Thu, Jan 12, 2006, 4:06am (EST-3) (DonkeyHody)
doth scribbleth:
Thank you for your reasonably civil response.
Do you get your plywood for free? snip So something you buy especially
for the task may turn out to be cheaper in the long run.
Now I wouldn't dream of telling you your way is wrong. I'm just asking
you to be more tolerant of folks who have ideas different from yours.
snip

All my responses are reasonable. Just some are more reasonable
than others. LMAO

Matter of fact, I do get some of my plywood free. Doesn't
everyone? Try a motorcycle place, they often give their shipping crates
away. Or an appliance place. Can get some decent pieces of plywood at
times, and always some wood. Some is quite nice, some is ok, some is
only good for kindling. All free. I do buy, when I have the need.
But, even if I paid for the materials, I figure it'd be more than worth
the cost, for a case that would protect my saw, for years. To me,
that'd be more than worth the cost. I might even paint something like
that. I'm not cheap, but don't a lot of disposable income.

Sigh. I guess I'll need to explain it yet once again. I don't
tell people they have to do things my way. That's their choice. If
they want to buy something, rather than make it, fine, it's their money.
Me, I make any number of things I could well buy, even if I wind up
spending more money, because it's more fun that way, and I often learn
something doing it. I could bu all my wood to - if I wanted to. But,
it's fun to get some free wood somewhere, and make someting nice, or
useful, out of it. Right now, I'me figuring out how to make catches for
a gun case, and the hinges too. Sure, I could buy catches, and I've
already got hinges - but it's fun figuring out how to do it - and can
probably use both ideas on something else - if they work like I think
they will. The next cases will probably all have store-bought catches
and hinges. I'll still make the handles on all of 'em, as soon as I
figure out what I like. I'm willing to share the info, but if you want
to do it different, no prob.

Probably the main reason I post plans I find, is I was taught many
moons ago to communicate, share info. That was one of the first things
I learned in the Army. Help your buddy, because you'll want him to help
you. So I post plans. I'm sharing info. You want to use them, fine.
You want to killfile me, fine.

But, you want info, then post all the details you can. Don't just
you want to do this, or that. Ask a stupid question, then here you're
pretty much guranteed a stupid answer. And, if you check some of my
past posts, you'll see that most people have ideas diffeent from me -
even my kids.

As far as making a case for you saw, wouldn't even need plywood.
Except scraps. Just take some time, and could make one totally out of
scrap wood. Could get fancy with store-bought hinges, catch, and
handle. Or, leather hinges, or wooden, if you wanted to get fancy. Old
belt for a catch, or just ties it shut with rope. Rope hinge. If I was
gonna use scrap wood to make one, I'd take my time and do it up fancy,
just for the Hell of it. Major cost would be glue. Possibly be easiest
if you tongue and groove, but doable without. Actually, thinking about
it, I think I'd use dowels to hold it together. Blocks inside the case,
to protect against any hard knocks. But, if you don't want to do
something like that, up to you. If I was carrying around a bow saw
often, I probably would make something along those lines. But that's
me.

I really need to get back to my banjo.



JOAT
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