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Why do stuff like this?????

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Why do stuff like this?????
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Why do some people like me make things like this?

We could buy one, we could even get a cheap one, instead we see a broke bevel at a thrift shop for
.50 cents and go home and make a new one outta the parts.

The blank the rule and the brass.

-- Measure once cut twice....oh wait....ooops.


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Mike

268 posts in 517 days


posted 512 days ago

I took a piece of oak 1×1x2, the brass I had, I just robbed the rule from the old one.

Now I gotta cut the brass

-- Measure once cut twice....oh wait....ooops.

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thetimberkid

1944 posts in 603 days


posted 512 days ago

Cant wait to see the finished item!

Rhanks for the post

Callum

-- For wood working podcasts with a twist check out http://thetimberkid.com/

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bobdurnell

197 posts in 797 days


posted 512 days ago

Mike, that’s a good question. I’ve done the same thing too! And with the same tool. I guess we like the recognition. In 1985 I made some oversized bevels and I sent one to Norm Abrams and it’s hanging on the wall of the New Yankee Workshop. I’ve seen him use it too! Yours is going to be great. bob

-- bobdurnell, Santa Ana California.

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SteveKorz

2030 posts in 614 days


posted 512 days ago

Mike, I am JUST LIKE THAT!! My problem is that I accumulate things and don’t get them done or fixed. My wife and I are in the process (today actually) of doing a mass Exodus with junk. I can afford to buy it, but just think that I need to waste time to attempt to fix or restore it…. I dunno… maybe I need to go to JA- Junkers Annonymous… lol.

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

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Mike

268 posts in 517 days


posted 512 days ago

The prolblem Steve is how much ya gonna buy back youself?

I Picked up a Craftsman scroll saw at a thrift store for 10 bucks, a benchtop 4 inch belt sander for 10 also.

Today I just got a free Craftsman level, It was in a house fire of a friend, it smells like smoke and has some rust but will clean up nice.

I also picked up a Cigar Humidor. It hold 300+ cigars and has an inlayed cigar leaf on top, the leaf is 8 by 10 inches. 10 dollars. :)

The scroll saw needed a bolt, the sander needed a sanding belt.

-- Measure once cut twice....oh wait....ooops.

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brianinpa

1365 posts in 623 days


posted 512 days ago

I am glad to know I am not the only person afflicted with this disease!

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

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Mike

268 posts in 517 days


posted 512 days ago

I got the top brass done and together need some fine tuning (filing)

and then while messing around I took some scrap and made a push block, scrap 2×6 and a piece off a cutting board, srewed together so I can keep the handle after the block gets chewed up.

-- Measure once cut twice....oh wait....ooops.

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SteveKorz

2030 posts in 614 days


posted 512 days ago

If this is a disease, then I’ve got it in my bones…... lol…

I burned an entire truckload of “stuff” from my barn today… and found stuff I forgot I had. I’m not even close to being done (geesh!). If you find the cure, shoot me an email…lol.

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

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Chris

1470 posts in 891 days


posted 512 days ago

Nice work… I love homemade or semi-homemade tools.

-- Chris

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Grumpy

14951 posts in 751 days


posted 511 days ago

You say why, I say why not. Great work Mike.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

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jeanmarc

1751 posts in 616 days


posted 487 days ago

Great work Mike.

-- jeanmarc manosque france

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