Potpourri - July, Aug, Sept 2010

[burkhome]

I thought the rest had hair on their head.

Good point!

[mickyd]

Mike, another thing I should have mentioned earlier was that when using your technique you need to consider how to keep control of the stock and how to keep it against the fence. A push stick doesn't give much control. I guess one could use feather boards, but they get cumbersome if you have to keep adjusting them to varying size stock. If you're right handed and still a bit apprehensive, keeping the fence to the right of the blade and using both hands to control the stock, with the right hand pushing the wood is best. Of course, you should use a push shoe when the stock is too narrow to push the stock through with your bare hand. However you cut wood, be safe.

Also, kickback is something you don't want to experience.

Here are a couple of photos showing a push shoe that uses a replaceable strip of hardboard that hooks behind the stock and another showing a safer way to use your hand when ripping stock (just hook a couple of fingers over the fence when pushing the wood past the blade). Also there is a picture of a narrow shoe and a push stick (with the black handle). The latter is rarely used, simply because it doesn't give much control.

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Like the shoe design penniview. In my previous post where I said I used a pushstick, I actually meant to say a 'shoe'. Shipwright had first shown me that concept and I've stuck with it since. The conventional pushstick freaks me out. I only trust having a downward force on the stock and I just don't see a pushstick doing that at all. Fingers over the fence....that I do also, again, thanks to shipwright. I figured a guy that made it through an entire boatbuilding career while maintaining 10 intact fingers deserves credit for his methods and techniques.

[robinson46176]

I figured a guy that made it through an entire boatbuilding career while maintaining 10 intact fingers deserves credit for his methods and techniques.

He also approaches things with good common sense. That will get you safely past far more dangers than all of the warning labels on the planet.

[dlbristol]

[quote="robinson46176"]"He" (well, he used to be) is an Appaloosa about 7 or 8 years old. I told someone today that he looked like the worst batch of rust holes I have seen since my old 1977 GMC...
Below is a blog I did about the purchase.
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He followed me home, can I keep him?

What a great story! My Wife enjoyed it as well. This is one of the " shopsmith guys" posts that I shared. My bride came home from state fair yesterday with her brothers dog, so I know how you can '"accidently" end up with critters. Happens all the time.
I taught with a lady who raised Apps for years and I recall her efforts to breed a line of Apps like this guy. She had several, but as far as I know she never got the color consistently. If my recall is correct, they are rare and prized. Thanks for sharing the story, I needed to laugh!

[shipwright]

Like the shoe design penniview. In my previous post where I said I used a pushstick, I actually meant to say a 'shoe'. Shipwright had first shown me that concept and I've stuck with it since. The conventional pushstick freaks me out. I only trust having a downward force on the stock and I just don't see a pushstick doing that at all. Fingers over the fence....that I do also, again, thanks to shipwright. I figured a guy that made it through an entire boatbuilding career while maintaining 10 intact fingers deserves credit for his methods and techniques.

Thanks for the kind words Mike but please don't say things like the above in your outside voice. It tempts fate just a bit.

Paul M

[shipwright]

They may look like rust holes to you Francis, but to me it looks like sombody's been kissing his a...

Paul M

[shipwright]

With the summer coming to an end and the first rains of fall showing up we have been getting several mice in our crawl space. We've been controlling them with traps but there seems to be no end to the supply. Soooo... today I went down into the crawl space to see if i could find anything with a "MOUSE FRONT DOOR" sign on it, and after a bit I did. I pulled out a suspicious chunk of insulation and found a considerable amount of "mouse sign". Then I went outside and found the little wee crack in the cement between the back steps (poured separately) and the foundation and plugged it up. That, however, is not the story. When I pulled the insulation out there was someone else living there:

Isn't she pretty?

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Never saw one in AZ but since I won't be going there this year, she came to me.

Paul M

[horologist]

Isn't she pretty?

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Never saw one in AZ but since I won't be going there this year, she came to me.

Paul M

Lovely.

We don't see many of the black ones. but the brown ones do appear regularly. Around here the motto is "death to arachnids!"

Troy

[dusty]

Well Paul, just because you never saw them while you were here in Arizona doesn't mean they don't exist. I have a metal paint storage locker (that now has a lot more than paint stored in it) that seems to be an ideal breeding area.

I am very careful and watchful when I bring stuff out of the paint locker.

[burkhome]

One of the best reasons I can think of to live in the frozen north.