Ms Debbie P's 2007 Shop Tour and Inspection #17: Thursday Tour @ the shop of YorkshireStewart

Great shop Stewart! Good work Douglas and Debbie! Your travels are impressive – regular globe trotters.

Stewart – what’s the plane on the bench under the #6 Fore plane?

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

The trip was wonderful and I really enjoyed touring your shop.
The organization of hardware was inspirational.

Thank you for letting us come visit – and for the wonderful cuppa’
:)

Congrats on the Pass

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Neat shop, Stewart and thanks to Douglas and Debbie.

-- Thos. Angle

It’s a right manly shop, Stewart! I especially like the high-tech labeling system on your hardware storage,

Debbie, you must be subjected to very close scrutiny when you go through airport security in that outfit. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Stewart, a great shop and great work comes out of it. Thanks for the visit. And Douglas and Debbie thanks for being our guides.

Charles I thought she hitched a ride on Santa’s sleigh.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Stewart

Quite an organized workspace. If you can’t find it here, you don’t have one!

Great space.

Good job Ms. Executive Director, and Mr.Travel Agent Director (Doug, “the bordnerizer”).

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

Quite the work place Mr. Stewart, a lot of very beautiful woodwork exits that shop. You should be very proud. Deb and Doug an outstanding job “over there” showing the wonderful digs of a wonderful woodworker. My congrats to both of you. mike

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

Nice tour guys! Congrats on the pass, Stewart!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Company Jet fellas, the Company Jet :)

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

nice shop and nice organization wall… I too am taking notes (and making totes)

I forgot the old-time measuring devices were marked out in vagaries and colloquialisms.

a hairs bredth, a baby step, half a step, spitting distance, the aforementioned “just enough to swing a cat”, and a stones throw.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Scott, make me a tote too! I need one for a #5. Say, wait a minute, I’m a woodworker, I could probably make my own (Thanks, cckeele for reminding me)!
I bought one of the Woodcraft knob and tote kits in bright red lacquer some years ago before I had a table saw and the whole arsenal. Time for them to go…

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Scott, so just how much room do you need to swing a tabby? (Sorry Deb)

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

A good run for Santa’s Workshop, and they said the Northpole, huh..

-- All donations should be made out to me and in the form of wood or tools ~Chris

I’ll bet it gets suitably chilly there by the sea. I was shocked to learn that Stewart’s shop is north of Amsterdam (Like I said, daydreaming about something other that geography in class).

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

You know, if ya tie their tails together, you can swing two cats at the same time!

Nice shop Stewart! I’d love to visit England sometime just to quaff a couple of yards in an olde pub!

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

Ya know what they say…. There’s more than one way to swing a cat.

-- JP, Shelbyville, KY

It’s a strange feeling – being so exposed; revealing ones secret places to the world!! I must thank Douglas and Debbie for their visit and kind comments. I must say it was painless – I hardly knew they’d been.

CharlieM – I’m glad you think it’s manly.

Dorje – I’ll get the details of the plane tomorrow.

Lee – i do try to be organised but the timber offcuts do take over at times.

Scottb – Thanks for the reminder about measurements! Do you have “A good yard” meaning a little bit over an yard? On a different scale, the media use football pitches for area; then for bigger areas: “The size of Wales”. Height is in Nelson’s Columns or Saint Paul’s Cathedral. Bulk can be “A slack handful” Enough already.

Thanks to all for your comments .

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business. http://www.folksy.com/shops/TreeGems

Thanks for the additional anglophilic unit conversion data Stewart.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Dorje asked about the plane in the picture & I finally got around to replying. There are no markings on the plane body but the cap iron is marked Alexr. Mathieson of Glasgow. The iron itself says WP Ward Warranted cast steel. I imagine the plane must be a Mathieson but it would be nice if it was marked as such. It’s 15.5” long x 2.75” wide and has a nice feel to it.

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business. http://www.folksy.com/shops/TreeGems

Slightly off topic but I thought some may be interested to know that the saying “Not enough room to swing a cat” has nothing to do with tabbies, it refers to the “Cat o’ Nine Tails” which was the whip of choice for exposing an antipodean convicts backbone back in the good ol’ days. It’s also the source of the saying “let the cat out of the bag” because once the whip was unbagged some poor bugger was in for 200 strokes of hell.

We banned the Cat o’ Nine Tails from use in public schools back in the mid seventies. :)

Great workshop Stewart !

=:^•

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

nice piece of history info, Wayne.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)