It's been awful quiet here lately. Don't know if it's the summer thing and
everybody is off doing something else, but the silence is deafening.

I should be shot for saying it, but even the political rhetoric would be a
welcome change if only so people post a woodworking related message just to
change the subject.

Tim, you're limited to TWO MESSAGES!!!

"Upscale" wrote in message
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It's been awful quiet here lately. Don't know if it's the summer thing and
everybody is off doing something else, but the silence is deafening.

I should be shot for saying it, but even the political rhetoric would be a
welcome change if only so people post a woodworking related message just
to
change the subject.

Tim, you're limited to TWO MESSAGES!!!



OK,

There is a similar string in Sawmill Creek that I posted.

I have had issues with being able to saw to a line with my hand saws. I
discovered that if I marked the cutline with a carmine red Col-Erase pencil,
my cuts improved significantly. My lighting is fluorescent and I have an Ott
lamp for illuminating the work.

Have you experienced anything like this?

"Upscale" wrote in message
...

It's been awful quiet here lately. Don't know if it's the summer thing and
everybody is off doing something else, but the silence is deafening.

I should be shot for saying it, but even the political rhetoric would be a
welcome change if only so people post a woodworking related message just
to
change the subject.

It has been quiet. Perhaps others are in the same boat as me in that they
haven't had much shop time lately. Did have a rush job for a coffin for the
Boy Scout camp last week though... Today it was too hot and humid for yard
work so I resumed working on a project that stalled at the end of March.
I've got a couple projects that need a couple to three or four days to
finish that I hope to complete by September. I also have charity auction
items to make before October. So many things to do that I don't have time
for my paying job... but glad to have one in these times!

On the up side, tomorrow I'm going to test assemble and run my recently
acquired 36" bandsaw. We're going to test the bearing run out and
lubrication on the wheel bearings (dial indicator and thermal temperature
readings). The bearings "feel" OK but now is the time to do a real
inspection before moving it out of the commercial motor/generator shop where
we're doing the work. I'm doing this with an eye towards having it at my
shop in the next few weeks.

John

"Lowell Holmes" wrote in message
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I have had issues with being able to saw to a line with my hand saws. I
discovered that if I marked the cutline with a carmine red Col-Erase
pencil, my cuts improved significantly. My lighting is fluorescent and I
have an Ott lamp for illuminating the work.

Have you experienced anything like this?

It's called old age.

"Lowell Holmes" wrote in message
...

"Upscale" wrote in message
...

It's been awful quiet here lately. Don't know if it's the summer thing
and
everybody is off doing something else, but the silence is deafening.

I should be shot for saying it, but even the political rhetoric would be
a
welcome change if only so people post a woodworking related message just
to
change the subject.

Tim, you're limited to TWO MESSAGES!!!



OK,

There is a similar string in Sawmill Creek that I posted.

I have had issues with being able to saw to a line with my hand saws. I
discovered that if I marked the cutline with a carmine red Col-Erase
pencil, my cuts improved significantly. My lighting is fluorescent and I
have an Ott lamp for illuminating the work.

Have you experienced anything like this?


Mine improved when I started knifing the line and placing a worklight kind
of low so that it left a sharp shadow line in the score.

Tom Dacon

"Lowell Holmes" wrote in
:


OK,

There is a similar string in Sawmill Creek that I posted.

I have had issues with being able to saw to a line with my hand saws.
I discovered that if I marked the cutline with a carmine red Col-Erase
pencil, my cuts improved significantly. My lighting is fluorescent and
I have an Ott lamp for illuminating the work.

Have you experienced anything like this?



Interestingly, yes. I don't know why, but it seems like using a standard
#2 pencil allows me to be more accurate in my woodworking marks and
measurements than using a 0.5mm mechanical pencil. By lowering the
precision, I've increased the accuracy.

Well, we'll see how well it's working out with my latest project... I've
got about 90 pencil lines I've had to match up with the jig for cutting
mortises. If everything works out, I'll have little trouble assembling
the dog gate.

Puckdropper
--
"The potential difference between the top and bottom of a tree is the
reason why all trees have to be grounded..." -- Bored Borg on
rec.woodworking

To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm

"Puckdropper" puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote

.......................... I don't know why, but it seems like using a
standard
#2 pencil allows me to be more accurate in my woodworking marks and
measurements than using a 0.5mm mechanical pencil. By lowering the
precision, I've increased the accuracy.

It seems to me that if a pencil line is made from a templet (eg scrbing the
pins from dovetails or vice-versa), we need to saw to the outside of the
line, hence as far as accuracy is concerned, the thickness is immaterial,
though a thick line is easier to see.

If the line is a dimension line, we locate the centre of the pencil at the
required mark, so we should saw to remove half the line. In this case a
fairly thick line can be better since we can more easily see the remaining
half of the line.

Jeff

--
Jeff Gorman, West Yorkshire, UK
email : Username is amgron
ISP is clara.co.uk
www.amgron.clara.net

Damn recession is effecting everything, even the quantity of posts is
down.

Actually, might be some truth to the statement because less people
working or people working less means less money to spend on projects
which means less problems encountered, thus less posts.

On Aug 1, 4:36*pm, "Upscale" wrote:
It's been awful quiet here lately. Don't know if it's the summer thing and
everybody is off doing something else, but the silence is deafening.

I should be shot for saying it, but even the political rhetoric would be a
welcome change if only so people post a woodworking related message just to
change the subject.

Tim, you're limited to TWO MESSAGES!!!