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Post by mrgrimsdale on Oct 24, 2008 13:08:47 GMT
Bin over there again (I know I know  ) summink to do while I have a cup of tea! He wants to plane some B&Q rubbish softwood for a project. The advice he's getting is to plane some other wood - which kinda misses the point IMHO ;D He's also advised that it could be bad for his planes! Different priorities obviously - he wants to plane some wood, they want to play with planes ;D ;D Personally I'd say rubbish softwood would be one of the best materials for getting your hand in with a plane - relatively easy but with a few testing problems, and cheap so you needn't worry too much about spoiling it. cheers Jacob |
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Post by engineerone on Oct 24, 2008 13:28:42 GMT
jacob you must stop this habit of glooming over there ;D i do agree though that if you ask a question the answer you get should not be don't do it that way harry enfield where are you when needed ;D mind you it is a good way to learn about your cheap plane.  paul  |
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Post by smudger on Oct 24, 2008 14:24:04 GMT
I bought some t&g flooring in France - 11m board length, €7.90. Good price, ropey quality, until planed up. Didn't hurt the planes, and OK for my kind of woodwork (making country-style bookshelves for a holiday home).
There's too much tool fairy sometimes. And making people who can't do really good stuff feel a bit inadequate. I'd love to do engineering-quality cabinet cabinet making, but I can't. As a result I feel very inhibited about talking about what I do make.
edit - soddit, I'll post that over there.
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Post by mrgrimsdale on Oct 24, 2008 15:13:47 GMT
ooh careful you don't want to get too au contraire, you'll get banned ;D ;D
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Post by smudger on Oct 24, 2008 17:49:21 GMT
I thought I was going to get banned last night...
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Post by jfc on Oct 24, 2008 18:50:48 GMT
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Post by mrgrimsdale on Oct 24, 2008 19:09:19 GMT
Obvious innit? Nice shiny plane, nasty rough wood. |
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Post by jfc on Oct 24, 2008 19:42:16 GMT
;D But thats what a plane is for |
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Post by smudger on Oct 24, 2008 19:48:46 GMT
How naive can you get?
A plane is a shiny thing that goes on a shelf (often in a sock) and is only taken out once a week for a nice massage with camellia oil, or possibly ambergris. At Christmas it is anointed with myrrh.
The sole is lapped to within an inch of its life, the cutter is honed, bevelled, back bevelled and polished before being sharpened and bevelled again. The handles are made of sapient pearwood and the body cast in solid poundnotium.
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Post by paulchapman on Oct 24, 2008 19:52:26 GMT
;D
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Post by jfc on Oct 24, 2008 20:01:51 GMT
So using one to knock in a pin when you cant reach your hammer is a big no no then ;D
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Post by sainty on Oct 24, 2008 20:11:32 GMT
So using one to knock in a pin when you cant reach your hammer is a big no no then ;D Unless I'm very much mistaken, the stanley No.4 can be used to drive 4" nails, the No.5 for 5" etc. If you want to use ring shanks, you need the "1/2" version, i.e. the Stanley No. 4 1/2 for 4" ring shanks. rgds Stu |
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Post by andy king on Oct 24, 2008 20:33:33 GMT
That has to be a wind up! According to what he's posted, he's trying to 'flatten' a piece of batten - 3ft long, 1 1/2 x 3/4, using a try plane, a jack plane and a scrub plane! Dunno where the scrub plane fits in here, let alone a try - the jack would sort it on its own if he's that desperate... I really must stop planing knotty pine if it plays havoc with planes though - You learn something new every day! ;D |
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Post by smudger on Oct 24, 2008 20:51:01 GMT
So using one to knock in a pin when you cant reach your hammer is a big no no then ;D As a result of this post four members of the Hand Tools Forum™ have been rushed to hospital in a state of anaplaneastic shock. Please take care that all such posts are, in the future, preceded by a warning that Tool Fairies might find them distressing. |
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Post by mrgrimsdale on Oct 24, 2008 21:04:14 GMT
What made me laugh was the advice to use a different wood. It's a bit like that Irish joke (sorry Irish people everywhere) where someone stops to ask the way and the old chap says "well sorr if I was setting off for Ballybunion I wouldn't start from here"
cheers
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Post by karl on Oct 24, 2008 21:11:38 GMT
Wasn't "The Chest" made from that in Terry Pratchett's first novel??? Cheers Karl |
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Post by engineerone on Oct 24, 2008 21:13:19 GMT
but jacob it isn't a joke, one time in dublin i asked for directions and was given the same answer as someone who has some of the modern "classics" i thought planes were universal, in that their job was to plane wood. any wood the only sensible answer is that some thinks all the resin in shed pine will gum up the works ;D paul |
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Post by smudger on Oct 24, 2008 21:15:49 GMT
Wasn't "The Chest" made from that in Terry Pratchett's first novel??? Cheers Karl The Luggage. An excellent little chap! |
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Post by jake on Oct 24, 2008 21:22:51 GMT
but jacob it isn't a joke, one time in dublin i asked for directions and was given the same answer I do love that straight-faced Irish piss-taking wit. |
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Post by mrgrimsdale on Oct 24, 2008 21:24:31 GMT
but jacob it isn't a joke, one time in dublin i asked for directions and was given the same answer snip Well they probably saw you coming ;D Misleading foreigners is an old tradition. We do the same in Derbyshire if there are strangers about - it's not malicious, it just makes us laugh. "Sorry me owd, weers that then I've never erd a Stoke Newington" etc cheers Jacob |
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Post by karl on Oct 24, 2008 21:35:07 GMT
That's the bugger. Think i'll go and dig the book out for another read... Cheers Karl |
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Post by Dave S on Oct 24, 2008 22:21:17 GMT
I thought I was going to get banned last night... ;D I wondered if you might just leave in disgust!! |
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Post by smudger on Oct 24, 2008 22:25:09 GMT
I'm getting pretty fed up with it, to be honest.
I didn't really have a problem with the place when you lot left. I don't think I'd been around enough to pick up the politics. But I'm seeing it now.
I think the best way Charlie can sort the place out is to shut down the general chat section.
My woodwork is halfway between a bodge and a car crash, but at least I do some. There are too many people over there who don't.
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Post by gazza on Oct 24, 2008 22:31:04 GMT
How naive can you get? A plane is a shiny thing that goes on a shelf (often in a sock) and is only taken out once a week for a nice massage with camellia oil, or possibly ambergris. At Christmas it is anointed with myrrh. The sole is lapped to within an inch of its life, the cutter is honed, bevelled, back bevelled and polished before being sharpened and bevelled again. The handles are made of sapient pearwood and the body cast in solid poundnotium. RATFLMAO ;D ;D ;D Oh Dick Smith you are a rascal !!! ;D ;D ;D Absolute classic !! Have your first karma on me. Edit (doesn't seem to be available at present) Cheers, Gazza. |
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Post by paulchapman on Oct 25, 2008 7:10:19 GMT
My woodwork is halfway between a bodge and a car crash You have a way with words, Dick ;D Cheers Paul |
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