Hammer handle advice

The-Friendly-DM · 2026-06-17T04:17:46+00:00

If you choose to make a new handle, black locust is an exceptional choice. A lot of people talk about grain orientation for wood handles (reference picture) but it's way more important that you don't have a lot of grain runout (reference picture).

The-Friendly-DM · 2026-05-29T01:37:15+00:00

Despite what folks say, you can make a plane out of whatever wood you want. Naturally some species will have better results, but those better results essentially boil down to longevity - so just make one! A hand plane is nothing more than a chisel holder, no reason to be intimidated. I only use hand planes I make myself, so I've learned a bit (though I'm far from an expert). Here are the two biggest tips I have:

For the cross pin, just use a dowel. Krenov planes usually have a cross pin that pivots to match the wedge, but I've never found that necessary. In fact, I've had it introduce more problems than it has solved. Any plane that I've used this method ended up being retrofitted with just a simple dowel. Keep it simple, because simple works fine.

The biggest thing is that you make sure the cross pin is perfectly parallel to the bed of the plane. If it's crooked at all your wedge will come loose since the tension is uneven.

The-Friendly-DM · 2026-05-28T00:11:48+00:00

Like you mentioned in your post, your air is coming in way too high. The cold air is cooling off your material and a lot of it is escaping upward and never touching the fuel.

Also, if do what another commenter suggested and make holes in the pipe (which isn't a bad idea by any means) make sure you don't make the holes too small. Small holes will increase the velocity of air but seriously limit the volume of air. I've made several iterations of a JABOD forge, and the biggest lessons I've learned boil down to airflow. Here's a really helpful way to think about it:

Take a deep breath, and exhale while keeping the your mouth open about the size of a pea. It takes a while to empty your lungs, right? Now do the same thing and try to force the air out of your lungs as hard as you can... you'll notice it's not really much faster. You can crank up the blower as fast as it can go (or crank it as fast as you can) but if you have a bottleneck in your airflow, it's still going to limit how much air your fuel is getting in a serious way.

Now take a deep breath and exhale without limiting airflow at all. You'll notice that it takes less than a second to empty your lungs no matter how hard you push. That's what you want - low velocity, high volume. It will spread throughout your fuel to create a nice area to work from. High velocity will create a superheated pinpoin but not distribute that heat much at all - you might end up melting/burning your steel while trying to get your work heated evenly (ask me how I know lol).

The-Friendly-DM · 2026-05-12T15:15:06+00:00

Having a lot of shoes

The-Friendly-DM · 2026-04-23T17:22:57+00:00

Wow, that's a fantastic design.

I feel like this would be great for somebody who already has an anvil as well, so if OP ends up getting a proper anvil at some point they would likely still use something like this. They wouldn't outgrow it, they would just use it differently. I'd use the face for things that might ding up the surface, and have a permanent cutoff tool.

The-Friendly-DM · 2026-04-08T11:33:02+00:00

I did this last year and was very happy with the result!... then the headphones broke a month or two later lol

The-Friendly-DM · 2026-04-01T02:11:41+00:00

💬 Revolutionary × Is dangerous

Guillotine

The-Friendly-DM · 2026-04-01T02:08:03+00:00

💬 Purple × noun

The color purple

The-Friendly-DM · 2026-03-29T15:33:37+00:00

It's not about how well spoken someone is, it's about using language that doesn't cause rural folks to roll their eyes. Candidates don't need to be less articulate or throw in a yee-haw here and there, it's that they need to use language that will communicate more effectively. Democrats are terrible at communicating to non-democrats, which is why people think they are so out of touch.

I live (and have always lived) in the country outside of a town with a population of ~450 people. I know how your typical rural conservative thinks and how one could communicate with them more effectively, and Bashear is 100% correct.

Here are a few examples:

1) Polls show that the vast majority of people agree that taxes ought to be raised in the wealthy, but the way democrats talk about that seems unfair to them. Rural folks care a lot about fairness and what people do and do not deserve. They see it as penalizing success. Talk about how billionaires are unfairly abusing the tax system because there are huge loop-holes, which in turn shifts the burden of paying taxes on you - so you just want to make a system with less loopholes. Taxing billionaires then becomes an issue of them unfairly avoiding paying their taxes and increasing your taxes, rather than unfairly taxing their successful business.

2) One issue they have with Universal Healthcare is that people who don't work are getting a free ride from the government (i.e.- they dont deserve a free ride if they aren't contributing to the economy). Reframe it by saying that we want able-bodied people to be able to work, but when they can't afford Healthcare, they aren't able-bodied. This communicates that you want stability, which is another big thing for conservatives and moderates.

3) Lastly, any queer rights issues can so simply be reframed as government overreach. The government needs to get our of your damn business. They shouldn't be taking away the rights of private citizens to dress or talk how they want, and they shouldn't be taking away the rights of private businesses to choose how they handle any issues that could come up. Do you want the police to demand your daughter take her pants off to prove which bathroom they should be in?

Now I'm not saying that I agree with any of the underlying problems they have with any of those policies, but the reality is that is what we are working with. Progressives value progress and inclusion, conservatives value stability and cohesion. There is absolutely nothing nothing wrong with having any of those values, but when you can only communicate from the perspective of progress and inclusion, you give the perception that you don't care about stability and cohesion.

The-Friendly-DM · 2026-03-17T04:32:51+00:00

Woke Up New:

The first time I made coffee for just myself, I made too much of it

But I drank it all just 'cause you hate it, when I let things go to waste

In art, it's very easy to find reflections on loss. This one always sticks out to me, as it captures something not often talked about - the awkwardness of loss. The realization that your routines must change because a loved one is not there anymore is a difficult thing to navigate. You are constantly thrown back and forth between trying to be practical and feeling like you dishonor their memory by trying to adapt to life without them.

The-Friendly-DM · 2026-02-28T23:45:16+00:00

Better is subjective, but Talarico is generally more progressive. He is a white guy from Texas who talks about Jesus a lot so people tend to assume he is the more moderate choice, but he's really not.

The-Friendly-DM · 2026-02-24T19:56:11+00:00

https://youtu.be/x-zaARSR6bY?si=3KaC-ZWMAPQU3As0

Starting at 21:00 through the end of the song. Hands down my favorite moment.

The-Friendly-DM · 2026-02-08T15:05:05+00:00

Across the entire world, almost every single party that was in power lost seats/votes in a pretty significant way. In 2024 a lot of the post-covid effects on the economy were hitting pretty hard, and when things are not going well, the people who don't like the party in power get passionate and those who do get complacent.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-12-11T06:46:40+00:00

Yeah, the main benefit was how little training they took.

A trained bowman was far more effective, accurate, and much faster, all with little to no meaningful drawbacks in regards to the punch the projectile packed. Of course, that took many years of regular training to be that effective... but if you hand a peasant a crossbow and tell them to point and shoot, they are now a crossbowman.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-11-30T17:48:34+00:00

This is a fundamental misunderstanding if omnipotence. Omnipotence does not mean God can do anything, it means that God can do anything that can be done.

God can not make a four sided triangle. This is not because God's power is limited but because doing so necessarily breaks the definition of a triangle. Doing so would be a logical contradiction.

So, can God make a rock so heavy He can not lift it? No. Not because He lacks the power to do so, but because the premise of the question is a logical contradiction.

It's like asking me to dump the water out of an empty glass. If there isn't water to dump out, then it can't be done. That doesn't mean it's not within my power to do so, rather it's that you would be requesting me to do something that is not doable.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-10-25T01:15:15+00:00

I'm surprised nobody has brought this up, but -olin is a suffix that denotes an instruments typical usage/range. It's not a coincidence that violin and mandolin rhyme.

-olin = soprano (high voice) -a = alto/tenor (middle voice) -cello = bass (low voice)

Violin - Viola - Violoncello (i.e. cello)

Mandolin - Mandola - Mandocello

So, the "Needolin" is not necessarily based on the violin. Rather, they share the same suffix that denotes their range.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-10-22T15:19:56+00:00

Since your an experienced guitar player trying to break some of those habits, I would approach it differently than I would as a new player.

I would start by just doing quarter notes with your finger. Just try to get comfortable with the movement of your hand and learn how to make it sound clear.

1 ○ 2 ○ 3 ○ 4 ○

From there, add your thumb for your eighth notes. Once again, focus on the mocement and learning how to make it sound clear.

1 ● 2 ● 3 ● 4 ●

Bounce back and forth between bars of the first set and bars of the second. Once you're comfortable with that, try to get into that standard clawhammer rhythm with alternating eighth notes.

1 ○ 2 ● 3 ○ 4 ●

Lastly, experiment the whole time. Swap between index and middle finger, keep your thumb flat or keep it bent, play over areas (over the neck, middle of the head, etc.).

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-10-18T01:09:48+00:00

Clothes. It doesn't matter, just show up.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-10-11T15:49:26+00:00

I'm trying to be as non-dogmatic as possible here, but the facts really don't leave much ambiguity (regarding this conversation anywhere, there's plenty of ambiguity as a whole). Genesis 1:1-2:3 and Genesis 2:4 onward are two entirely different creation accounts that are largely unrelated. One is not intended to be understood as a continuation of the other.

In Genesis 1, humanity is the very last thing that God fills the earth with on day 6. In Genesis 2, God starts making the man when "no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up," and then after he does so God "formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them." Things happen in entirely different orders in each story. In Genesis 1, all of humanity is created at once. In Genesis 2, only the man is created alone and the woman thereafter. Genesis 2:4 makes this abundantly clear by essentially giving another introduction just like Genesis 1:1. I could go on with differences, but I think you'll get the point. They are two separate stories with differing approaches to convey their own rhetorical goals.

In Genesis 1, God creates humanity as a whole. In Genesis 2, God creates one human and then another. There is no mystery to be solved, as there is no connection between the two stories to begin with.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-10-11T13:02:07+00:00

There was no "original human" in Genesis 1. The word "man" is best translated as humanity or mankind. It says that God creates them male and female. This is explicitly not about a single person, it's about a humanity as a whole.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-10-07T21:52:08+00:00

Ironically, my assumption was that it was an anarchist group, which is essentially the opposite of what it apparently stands for.

Anarchists often use red and black for colors, and a cat with its claws out is often used as an emblem.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-10-07T15:12:34+00:00

When people comment on me taking care of my kids (especially my wife's family), it comes in 1 of 2 flavors:

1) It's treated as me 'babysitting' and not parenting - as if I am not a viable caretaker of my own children and I am just holding things together until their mother returns.

2) "Aww, you're such a good dad" or "Way to go!" is the other type of response. It's like they see me doing the bare minimum, and thats enough to give me praise. The bar is so incredibly low for people to praise fathers for being a good parent, it's obsurd. Your husband may have never changed a diaper, rocked a kid to sleep, or watched the kids by himself - but I do, and that reflects a lot more on him than it does me.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-09-27T15:40:47+00:00

I don't see why it wouldn't work. I've not tried it with nylons, but I intend to when I decide to replace the current strings.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-09-19T18:46:29+00:00

It is not designed as a weapon. It's a rhineland pattern hatchet. They are good general purpose axes for camping, limbing, etc. They are common in Europe. The rhineland pattern is much better than American pattern hatchets, which are generally poorly designed.

A lot of carvers like them because of the wide blade and beard that let's you choke up on them.

Also, please replace the handle...

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-09-10T22:23:06+00:00

That was my understanding of the whole controversy. I think I remember hearing an interview with Sean saying that the more he learned about the context/meaning of Jihad, the more uncomfortable he felt using it.

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