the hand plane collecting bug!!!
I started with one plane, i think a 3 1/2 stanly that was grandpa’s, then you sent me the two #3 and #5, then I got a block plane and trim plane for my b-day and another blockplane from DavidDone. I have 6 now, and they are so fun to use!!! not to mention this summer I will most likely get at least one more from my deceased other grandpa.
Can you hold the laser level while I shave?
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Andy,
Just wait until you start building them....
- Kit
You'll get over that bug when the girls take up your time.
Just as much fun, and never need sharpening. LOL
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
"Welcome to Poo-ville, can I have your socks?
Seriously Folks, I need a home for 3 lovers of your life.
last girl (and first) didn't destact me from woodworking in the way you are thinking at all, no surprise to me looking back
Can you hold the laser level while I shave?
Well thats a good thing.
Glad yer enjoying planeing, it really is a blast. Quiet, accurate, and old timey. Just think about the zillions of things still standing that were made before electricty. SOME BODY was the power..pretty awesome when ya really study the old work.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
"Welcome to Poo-ville, can I have your socks?Seriously Folks, I need a home for 3 lovers of your life.
I think some girls can be a lot higher maintenance than old planes LOL
Flat and sharp are good attributes in a plane...
Not flat and sharp are good attributes in a girl ! Pay attention, Andy.Greg
You have to love a nicely tuned plane and a girl with a good sole.
No comment on the throat as I don't want to get kicked off Breaktime.
lol, this should be in the jokes thread ;)
Can you hold the laser level while I shave?
Takes them too long to get to looking sharp and then when they do it usually costs too much as well. Planes are much simpler.
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
Andy,
The cool thing about older tools is that they have a history. You may come across a very usable plane or chisel that is 50-100 years old, and you're going to tune it up and probably use and have it for the rest of your life. Somebody else did that at one time with the same tool.
Think about how many craftsmen held that thing, how many barns it helped build, or pieces of furniture it helped make.
I have quite a collection of planes myself, and every time I tune one of them, I think of that.
Think about how many craftsmen held that thing, how many barns it helped build, or pieces of furniture it helped make.
Or how many cans of paint they opened up!
Bad Doug.
>slap across nose with newspaper<
Andy,
The cool thing about older tools is that they have a history. You may come across a very usable plane or chisel that is 50-100 years old, and you're going to tune it up and probably use and have it for the rest of your life. Somebody else did that at one time with the same tool.
Think about how many craftsmen held that thing, how many barns it helped build, or pieces of furniture it helped make.
I have quite a collection of planes myself, and every time I tune one of them, I think of that.
These innuendoes are getting strange.
"These innuendoes are getting strange."Good reason, they come from a much stranger place.
Oh my friend....you have no idea.
"Just as much fun, and never need sharpening. LOL"Yeah, but some of them have no soul. A plane always has that, no matter how rusty.
andyfew,
Please! please! don't go to Lie Nielsen then.. Those Stanley's are fine tools and properly tuned up and sharpened they are fine tools all by themselves. You don't need to indulge those crazed lust filled passions.. Will power alone is enough.
If not listen to she-who-must-be-obeyed.. It's wrong to use that credit card reserved for emergencies.
Plus when they arrive you will pull them out of that box with tenderness you reserved for the first exploration of your ladies body. You'll hold them up and admire them as a fine expensive bottle of wine or something equally cherished..
You'll unwrap one after another. Each a thing of beauty and tactile feeling unlike anything previous.. They will sit there sparkling in the sunlight. Brilliant sparkles of light bouncing off the polished brass and gleaming Rosewood handles.
You'll hold each one and note the comfortable way they fit your hand and wonder how those craftsmen could possibly have come and measure your hands so exactly while you slept. So perfectly do they fit and conform to your hands..
The hands of a now real craftsman..
"Brilliant sparkles of light bouncing off the polished brass and gleaming Rosewood handles."
Cherry handles. L-Ns have cherry handles. (DAMHIKT.) Let's not get carried away now!
;-)
Mike HennessyPittsburgh, PA
Mike,
Only if you don't order the optional rosewood handles!
<Big ol stupid ship eatin' grin>
But to be fair one of mine I ordered with the cherry handle and two of them have brass handles..
By the way they will sell their rosewood handles for Stanley's if you are interesed.
Frenchy-
remember that Andy is only 15 y.o.
He's not supposed to know about exploring a ladies body. Or about a fine expensive wine.
I think we're corrupting him enough already <G>
Shep,
Please note like all responsible adults I warned him what not to do and informed him of the consquences of failing to heed my warning.. <grin>
Yeah Frenchy....and a lot of help you are in convincing him along the straight and narrow!(Later on...could you tell me again the part about unwrapping them and holding them in your hand. Please?! I promise not to tell anyone and to keep my eyes closed.)
At this rate, we're gonna have to open an X-rated area of the tavern, where guys can unwrap, and fondle, and gush, and gloat on their
tools
It might be safer to just talk about McFeely's screws.
Billy