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11-20-2022, 12:20pm | #21 | ||||||
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Much respect for anybody who can accomplish this with wood, especially using obsolete technology and tools. I never had the feel for it and always cut off too much in wood shop as a kid. Can do better today (have done some gunstock repairs, etc. ) but I admire and respect true craftsman, as shown here. I hate hate hate it when people paint over nice wood. See it all the time and it makes me cringe. Natural grain is the way to go.
Very nice, gents. |
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i have 2 dovetail jigs for use with my router and matching bits.
i still don't know the difference between pins and tails. i've done a few drawers with that joinery, some for a kitchen long ago, some for a coffee table pair of drawers. not my favorite corner joint. |
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Pins are on the right and the tails are on the left. Pins go into tails. "London pins" are when the pins are so fine you cannot slip a dime between the tails. I have a Leigh D4 dovetail jig, but only pull it out when I am doing large carcass work like blanket chests or something. For boxes, I prefer the finer hand cut dovetails. |
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Sometimes, when I am just fooling around, I try to see just how fine I can cut them.
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Love those big pencils!
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run your text in the same order as the picture. i could stare at this all day long, and tomorrow, i'd still fail a quiz about dovetails. not something i mess with often enough to remember it or care about it. |
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I really admire your boxes and dovetail joints. I have not developed that talent yet. I am still pretty much a “butt” jointer. Now you guys can have fun with that statement! LOL
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When making my kitchen cabinets some 20 years ago, I just used butttttt joints, and the smell was a bit off......
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Interesting question. Primarily acoustic music. While I like AC/DC as much as the next guy, it's still going to sound like shit no matter what speakers you play it through. In my opinion, to really hear what a speaker is capable of, you must know what the source really sounds like in person. While my main listening preference leans towards big band swing, when I am testing speakers I tend to pull out some exotica. Arthur Lyman, Martin Denny, Robert Drasnin, Les Baxter, etc... Listening to "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" by Les Baxter through these speakers is a sheer delight. As is "Brazil" as played by Tino Contreras. Listening to "Solitude" off the Duke Ellington and John Coltrane album, you would swear that they were in the room with you. Same with the Diana Krall trio on the "All For You" CD (a dedication to Nat King Cole). Owning a grand piano myself, I know what they are supposed to sound like. I also pay particular attention to the percussion sounds. Many speakers struggle with resolving cymbals without making them sound "splashy". And I tend to avoid tweeters with metallic domes because, no matter how good they may sound at first, I have yet to hear one that doesn't lead to listener fatigue. My opinion only.
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When I was in Afghanistan, people would send us thousands of sticks every month so we turned a conex into a humidity controlled storage room and sent boxes of sticks out on every convoy and supply delivery. I'd pick through the left overs with a couple of other officers and usually kept about $1K worth in my office and another in my quarters. Hoarding....greed...smoking? Nope. They were used to bribe contractors to extend their orders and finish the work I needed done. Worked pretty well, too. It got to the point where contractors from Bagram would jump at the chance to fly out to my FOB to do some of the commo repairs I needed because of it. |
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I enjoy the occasional Nub with a maduro wrapper. |
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