Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

Viewing full screen is recommended.
http://wimp.com/chesspieces/

Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:39:15 -0500, kimosabe wrote
(in message
):

http://wimp.com/chesspieces/

Very good!
tom koehler

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Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

On Oct 28, 12:39*pm, kimosabe wrote:
Viewing full screen is recommended.http://wimp.com/chesspieces/

0:35 would have gotten me no END of **** from my
woodshop teacher.

Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

Father Haskell wrote:
On Oct 28, 12:39 pm, wrote:
Viewing full screen is recommended.http://wimp.com/chesspieces/

0:35 would have gotten me no END of **** from my
woodshop teacher.

Yeah, I just read in a book last week that anyone doing that is destined
for a trip to the ER.

Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

He definitely should have had some hearing protection there!

Even Seattle people would know better.

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"Bill" wrote in message ...
Yeah, I just read in a book last week that anyone doing that is
destined
for a trip to the ER.

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Father Haskell wrote:
On Oct 28, 12:39 pm, wrote:
Viewing full screen is recommended.http://wimp.com/chesspieces/

0:35 would have gotten me no END of **** from my
woodshop teacher.

Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

On 10/28/2011 08:39 AM, kimosabe wrote:
Viewing full screen is recommended.
http://wimp.com/chesspieces/

That's pretty impressive. One tool, and turning beads with his foot.
Kinda humbling...

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Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

Kevin Miller wrote:
On 10/28/2011 08:39 AM, kimosabe wrote:
Viewing full screen is recommended.
http://wimp.com/chesspieces/

That's pretty impressive. One tool, and turning beads with his foot.
Kinda humbling...


It made me ponder that people were probably a lot better at using what
they had, than we might give them credit for, centuries ago. Does
anyone know how the pyramids were made yet?

Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:31:50 -0400, Bill
wrote:

Kevin Miller wrote:
On 10/28/2011 08:39 AM, kimosabe wrote:
Viewing full screen is recommended.
http://wimp.com/chesspieces/

That's pretty impressive. One tool, and turning beads with his foot.
Kinda humbling...


It made me ponder that people were probably a lot better at using what
they had, than we might give them credit for, centuries ago.

Remember, that guy has probably already made 1,370 chess sets, so he
has a bit of experience with it by now. And way back when, a person's
job was their only job for their entire life, so vast experience was
had by all by the time they were 25, starting from a very young age.


Does anyone know how the pyramids were made yet?

One brick at a time.

--
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering WTF happened.

Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

Poured concrete bricks constructed from remote stone quarry dust.

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"Bill" wrote in message ...
It made me ponder that people were probably a lot better at using what
they had, than we might give them credit for, centuries ago. Does
anyone know how the pyramids were made yet?

Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

On 10/30/2011 8:42 PM, m II wrote:
Poured concrete bricks constructed from remote stone quarry dust.

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"Bill" wrote in message ...
It made me ponder that people were probably a lot better at using what
they had, than we might give them credit for, centuries ago. Does
anyone know how the pyramids were made yet?

With a hand powered lathe?

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Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

On Oct 30, 9:31*pm, Bill wrote:
Kevin Miller wrote:

Does anyone know how the pyramids were made yet?

Here's a video of a guy who can single-handedly move Stone Henge size
blocks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvx5...eature=related

Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

kimosabe wrote:
On Oct 30, 9:31 pm, wrote:
Kevin Miller wrote:

Does anyone know how the pyramids were made yet?

Here's a video of a guy who can single-handedly move Stone Henge size
blocks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvx5...eature=related

Cool! I was moved (really)! : )

Thanks for posting!

Bill

Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

He's almost "off his block!"

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"Bill" wrote in message ...
Cool! I was moved (really)! : )

Thanks for posting!

Bill

Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

On Oct 29, 10:33*pm, Bill wrote:
Father Haskell wrote:
On Oct 28, 12:39 pm, *wrote:
Viewing full screen is recommended.http://wimp.com/chesspieces/

0:35 would have gotten me no END of **** from my
woodshop teacher.

Yeah, I just read in a book last week that anyone doing that is destined
for a trip to the ER.

Carving without looking at what you're doing, one hand in
front of the chisel? I've no doubt that skew could shave hair
from his arm. Seems to be the only tool he uses.

Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

On Oct 30, 9:31*pm, Bill wrote:
Kevin Miller wrote:
On 10/28/2011 08:39 AM, kimosabe wrote:
Viewing full screen is recommended.
http://wimp.com/chesspieces/

That's pretty impressive. One tool, and turning beads with his foot.
Kinda humbling...

It made me ponder that people were probably a lot better at using what
they had, than we might give them credit for, centuries ago. *Does
anyone know how the pyramids were made yet?

Start with a *big* rock and carve away anything that
doesn't look like a pyramid.

Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

Then he goes inside and sharpens the chisel with a slow-speed motorized
wetstone grinder so he can show the public how poor he can look.


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"Father Haskell" wrote in message
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Carving without looking at what you're doing, one hand in
front of the chisel? I've no doubt that skew could shave hair
from his arm. Seems to be the only tool he uses.

Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 21:57:27 -0400, "Josepi"
Then he goes inside and sharpens the chisel with a slow-speed motorized
wetstone grinder so he can show the public how poor he can look.

Possibly. But at least there's no deception when it comes to you.
You're an asshole and everybody knows it immediately upon any contact
wth you.

Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

On Oct 30, 11:42*pm, "m II" wrote:
Poured concrete bricks constructed from remote stone quarry dust.

--------------"Bill" *wrote in ....

It made me ponder that people were probably a lot better at using what
they had, than we might give them credit for, centuries ago. *Does
anyone know how the pyramids were made yet?

Nope.

Some French chemist suggested that, but no one who has examined
the stones agrees with him. The blocks were cut from limestone in
a nearby quarry. Aside from the fact that it is trivial to
distinguish between
natural stone and concrete, some of the stones were set in mortar
which
would hardly be the case had they been cast in place.

Current thinking is that a metric buttload of independent contractors
working in teams were coordinated by people whom I would regard
as among the world's greatest project engineers.

For instance, the massive bakery that supplied the workers with bread
consisted of numerous small one-man bakeries.

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FF

Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

On Oct 28, 12:39*pm, kimosabe wrote:
Viewing full screen is recommended.http://wimp.com/chesspieces/

If you look closely you can see that he chips the top bead while
turning it. But then he just carves that into one of the flats on the
top of the king. That's a sign of a true craftsman, turning an error
into a feature!

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FF

Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

Fred the Red Shirt wrote:
On Oct 28, 12:39 pm, wrote:
Viewing full screen is recommended.http://wimp.com/chesspieces/

If you look closely you can see that he chips the top bead while
turning it. But then he just carves that into one of the flats on the
top of the king. That's a sign of a true craftsman, turning an error
into a feature!

He had me convinced by the time he started manipulating this chisel with
one foot! : )


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FF

Just a Guy Making Chess Pieces (Video)
 

He needs harder toenails and forget the chisel.
Where is his sense of showmanship?


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"Bill" wrote in message ...

Fred the Red Shirt wrote:
On Oct 28, 12:39 pm, wrote:
Viewing full screen is recommended.http://wimp.com/chesspieces/

If you look closely you can see that he chips the top bead while
turning it. But then he just carves that into one of the flats on the
top of the king. That's a sign of a true craftsman, turning an error
into a feature!

He had me convinced by the time he started manipulating this chisel with
one foot! : )


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FF