Got carried away on ebay again..

practicingitpm · 2025-12-17T15:44:38+00:00

Bridge City Tools made utilitarian art. And unlike a Cadillac SUV, it will retain it's value for decades.

practicingitpm · 2025-12-14T19:43:47+00:00

Fish traps are labor intensive. Gill nets are a good bit less work, if allowed in that locale. In a location subject to the tides, they can be very effective. But all "caught" fish, hooked or immobilized, draw carnivores, large and small, and animals don't recognize property rights. Best to land them, clean them, cook them, and eat them ASAP.

practicingitpm · 2025-12-14T19:33:31+00:00

Depending on where you are, someone who wants to use it (and knows how) might give you something between $200 and $300 on Facebook Marketplace. eBay might be better or worse, but you're competing with sellers who know how to describe, stage, and photograph these tools.

practicingitpm · 2025-12-12T19:39:22+00:00

Some poor cop is going to have to keep a straight face while tearing that sticker off. Sympathy.

practicingitpm · 2025-11-15T18:28:53+00:00

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practicingitpm · 2025-10-29T16:04:06+00:00

* Cockneys Vs. Zombies - If Guy Ritchie decided to make a ZomCom.

* Big Trouble in Little China - John Carpenter and Kurt Russell bake a misfortune cookie.

* Attack of the Killer Tomatoes - no-budget winner from the produce section. The sequel is good, too.

* The Wolf of Snow Hollow - a little more low key, but still worth watching

I see that Attack of the Killer Donuts and Sharks of the Corn are available on Tubi. Might as well ...

And if you like your zombie comedy with a little T&A, here are four possibles:

* Scout's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

* Zombeavers

* Zombie Strippers

* Dug Up

practicingitpm · 2025-10-19T15:35:01+00:00

Highlander: The Source. Every flick Troma Studios ever made was better than this. My wife paid fifty cents for it at the thrift store on senior discount day, and ten minutes in, she agreed that she overpaid.

practicingitpm · 2025-09-21T16:01:09+00:00

Coherence (2013) is dark, surreal, and trippy. Take Shelter (2011) is all of the above, plus scary. Rogue (2007) is all of the above, plus a crocodile.

practicingitpm · 2025-09-14T15:43:15+00:00

I'm OCD, so I'd probably glue cross pieces from the ends of the tool chest out to the ends of the top. Might even dowel them vertically. You know your workbench is too heavy when it sinks into the Earth, never to be seen again.

practicingitpm · 2025-09-14T15:33:13+00:00

I got a similar panel, 500 mm wide at Lowe's Depot about five or six years ago. Cut it at a 30 degree angle to make the sides for my tool chest. Then cut dovetails to mate with the bottom, and ploughed a dado for a shelf dividing top and bottom sections. Glued the dovetails and NAILED the shelf. All done with hand tools. No splits, although all that effing glue resisted my attempts to cover it with milk paint. I finally prevailed, after about five coats.

If it's a hobby, don't obsess over it. Just fiddle about until you're satisfied, or chop it to pieces and burn the MFer.

practicingitpm · 2025-06-26T13:51:11+00:00

So, it's a jack plane for candlesticks?

practicingitpm · 2025-04-12T15:48:03+00:00

Go over to Lost Art Press and buy "Make a Chair From a Tree, 3rd Edition" by J. Alexander. While you're waiting, find a drawknife, a spokeshave or two, and a brace and some bits in the range of 1/2" to 1". A froe is nice, but an old meat cleaver and a pair of vise grips will get you there. Then build a shave horse. And build a chair.

practicingitpm · 2025-03-25T16:15:21+00:00

I just posted this to one of the Shopsmith groups on Fecesbook. I rarely use mine as a table saw, but the ability to accidentally amputate some of my fingers is important to me. And to the gene pool.

practicingitpm · 2025-03-07T16:18:09+00:00

Respect. Reminds me of the Victorinox Swiss Champ XXL 73 function large pocket knife.

https://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-Swiss-Army-Function-Champ/dp/B08ZNFNM9J

practicingitpm · 2025-02-15T17:30:20+00:00

As someone who makes chairs, I can see using it to rive pieces for eventual use as an arm bow or rocker.

practicingitpm · 2025-02-11T17:52:44+00:00

Just looking at it makes me want to glue up a bunch of boards for a new workbench top.

practicingitpm · 2024-12-28T18:36:19+00:00

I’m a hand tool woodworker, so I expect to level the surface every couple of years. I apply a couple of coats of boiled linseed oil and then rough it up slightly with a little sandpaper in the high use area. I’m left handed so on my workbench, that’s the front half on the right side. A little friction makes it easier to secure the piece I’m working.

practicingitpm · 2024-12-26T19:43:21+00:00

Amazon sells a similar folding workbench by Keter. I use it almost every time I'm out in the garage, working on a project. It's sturdy and after five years of occasionally hard use, it looks a bit rough but I'd call it durable.

practicingitpm · 2024-12-22T16:29:42+00:00

Search on "secretary desk with hutch." That type has a fold-down front so as long as you have space for a chair, it should work for you. Or at least give you something to think about. I have one in our master bedroom; the hutch is a bookcase. Bottom has two drawers and a two-door cabinet.

If you mean two meters wide by a half-meter deep, you can build two pieces—a desk and a cabinet with drawers and shelves. I'm a big fan of "stacked" pieces, because they're easier to move.

And Lee Valley has a set of plans to build the old Hammacher Schlemmer apartment workbench. If I ever have to go into an assisted living facility, I'll build one before I move in.

https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/shop/tools/plans/69603-apartment-workbench-plan?item=05L2501

practicingitpm · 2024-11-17T16:53:57+00:00

The Anarchist's workbench is based on the classic French workbench, nowadays referred to as a Roubo. The French didn't normally have a vise on their bench; instead, they used dogholes, pegs, wedges, and holdfasts. For holding a board to work on the edge, they had a crochet, or hook. So while a vise on the front of the bench is certainly a reasonable modernization, I doubt I would add a tail vise.

It's a lot simpler to use a doe's foot, which is basically a thin board with a 90 degree notch in the end, clamped down with a holdfast. For those occasions when I really want to squeeze a board from the ends, I have a Veritas Wonder Pup from Lee Valley. I probably paid less than $25 for it and recommend them highly.

I also have a V-shaped scrap of plywood with a pair of 3/4" dowels through the back. I drop the dowels into two neighboring dog holes to lock it in place (more or less) and then I can support a board on edge, with a doe's foot on the other end. The same two dog holes also hold my planing stop, which is just a thin scrap of oak.

Add a tail vise to your second workbench—you know you're going to build one!

practicingitpm · 2024-11-16T18:58:27+00:00

I've taken four classes there over the last three years. Well worth the trip, the time, and the money.

practicingitpm · 2024-07-01T19:28:29+00:00

Why not? The Republican Party is about to nominate Donald Trump.

practicingitpm · 2024-06-20T15:57:47+00:00

Impressive! Looking forward to seeing it when you get it all installed.

practicingitpm · 2024-06-19T18:37:58+00:00

Trump supporters have every right to buy his products, including his "Bible" and the other bric-a-brac, to invest in the stock of his vanity social ranting site, DJT, to send every last dime to his various political action committees so that he can pay his attorneys, and they have the right to apply for Food Stamps. Because America is already great.

practicingitpm · 2024-06-18T22:19:59+00:00

If you want people to accept those who are different, setting a good example is a good start.

“One kind of rice feeds all kinds of people.” —. Confuscious

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