Hey Dave I just looked on google for bike shops in you area, you have an REI there, good place for a new bike. Their service is very good. Also I looked up a couple of the higher rated small shops...
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Hey Dave I just looked on google for bike shops in you area, you have an REI there, good place for a new bike. Their service is very good. Also I looked up a couple of the higher rated small shops...
Take your Fuji to that good bike shop, ask them if they can get it to your liking or.... take the Fuji and ask to trade it in for a hybrid the bike.... good local bike shops are ther more to help...
Thank you Guys...... I am thinking of just putting out a Old Jewelers saw I have and a older Millers-Falls Coping saw along with an Old Stanley Block plane and a LN 102 and ask if someone wants to...
Hi Everyone, I have been thinking about Fret Saws and have read here and other places about how people really like your high end Fret Saws. I cant understand the difference between a $100 saw and a...
Apprenticeships are rare now in the machining trades now...... again economic. So I believe people are just shown how to do the job and if they do well they will get a chance to do the next task that...
You are sure right about this Brian....... I learn so much from the internet! For example, Your blog is awesome, when it comes to working wood I could not even hold the hem of your royal Kimono. And...
As an old toolmaker...... A surgical instrument maker/R&D machinist. I have done R&D for 45 years, In the last 20 years I have worked in a University setting. I was asked to train a replacement, So...
Absolutely! A question I ask professors who ask me for a super fine finish or micron tolerance is how will you know if I do make that to your spec? I have never had them give me a good answer.... How...
As to the Adam question...... I really miss him and hope he returns soon. I got to sit in on some of his lectures at the Pasadena WWA a few years back and he is awesome. As for PWW, I miss Bob and...
Well Bill Walsh did win three super bowls.... those other guys I've never heard about.......:)
Hey Megan,
I think you are doing fine and you guys are turning the ship around....... No one can loose that many good sailors and not veer off course. Why they left?...... don't matter.......
The hook tool looks like a o-ring tool. Just a guess
That's it...... I'm jumping around while I'm woodworking!!!
Very nice Post Derek. I would like to try to tell you what I see, I see most of us here are Hobbyists and a good number are good enough to even earn some money doing our hobby. We have a very nice...
248196 VS. 248197
Both are good......... who do you want to model your art after? Kind of like whats going on here eh?
When I was a young Tool and Die apprentice, I asked questions and got as...
And speaking of of YOU being invigorated, I hope you are well sir, and thank you for adding to my skill and knowledge. -matt
Hey give us some time...... We complain about one...
Hey give us some time...... We complain about one thing at a time.... You are probably next David . :) :)
A gauntlet??? Your glove, your challenge....... Ha you have made an age old mistake, my lady......You have over estimated your foe (whom is no Foe) I am not a worker of wood..... I am here to seek...
This is exactly why I said George Wilson-ish, I think you are spot on about the"magazine personality" and about the cliquishness ( see I could never hack it as a editor doing stuff like this) I have...
I think Pat has done all involved a great favor! He has made the case that we really are not too happy with woodworking magazines as a whole, and he has started the conversation about what do we...
OK guys..... I just can't hold this back any longer....... Where I come from we don't keep the chips, we keep the part we are working on.
Not to offend anyone here, but to even consider that your...
If I were to make such a fine cabinet.... I would consider myself to be ....... ahem...... Studley.:D
Exactly...... But there is more. When the ice is broken the benifits flow both ways. I want an old machinist to tell the kid :here is how to make that part better and cheaper"....
I want that kid to...
Hi Curtis, Hope the paper goes well. For years I taught a machine shop courseto PHD students so they could work in the shop to construct projects. What agreat job that was,
Young men and women from...
I too recommend the Chris Pye DVD's. I think I have almost everybody's DVD's
but Chris Pyes' are exceptional as he has Rob Cosman as his foil and that really makes a big difference to me. Cosman...