden plane, a commercial steel faced plane feels like I'm using an ax. Being from Virginia, I had cherry and black locust available ...