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Posted: 4/24/2023 7:15:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SecretSquirell: And furniture builders. The city of Gardner next door to me was once the wooden chair capital of the world. We had 7 or 8 factories that operated 24 hours a day. Temple Stuart, S.Bent, Heywood Wakefield etc. etc. I had lots of relatives who worked there. Including one cousin who worked in the bending room. He is the one that got me most of the beech I use from the company dumpsters.(over 25 years ago. I've been saving it for now) Now it's all sent off to China and they are all gone. |
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Posted: 4/24/2023 7:33:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MrSig239: Latest project hot off the lathe. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56211/IMG_4613_JPG-2794422.JPG thats cool |
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Posted: 4/24/2023 9:44:47 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By MrSig239: Latest project hot off the lathe. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56211/IMG_4613_JPG-2794422.JPG That one's cool! It looks like a cloth sack |
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Posted: 4/24/2023 11:05:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SecretSquirell: Sy, you got this book? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/204916/facts-2-1-2793143.jpg |
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Posted: 4/24/2023 11:15:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MrSig239: The city of Gardner next door to me was once the wooden chair capital of the world. We had 7 or 8 factories that operated 24 hours a day. Temple Stuart, S.Bent, Heywood Wakefield etc. etc. I had lots of relatives who worked there. Including one cousin who worked in the bending room. He is the one that got me most of the beech I use from the company dumpsters.(over 25 years ago. I've been saving it for now) Now it's all sent off to China and they are all gone. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MrSig239: Originally Posted By SecretSquirell: And furniture builders. The city of Gardner next door to me was once the wooden chair capital of the world. We had 7 or 8 factories that operated 24 hours a day. Temple Stuart, S.Bent, Heywood Wakefield etc. etc. I had lots of relatives who worked there. Including one cousin who worked in the bending room. He is the one that got me most of the beech I use from the company dumpsters.(over 25 years ago. I've been saving it for now) Now it's all sent off to China and they are all gone. But it is a toss up for me between acoustic stringed instrument builders and roofers.  |
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Posted: 4/24/2023 11:22:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SecretSquirell: And furniture builders. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SecretSquirell: Originally Posted By rbb2: Originally Posted By SecretSquirell: You can steam them too if you're working with dry wood. I think boat builders do that? And furniture builders. I had to do a lot of it when I worked for Brammer (Custom Cabinets) in the 70's. I really enjoyed it. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 12:35:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WIC: https://i.imgur.com/VPe4XyS.jpg That's different, very portable |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 12:36:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MrSig239: Carry knife for this week. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56211/IMG_4597_JPG-2793841.JPG The weekly rotation is interesting |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 12:36:50 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/25/2023 12:37:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SecretSquirell: Sy, you got this book? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/204916/facts-2-1-2793143.jpg Kinda cool |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 12:38:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MrSig239: Cool book! Mine are multiplying...Trying some bending stuff lately. The one on the right is the latest. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56211/IMG_4586_JPG-2794419.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56211/IMG_4601_JPG-2794420.JPG Popular with the stash box crowd? |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 12:55:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sywagon: Arg, fuck China. But it is a toss up for me between acoustic stringed instrument builders and roofers. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/do5P6e3ALR4/maxresdefault.jpg That’s a great looking roof. Very unique, but jeez could you imagine the cost to reroof that in the United States? My guess $80-100k. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 12:58:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WILSON: I had to do a lot of it when I worked for Brammer (Custom Cabinets) in the 70's. I really enjoyed it. I made some skateboard decks in high school wood shop. I steamed the laminates before flying them in my jig. I think stair handrails (the nice ones at least) are still steamed to form the curves. Most homes now with curved handrails are just cut to shape. ETA Hi Wilson! Click To View Spoiler |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 12:59:44 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Star_Scream: Popular with the stash box crowd? Not in the least bit airtight. MrSigs home is gonna stink like a treehouse in Bellingham. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 1:34:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MrSig239: They spit water at you while there turning. Here is the first jig. Didn't bend it enough. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56211/IMG_4596_JPG-2794491.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56211/IMG_4580_JPG-2794493.JPG That's pretty cool. Does your area have like a swap meet or flea market you could sell wares at? |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 4:33:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Star_Scream: That's pretty cool. Does your area have like a swap meet or flea market you could sell wares at? Yes. There is a flea market every Sunday a few towns over in the summer. Place is 20 or so acres and rents tables out. Usually has a pretty good turn out. I haven't been in years but will be checking it out this weekend. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 10:26:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MrSig239: The city of Gardner next door to me was once the wooden chair capital of the world. We had 7 or 8 factories that operated 24 hours a day. Temple Stuart, S.Bent, Heywood Wakefield etc. etc. I had lots of relatives who worked there. Including one cousin who worked in the bending room. He is the one that got me most of the beech I use from the company dumpsters.(over 25 years ago. I've been saving it for now) Now it's all sent off to China and they are all gone. So you have a legacy stash of materials? |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 10:27:30 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DFARM: That one's cool! It looks like a cloth sack Yeah, it's definitely something. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 11:27:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By rbb2: Is the salad just in a "corner" of one big bowl with the meat and gravy? So strange. It was a bar, not the Hilton. Lucky I got any salad at all. It was good. Rice sucked. Irish don’t know how to cook rice, unless it is for wort. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 11:28:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By rbb2: I think boat builders do that? I did that in boy scouts to make snowshoes. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 11:29:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WILSON: I had to do a lot of it when I worked for Brammer (Custom Cabinets) in the 70's. I really enjoyed it. Who keeps letting this guy in? He doesn’t even own knives. And, Illinois. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 11:30:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 80085: I made some skateboard decks in high school wood shop. I steamed the laminates before flying them in my jig. I think stair handrails (the nice ones at least) are still steamed to form the curves. Most homes now with curved handrails are just cut to shape. ETA Hi Wilson! Click To View Spoiler Right? Never trust management. Learned that from my employees. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 12:11:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sywagon: Arg, fuck China. But it is a toss up for me between acoustic stringed instrument builders and roofers. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/do5P6e3ALR4/maxresdefault.jpg That's quite the roof. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 1:34:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Star_Scream: So you have a legacy stash of materials? A relative owned a big upholstery shop from the 1950’s until their death and dissolution of the company in the early 2000’s. There were many “new” fabric and textile spools from the 1940’s and later that were found when selling off the inventory. I’ve always wondered if things like micarta are just stored away for decades until someone with motivation comes across it, similar to the case above. Seems like it. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 3:38:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WIC: Who keeps letting this guy in? He doesn’t even own knives. And, Illinois. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WIC: Originally Posted By WILSON: I had to do a lot of it when I worked for Brammer (Custom Cabinets) in the 70's. I really enjoyed it. Who keeps letting this guy in? He doesn’t even own knives. And, Illinois. I think I own between three and four thousand knives, @WIC.  Just none that cost more than $500. 
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Posted: 4/25/2023 4:14:12 PM EDT
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I have some knives that cost less than $30 that I love.
Price doesnt matter. Love of the hobby does. Post pics or yer lyin. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 4:14:38 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/25/2023 4:18:07 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/25/2023 5:26:54 PM EDT
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Still no knife
I have seen some, but kinda lost interest after I realized we checked our luggage and could have brought my own. On the other hand, really noticing not having one. An SAK would have been handy. 
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Posted: 4/25/2023 6:18:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WIC: https://i.imgur.com/mstva2F.jpg https://i.imgur.com/oWnvOBA.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ao5csju.jpg Your spouse colors outside the lines. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 6:22:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WIC: I have some knives that cost less than $30 that I love. Price doesnt matter. Love of the hobby does. Post pics or yer lyin. Or a less abrasive way to reply might be: Oh hey, that’s great! I love knives too! It’d be neat if you could share some pictures of your knives with the group because we’d be interested in seeing what you have - as long as it isn’t bitchmade. Since we’re both knife nerds and live near each other maybe we could even meet up and touch each others’ steel. I’ll bring the crab meat if you have the paper plates. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 6:25:44 PM EDT
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Fuck nice
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Posted: 4/25/2023 6:26:40 PM EDT
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Especially your description of nice
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Posted: 4/25/2023 6:32:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/25/2023 6:35:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 80085: Your spouse colors outside the lines. That’s how she ended up with me and her mother telling her I am the anti-Christ with a multi page legal pad list of all the things wrong with me under her arm while I stood there grinning |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 6:50:19 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By WIC: Still no knife I have seen some, but kinda lost interest after I realized we checked our luggage and could have brought my own. On the other hand, really noticing not having one. An SAK would have been handy. https://i.imgur.com/yy65qpS.jpg Steal a steak knife |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 6:55:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 80085: Your spouse colors outside the lines. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 80085: Your spouse colors outside the lines. It's actually him that cant color inside the lines. He just swapped placemats with her for the picture. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 7:16:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 80085: That's a great looking roof. Very unique, but jeez could you imagine the cost to reroof that in the United States? My guess $80-100k. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 80085: Originally Posted By sywagon: Arg, fuck China. But it is a toss up for me between acoustic stringed instrument builders and roofers. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/do5P6e3ALR4/maxresdefault.jpg That's a great looking roof. Very unique, but jeez could you imagine the cost to reroof that in the United States? My guess $80-100k. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 7:23:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DFARM: Steal a steak knife I thought about that but I don’t have any cardboard for a sheath |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 7:28:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WIC: I thought about that but I don’t have any cardboard for a sheath Use cheese. 
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Posted: 4/25/2023 7:32:47 PM EDT
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Too soft or too hard here. No in between.
Also, makes your pocket smell. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 8:16:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/25/2023 8:29:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WIC: I thought about that but I don’t have any cardboard for a sheath Coasters, Bud. Coasters. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 9:31:37 PM EDT
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Use Bud light coasters.
Tell people your knife identifies as a wrench, sorry I mean spanner. Problem solved. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 9:36:13 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By WIC: I thought about that but I don’t have any cardboard for a sheath Beer cases, cereal boxes, there's stuff everywhere. You can probably find a suitable box near the dumpster/trash behind the hotel or outside a store or something. I get the feeling that you aren't super committed to my idea. Lol Looks like a fun trip! |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 10:25:43 PM EDT
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More adventures in N/A beer....
 Attached FileThis stuff is pretty legit. It's not overly hoppy and it doesn't have any of the regular N/A beer funk like I remember from odools and the like. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 10:58:04 PM EDT
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I’ve seen Guinness 0.0 at the bars, and the Heineken equivalent. Haven’t tried them yet, but curious.
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Posted: 4/25/2023 11:01:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GingerShanks: Coasters, Bud. Coasters. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GingerShanks: Coasters, Bud. Coasters. Originally Posted By MaxxII: Use Bud light coasters. Tell people your knife identifies as a wrench, sorry I mean spanner. Problem solved. Coasters break, they don’t bend. |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 11:03:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DFARM: Beer cases, cereal boxes, there's stuff everywhere. You can probably find a suitable box near the dumpster/trash behind the hotel or outside a store or something. I get the feeling that you aren't super committed to my idea. Lol Looks like a fun trip! Maybe. Where do I get tape for the box? Or is it like origami where I just have to fold it a certain way? |
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Posted: 4/25/2023 11:18:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WIC: Coasters break, they don’t bend. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WIC: Originally Posted By GingerShanks: Coasters, Bud. Coasters. Originally Posted By MaxxII: Use Bud light coasters. Tell people your knife identifies as a wrench, sorry I mean spanner. Problem solved. Coasters break, they don’t bend. Excuses. |
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