Went for a test ride on freshened up Norton Commando today
Bored Room
Went for a test ride on freshened up Norton Commando today
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
No8 Wire Extraordinaire
A day off for. . Well whatever this holiday is. . Lazy start. Short week. Same money.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
one placenta
...I have a couple of workshops, one kind of doubles as a museum of sorts and also houses my bikes so fine or coarse or any wood shavings, sawdust, sanding dust etc are a pain and I'm sick of moving stuff, and dust sheets, when I have bigger stuff to do or having to wait until a nice day arrives so I can do it outside...I have a workshop for metalwork and mechanical stuff...now I have a place where all my bigger tools can live, buzzer, thicknesser, two or three tablesaws...I gain three or four squares of floor space in the other workshops and never have to worry about dust and shit going everywhere again...Originally Posted by Ocean1
...as far as a wood working table goes, suffice it to say it won't look like any of these pretty things...but they are all specific to woodwork...
https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=wo...7dnOjqZpJVfgM:
Bogeyman
Fair enough. Some of them do look the part though.
On the other hand I know a lot of guys that spend fookin hours making shit like that, and you see bugger all actual work resulting from all the flash toys.
On the other, other hand there's these couple of overachieving pricks that do both. Arseholes.
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
one placenta
...I have seen some of the most beautifully finished wooden objects be they structural or decorative done by part timer/DIY types, always for their own use. Some have astounded me with their woodworking detail...they don't do it for their livelihood all their lives though...mine took an hour to knock up from shit 4x2 I had to hand and an 18 mm cover sheet of mdf...solid and fucking nearly level, ready to go...
Bogeyman
Meh, the only way I can make wooden shit is with engineering tools. I have routers, but every time I use them they dig fucking big trenches where I don't want them. So I use the mill.
That's probably not quite true, but it's fucking contrary shit at the best of times. And you can't weld up your fuckups and pretend they never happened...
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
one placenta
http://waneyedgeworkshop.com/2015/07...joinery-bench/
...like this craftsman says, he can't really use it...I couldn't either if I'd put that much time into something...bit silly really, but very lovely...
Forum whore
faaark that is luverly, wouldn't want to damage it would be the problem and i don't hand cut dovetails anyway, thats what a dovetailer is for
Slightly Hardcore Biker
Ha! pva and sawdust fixed just as many fuckups!
High miles, engine knock, rusty chrome, worn pegs...
Brakes as new
Bored Room
I knocked up a workbench today using a bit of 2 meter by 50mm old Post Office Kauri counter top I inherited from the FIL many years ago.
Now got my compressor and tool trolley under it and a nice view out the window to the unmowed lawn.....
Kauri is hard on Chinese nails ( apologies to you woodworker bods out there.)
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
one placenta
...don't worry about it...I've built retaining walls from 10x4 Kauri beams and recently used some 10x2 Totara, for capping a raised garden so we could sit down and admire the garlic and onion and carrots...it's like everything, it's only rare if you don't have lots...
Bogeyman
I have a small pile of stuff taken from large Indonesian packaging crates, made from indiscriminately milled rain forest. I only collected the better looking stuff, and there's not much left, I've given most of it away over the years.
A naval architect mate who's a treewood expert identified most of it, Teak, Mahogany and Indonesian analogs of rosewood and Hickory. The rosewood is spectacular, variegated peach and banana colours, smells magnificent.
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
The Majestic Metal Wizard
I'll just leave this here:
Why do some people have everything and some people have none - Pareto Distribution!
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
Just faidin away!
Life isn't fair? - why do 2% of 2% of the population control the world? - would we be any more cheerful if we "all" knew the answer?
Pareto principal explained: https://betterexplained.com/articles...the-8020-rule/
The Majestic Metal Wizard
The same reason that only 2% of the 2% become All Blacks.
Interesting article - but it does a disservice by deriding it as merely an observation - when Pareto distributions have been observed across multiple separate domains:
Most have none, some have some and few have lots.
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
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