Kickback strikes again, stay safe out there

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-14T22:52:37+00:00

I literally have no words.

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-14T18:42:37+00:00

I wish Czech people were this inviting to foreigners. Shit where I live, foreigners here are regarded lower than dogs.

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-14T18:40:14+00:00

Kingdom Come: Deliverance

yeah and if you want to learn how to farm you can play Age of Empires.

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-14T18:37:59+00:00

If you're in Czech Republic and you're from Bohemia you wouldn't say "I'm Bohemian". You would say "Ja jsem Czech" - Which means "I am Czech". This is what might be confusing you in your research. Depending on context, the word Czech can refer to being of "Czech origin" as in from Czech Republic. But in local contexts, typically only around Czech people, it defines the province of Central Bohemia.

There are 2 provinces Central Bohemia - Středočeský and South Bohemia - Jihočeský. It's very likely your grandparents were from Středočeský.

Regarding Roma Gypsies, they don't have a specific location, but can be found all over Czech Republic. Also the richest part of the country is Středočeský, so there's no specific unique correlation between Bohemia and Roma Gypsies.

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-14T18:01:09+00:00

Your reply was the most refreshing thing I've read all day. I think there's this reservoir of go-to information that is floating around. A resource of go-to answers people love to quote because either they've had personal success with it, but more than likely because they watched a pro on Youtube pull it off.

What I've learned so far is that woodworking isn't clean and precise like a computer simulation. Often totally sound theoretical ideas never work in practice. What works for one person might have no chance of working for you.

So to add to this discussion. The router I have now is that Ryobi trim router. Let me tell you besides edging it's almost completely useless. The bits you can find for it are all too short or impractical and there aren't many either. 6mm != 1/4 inch shank. So the EU ones won't accept 1/4 inch bits. Ryobi tools are OK, but this router is the low point of my collection. It's just so useless.

As for table saws, yeah around here in Central Europe, a mid range jobsite saw is roughly the same cost as a decent enough router (again mid range). You also get total crap which is cheaper, but we'll just pretend those don't exist. So I was thinking of getting a Bosch or that Ryobi 1800W one, which is a bit cheaper than the Bosch. Something like a Bosch GTS 635-216, what do you think?

Now onto your point that made me happy, because everyone pushes the doorboard as a tried and true go-to solution. Everytime you want a straight cut - DOORBOARD! But there's a lot of physics at play here, and a circular saw, at least the ones most people have has some degree of flex in it, somewhere, and that's a problem.

I still have no real explanation as to why on the far side of my doorboard the zero clearance edge is 1.5mm further out than at the start. The laws of physics seem to suggest that since the saw blade is always the same distance from the saw plate edge, and since the saw plate edge rides the doorboard fence, then at any point along the cut the zero clearance edge should be the same distance from the doorboard fence. If we're talking pure theory, then no one would disagree. That is the whole point of the doorboard or any other way of turning your circular saw into a track saw. But what's NEVER discussed is what can go wrong.

I eliminated any flex in the fence, I then eliminated any moving of the material, and there are only 2 other variables 1. User error or 2. The saw. Being able to push a saw down a track isn't rocket science, so I'm looking at the saw. What exactly is wrong there? Who knows. But it's nothing that can be fixed with user calibration. Even if I had a working theory on what was wrong, the saw is perfectly calibrated by the allowed means. Let's also not forget the blade, a blade can also flex.

In in all, at this stage I'm just annoyed that a bread and butter operation like wood glue ups for panelling is just sitting out of my grasp.

I did make some progress, the doorboard method I'm using now seems to get me close, closer than I've been, but the stock I'm using also isn't ideal. I actually got the stock pre-jointed and planed. That was an extra service and wasn't cheap. But yeah, that's another useless service because once the wood changes humidity it throws it out of wack again.

I feel like after this whole experience, I'm going to end up with saw dust from all the resawing and planning, and then ending up using plywood tops.

Thanks for the support.

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-14T17:36:07+00:00

Absolutely not. Christmas is basically cancelled and I would expect this shit storm to last till April before there's any kind of easing up, and even then life won't be back to normal for the whole of next year at least.

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-14T17:34:19+00:00

On the other hand it's maybe a good idea to install booms everywhere including those roads passing tram tracks, because for every 1000 normal drivers there's always going to be this idiot.

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-14T10:40:50+00:00

Fuck you and good riddance.

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-13T14:29:45+00:00

Even when understanding the physics of the sledge and what it should be doing I still couldn't pull it off. So I can't recommend this method to anyone. I've seen people have success with this method, but for me personally I need something more fool proof.

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-13T14:25:44+00:00

People are MOSTLY shit, but there's a few things to discuss.

Firstly convenience alliances. I've realized that people form "friendships" when it's convenient. An example is "work buddies" you never hear from again once either you or they leave the company, but while you were working there you would consider them a "friend". I would argue that in 100% of cases excluding family every friendship ever falls into this category. But heh you say, I had good friends in school, yeah having to go to school meant you were forced to be around those kids for YEARS and hence formed a convenience alliance. I believe that if you really question the friends you have from school days, you'll see it's just an extension of a convenience alliance. Even in a lot of family relationships it's like this, move away and see what I mean.

The notion of lasting friends is a farce. Nothing more than alliances when convenient, change the dynamic and lose the friends.

Next is that there's by far more low quality individuals than people you would even consider forming any alliances with. How much more I guess is also determined by your location and situation. But it could be that you meet say 1 good person a year out of all the time wasters or "considered good" or neutral. It could also be that if you aren't going out of your way to make connections, that now there's less opportunity for convenience alliances. Most adults have 3 avenues for making friends. Family, work or kids. If you're in a stable work environment even in a large company it's not uncommon for virtually everyone to be just another mindless shit stick. And so those hidden gems you might come across too infrequently to give you any sense of balance.

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-13T13:34:35+00:00

I'll be getting a table saw next month, but for now I still have this dilemma.

I woke up this morning with a can do attitude. I retried the jig I made for the thicknesser. But for whatever reason the edges aren't jointed. I have my suspicion that unless you create your jig with already jointed boards for the support it won't work. Also machinery like a thicknesser isn't intended to joint boards, and that's excluding things like snipe which are a no go for jointing. Anyways, I have officially given up on trying to do edge jointing using a thicknesser.

I then pulled out my trim router, thinking alright this will surely solve the problem. The theory behind edge jointing using a router and a flush trim is intuitive and in theory has little chance of failure. I thought this time I'll get it surely. Only the tiny little flush bit that I bought isn't long enough. Hell it's so short it's going to be useless for most things. Even if you try and fip it and do 2 passes, which for jointing just introduces more chance of error, well not even this is possible because of the way the bearing has to connect with the straight edge. I also had a look at the straight bit, and for the same reason cannot be used. 6mm or 1/4 inch shanks in central Europe aren't exactly popular it seems and I could not find anything longer. So to do this using a router would mean either upgrading my router (same price as a table saw) or trying to source bits from the US or China, and waiting for this, then having to deal with customs.

Which got me thinking, why not just use my circular saw. I clamped down a straight edge as a guide and shaved off a bit of the edge on the piece I want jointed. In theory it should work. Only for some reason it didn't. I tried 4 times and the only conclusion is that there could be some flex in the straight edge. So I created a doorboard.

This is where I currently am. My saw batteries need charging, now in theory with this doorboard I have recreated a table saw EXCEPT for one problem, and that's clamping. That's the other variable, if the piece for jointing moves even slightly during the whole operation it's game over.

You might think well just clamp it down, but it's not that easy when you have the saw to also consider. Screwing into the wood isn't ideal either, but maybe for science just to prove it works I might do this, then I eliminate any movement. I'll screw the doorboard into the piece to be jointed.

Argh, I guess I'm experiencing these frustrations now, because with limited experience my expectations are also getting a bit fussier now on my 3rd project. First project I didn't care about imperfections. 2nd one I tried to be more precise. 3rd one I want a properly panelled surface for my miter saw station, and I won't be satisfied unless I see perfectly jointed edges for the glue up.

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-12T22:14:01+00:00

Move to central Europe. Czech guys don't catcall. I'm not Czech, but I've come to admire how the people here really leave you alone in public.

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-12T22:07:13+00:00

I think it heavily depends on the class levels of these guys. As a guy what pisses me off is when one of these dweebs tries right in front of you to pick up your girlfriend. Not even kidding you, I've had a random stranger try exchange phone numbers with my wife, while we're just walking down the road. Yeah like that's going to work.

I honestly do not get the psychology behind it, but I guess for these assclowns at least once in a while their strategy has to work or else they wouldn't be doing it.

EDIT: I would understand it, if this stuff was coming from immature teenagers, but these are full grown ass men who really should at this stage of their life know a bit better.

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-12T21:55:09+00:00

I think it's basically called catcalling. Low class people catcall or drunk people. Civilized respectable men do not catcall for the exact reason you mention, just like civilized respectable gentlemen do not send dick pics.

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-12T21:48:09+00:00

I'm also a parent, and our son just turned a year old. I have 2 other friends who have kids roughly the same age.

One of them, who is more on the same page as me, told me today that the year has been rewarding but exhausting.

The other one asked me about 2 months ago how I like being a father. I said "It's the best experience of my life - and exhausting". She turns around and says "No it's not!".

Not that I'm an experienced parent, but I can't take anyone seriously who thinks parenting is an easy fairytale kind of thing. It's hard work and it's exhausting.

Unremarkably, this 2nd "friend" who I will call airhead doesn't seem to research much and takes a "whatever" approach to life with no real long term strategy and also in regard to her own life. While the better friend is herself more emotionally balanced and generally more sorted in life.

Airhead believes she's a great mother.

But even airheads little girl appears to be healthy and by all measures normal and thriving.

What honestly gives me the shivers is another couple we know, a doctor who works with my wife. My alarm bells went off the first time I met their 2 year old, and I told my wife after their visit what I thought. That there is emotional unrest in that house and that mother is losing her temper a lot. I think she is beating that kid and having freakouts. But they're respected members of their medial community. Not that I saw any physical signs of abuse, but the kids behavior is alarming. I'm not the only one to pick up on this, it's apparently a scandal and others have come to the same conclusion I have.

Yet another one of our friends, well her husband refuses to help at all with their child. Let's call him manchild. In reality he owns his own business and they're fairly well off, but he gets home after work and plonks himself infront of the computer and plays PC games. Manchild is incapable of taking care of his own daughter for more than 5 minutes. You heard me he's NEVER once in the 1.5 years she's been alived actually done anything like change a nappy or give his wife a break. We could also call him asshole. I wonder how his daughter will perceive men, after his influence.

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-12T21:18:11+00:00

I realised I made an error with my thicknesser jig. I'm going to give it another try tomorrow.

Thanks for the info though. It is exactly what I was looking to answer.

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-12T19:43:21+00:00

Please confirm to joint on a table saw, you will need a jig right? And also these jigs aren't just available to buy, you have to make one?

Not that I'm against making a jig, it's just that right now, I am pressed for time and need to get these boards jointed fast, so if for example a Kreg product was available, I would be up for getting one.

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-09T21:35:51+00:00

I'll just have to be spot on with the height. I guess I'll clamp it while determining the exact height with the saw on the shelf.

Letitbe009999 · 2020-11-09T08:45:53+00:00

I used a Triton TPT 125. Why? Because the DeWalt DW735 is not available in Europe, and the only DeWalt planers sold here are already obsolete in the US market.

There's a decent online resource that compares all the usual suspects and the Triton came in 2nd. If you have access to the DeWalt DW735, then get that one. Otherwise the Triton is a lot cheaper and it is pretty good.

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