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Very, very funny.

Nice work. You should post this on SMC, and maybe Lumberjocks as well.

Awesome. I've got a bamboo blank ready to ferrule right now. I did all the work last winter, and it got put on the back burner for a couple of months. Glued it up a few weeks ago, and when I sanded it up, it was beautiful. No glue lines!

Waiting on my machinist buddy (Mark Shamburg, if you frequent ...

Flyfishing is my first love, much higher on my list of hobbies than woodworking.

As a fellow fly fisher, who has already had to spend a day 2+ miles from the car fishing with a reel in my pocket because a reel seat failed, I would not mess with this idea.

If you do, make sure you've got some duct ...

Wow, that's awesome. I need to do that too. The lack of a lower guard bothers me every time someone walks into my garage.

easterngray wrote:



Finished bench

Alec

That's the beefiest fly tying bench I've ever seen, Alec.

I went to five different locations, about a month ago, trying to buy a sheet of bakelite. Everyone looked at me like I was nuts. "Bakelite, never heard of it".

I wanted it for a prototype out feed table that I am contemplating.

Probably good that I could not find it. I checked a small piece that ...

u hear alot about set-up time with the mark v. why the hurry. i enjoy the time when i set-up for i know what i can produce with the time it takes me to set-up. shop time is a joy to me .

I can't agree more. Nice desk. I should do something like that in my shop for layout and sketching.

I've got a one car garage that is my shop. I share it with bikes, and lawn equipment.

Someday, I'll pull everything out, and put it all back where I want it, but I haven't done that yet.

I don't think you'd want to use a plastic tote. That wouldn't offer much insulation for a cooler and I don't know how durable that would be. Do you have a sporting goods store? Bass Pro Shops, Academy Sporting Goods, Cabela's, Dicks Sporting Goods, or something like that? They should carry coolers ...

There are a few on Ebay right now.