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Monday, June 01, 2009
Making prints and furniture
Mike Johnston has a funny post about darkrooms and making furniture.
Oh, and I just noticed that I have my first-ever "featured comment" on a post on tOP. And to think they said I'd never amount to anything! Well, I showed them.
Ah, good old Norm. The New Yankee Workshop really annoyed the heck out of me. I thought a woodworking show would be good, entertaining and educational.
"To make a dovetail joint I simple insert the wood into the Devetailerthon 2000, and there it is."
"Now we need to cut a groove 1/8th" in depth 3 inches from the edge, so I use my DeWalt 30' router table and run the wood through like thus..."
"To make this pair of wooden loves spoons we start by quarrying a piece of grit stone, and getting a bar of 1/4" steel, so we can hone a chisel to carve the wood...".
I guess these two are as unlike as photoshop to a darkroom.
Alex, Wouldn't that bar of 1/4" steel need to be forged bare-handedly first? I mean, is seems like an awfully convenient laziness to just use a fully manufactured bar...
You missed the previous three weeks where he made a forge, and showed you how to smelt the iron from ore. The interesting one was how he had to make a stone axe (ax) to cut down a tree and make a charcoal pit so he could smelt down the iron ore to make his other tools.
It's not actually that extreme, but compared with Norm's outfit, it's very basic. And yes, he build tools to do the job, bow saws, frame saws, and some of the chisels and things.
Smelting iron, bow saws... I feel like I'm re-watching that prehistoric action movie, Iron Master. Or was it Beastmaster? Master of the Universe? Conan the Smithsonian? Raquel Welsch in the Land of Giant Iguanas and Tarantulas? Hercules vs Godzilla? Yasserarafix and the Standing Stone Casting? Something! You know the genre I mean.
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Ah, good old Norm. The New Yankee Workshop really annoyed the heck out of me. I thought a woodworking show would be good, entertaining and educational.
"To make a dovetail joint I simple insert the wood into the Devetailerthon 2000, and there it is."
"Now we need to cut a groove 1/8th" in depth 3 inches from the edge, so I use my DeWalt 30' router table and run the wood through like thus..."
$480,000 is a conservative estimate.
Still it goes to extremes, that other show The Woodwrights Workshop starts with a sentence like
"To make this pair of wooden loves spoons we start by quarrying a piece of grit stone, and getting a bar of 1/4" steel, so we can hone a chisel to carve the wood...".
I guess these two are as unlike as photoshop to a darkroom.
Momma would be proud! :-)
Alex,
Wouldn't that bar of 1/4" steel need to be forged bare-handedly first? I mean, is seems like an awfully convenient laziness to just use a fully manufactured bar...
Pascal,
You missed the previous three weeks where he made a forge, and showed you how to smelt the iron from ore. The interesting one was how he had to make a stone axe (ax) to cut down a tree and make a charcoal pit so he could smelt down the iron ore to make his other tools.
It's not actually that extreme, but compared with Norm's outfit, it's very basic. And yes, he build tools to do the job, bow saws, frame saws, and some of the chisels and things.
Smelting iron, bow saws... I feel like I'm re-watching that prehistoric action movie, Iron Master.
Or was it Beastmaster? Master of the Universe? Conan the Smithsonian? Raquel Welsch in the Land of Giant Iguanas and Tarantulas? Hercules vs Godzilla? Yasserarafix and the Standing Stone Casting? Something! You know the genre I mean.
The one with Raquel Welch being ravished by velociraptors?
Now that one I'd have watched.
50 Million Years BC I believe.
I think it was more like 100 million.
Eye-pleasing for the lead actress. But the story? Oy vey! Emmes, it takes a maven to achieve such mediocrity.
For one, Homo sapiens has only been around for about 100,000 years. 65 million years ago, hominids weren't even a project of Mother Nature.
Theories of Intelligentdesignologists notwithstanding.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/one_million_years_bc/
I was off a bit.
Yeah, well, *I* was off a byte.
Mine is bigger than yours, dude. Booya!
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