I adjusted my table saw today after moving it to a new house. It had moved
approx 0.030" out of square. With Mr.Bennet's fancy tool I managed to get
the miter slot to within 0.5 though front to back (of the blade) and the
fence to within 1.5 thou, falling wider at the back of the blade. Took all
of about ten minutes....damn I like that TS Aligner Jr!

Now...it's onto the jointer.

Crap...did I just start another Bennet thread?

I also had to cut my Fine woodworking pipe-clamp bench from it's original 8'
to a new 5' in order to fit it in the shop. In so doing I removed the long
clamps as I never used them anyways and I installed a knock off or a Record
7" vise that I picked up for $30 CDN.... The bench seems quite happy, I
managed to keep the planing bean and it actually went together again like it
was meant to be. Imagine that.

Yesterday I got together with a couple of other guys and we milled a
domestic cherry using an Alaskan chain-sawmill. That was cool and enjoyable,
but what's cooler. is the 12/4 thick 16" wide 7' long slab I have in my
carport...that cost $0. I have three years to think of a project for it.
Also have some very nice pieces of spalted cottonwood...thinking boxes
perhaps?

Had a friend pick up some Bessey 24" clamps for $25 each...Canadian. Yup,
they're new. Seems HD up here is trading brands and were blowing them out.
He went store-to-store-to store and bought 34 of them on spec. They're all
gone now...

I asked my wife to go out and get some wood glue the other day and she came
back with Elmer's (I like Titebond II). I groaned but tried it...and I think
I like it!

night Tom

Rob

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http://www.robswoodworking.com

"Tom Watson" wrote in message
...
Over the course of the past few months I have initiated a number of
threads about Politics.

In some cases I just sailed off the paper airplane and watched what
happened.

In other instances I have provided interlinear encouragement to keep
the thread active.

Th Debil made me do it.

During the same compass of time I have started threads that were
solely about WoodDorking.

While the Political threads bloomed and branched, in sum total
creating over a thousand responses - the WoodDorking threads yielded
less than a hundred.



We pretend, us Wreckers, to despise the intercession of the Politic -
yet we jump all over it like a starving dog on a meatwagon.

We lie to ourselves.

From November of 1994 until three months ago, I said nary a word about
Politics on the Wreck.

On the odd instance that I referred to it at all, it was with
disapprobation.

Still, we stewed in the discussions from time to time and all of us
were culpable.


Do I think that the Wreck should be "Politics Free"? Of course not.
That would be unnatural - and I have always found the Wreck to be the
most natural realm of public discourse - given that its main intent is
that of WoodDorking.


I have heard the Wreck described as a neigborhood tavern, mostly
frequented by WoodDorkers.

I have seen it described as a simulacrum of a country store, with a
fine pot-bellied stove, around which we all gather to spin our tales
and trade information - mostly about WoodDorking.


Most of us had Mommas that educated us to the degree that we would not
introduce The Big Three into conversations with either strangers or
friends - Sex, Religion, and Politics. Lordy, were we not paying
attention?


Y'all do what you want - my personal experiment with talking Politics
on the Wreck is over.


You have my personal pledge that I will not initiate, nor will I
respond to any thread that has to do with Politics.


However, it would be nice, if the next time that someone starts a
thread about Design, or Joinery, or Finishing - that the Group, as a
whole, showed it the same level of involvement that has heretofore
been resrved for Politics, or Religion, or Sex.

MHO

YMMV





Regards,
Tom.

"People funny. Life a funny thing." Sonny Liston

Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1