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Thread: What's your favorite woodworking sound, tool, task, thing, sight, smell, etc.

  1. #31
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    Love the smell of 100+ year old heart pine.

    I also like the sound of a no.7 taking a long shaving.

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    I like the sound of a well tuned rip saw cutting hardwood in full stokes. You can hear the tone change in the plate. A little like running your hand down the keyboard of a piano. If you have one tooth out of set you can hear and feel it just like a piano the plate just vibrates differently and disturbes the atmosphere.
    Jim

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    There should be a Like button for this thread

    For me it is the sound of a sharp handplane going "SSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK! along a panel, with the sight of a long, straight shaving flowing behind .....



    Regards from Perth

    Derek

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    Quote Originally Posted by mark mcfarlane View Post
    For me its probably sitting in a freshly cleaned shop with a cup of coffee contemplating whatever I will do next.
    Shouldn't that read... "For me its probably sitting in a freshly cleaned shop with a cup of coffee contemplating whatever mess I will make next..."
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    The most expensive tool is the one you buy "cheaply" and often...

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    Definitely it is the sight of a cabinet door or drawer with an even reveal on all sides...as planned, not by accident. Even a perfect handcut dovetail joint doesn't trump that.

    Simon

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    As a retiree, for me it is the sound of a cap popping off a micro brew after a fun day in the shop!

    Am I the only one? Must be my German (plus a little Scotch and Irish) heritage...
    Too much to do...Not enough time...life is too short!

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    The smell of saw dust, the sound of a hand plane, and the lamentations of the women. (Sorry Conan)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill Space View Post
    As a retiree, for me it is the sound of a cap popping off a micro brew after a fun day in the shop!

    Am I the only one? Must be my German (plus a little Scotch and Irish) heritage...
    Or that little 'erk' of the cork coming out of a bourbon bottle...

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    Unclamping a good glue-up.

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    The sound of my unisaw bullet motor starting up, Most satisfying is glueing up a raised panel door and finding that its perfectly square

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    For me it begins and ends with anything I can cut on my bandsaw,just love using that machine.

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    My favorite thing is feeding a rough-sawn board into the planer and seeing the color and grain of the planed wood coming out the other side. And the smell of the freshly-planed wood.

    Second would be chucking up a chunk of green wood on the lathe and getting a shop full of long curly shavings off that green bowl blank. Especially something like black birch - the smell is amazing.
    Jon Endres
    Killing Trees Since 1983

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    Two fav aromas: Johnson's Paste Wax and Shellac freshly cut with DNA.

    Fav woodworking result: an excellent match of grain wrapping around amplifier chassis' corner miters after the finish is first applied.

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    The hum of the bandsaw starting up is always pretty cool to me. On the flipside, the awful racket that the guides make is the worst.

    Oh and I love the smell of cedar. I love handplaning cedar. I love the feel of freshly planed cedar. I guess I just love working with cedar.

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    For me it's applying that first coat of whatever finish I'm using and seeing the true colors of the wood reveal. I love seeing that change that happen. That followed by the smell of saw dust and a cold one.

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