screwdriver #2: replacement

A name is a name is a name. But a warranty is something that you can stand behind. 1000 time the previous use though still equals 0.

Karson

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

Dear NHHT (New Hampshire Hand Tools),

Thanks for the confirmation and explanation of my replacement and its delivery method. Hand carried, impressive! I’ll be sure to meet the courier at the airport. Looks great and I can’t wait to put it to the test. I only hope that multiple uses combined with sweat and pressure to not destroy your signature.

Please send along a catalog with all your other tools available, I’m sure I’ll be interested. Can’t beat this service.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

No prob… now I just gotta get this over to your parents house in time for their flight!..

I fully expect the signature to wear off over time – a testament to the durability of said tool (and the ph level of your paws)

-- 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/

Hi Scott;
—-well not sure about the flight going out today as last time I looked out, there was snow coming our way!!!
Have a good flight and bring me back some ‘juniper wood’ from down there.

GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

Actually my in-laws are heading down for Easter… Rob can you give them some juniper and some Osage for me?

Thanks!

-- 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/

I’ll see what I can scare up. My cedars aren’t very big so I’ll have to send something small but I’ll see if I can find some pieces that “talk” to me. No problem on the Osage-Orange that stuff is in all shapes and sizes. I’ll try to send a selection, within airline weight limits of course.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

Wow cherry wood cordless screwdirvers! I’m cracking up over here.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

Rob – I’m picturing that “something small” in the form of a twig or something haha

Osage-Orange – I just planted one of those last year.

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

Thanks Rob, Fill up a carryon (or whatever you can.) could make some small projects, or turn some things with whatever you care to send up… a second mallet perhaps? FIgure I’ll take advantage of all the space they’ll have left in their luggage after bringing down the screwdriver and all those easter eggs (if they don’t get confiscated).

Otherwise I’ll try to talk you into filling up one of those $8.00 prepaid boxes from the post office. – I wonder if people who hate their mailman fill those up with bricks. “Hey what’s in this box?” “Oh we’re moving the house, one brick at a time.” ;)

-- 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/

yah there should be lots of room in the luggage after that screwdriver is removed!!

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

yes, but all the bubblewrap, padding, security, countermeasures…. actually it’s in one of those large cases with a foam cut out in the center… you know that they carry cameras, guns or plutonium in (in the movies). He’ll keep the foam of course and can fill that puppy up with wood for the return trip!

-- 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/

I’ve looked & looked. Where is the battery compartment?

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

just unscrew the copper piece Dick, can use the good ol duracell or rechargable ones, though It runs nearly forever on a single charge!

-- 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/

Ms Debbie – Planted an Osage orange hmm, that’s cool. I don’t think anyone in this area would ever plant one. So many of the uninformed consider them a trash tree with all their thorns and large “horse apple” fruits. It is some of the strongest wood I have encountered though with beautiful color, no staining required. Good for you planting one, they all have to start somewhere.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

I guess you either get a male tree or a female tree that will have fruit. I don’t know which I have, yet.

I saw some Osage Orange wood at the wood show – beautiful stuff!!!

I originally planted the tree in my yard to add to the “retreat” effect of my property, symbolizing the “thorns of life” surrounded by the beauty of life, a part of the beauty of life, etc.

When I bought it I had to read up on it and there is quite the history to the tree and I now love it even more. I hope that we can train it to grow mostly upwards rather than sprawling out, grabbing anyone without 20 feet of it.

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

If you don’t get the fruit, you’ll get the one with pollen. I’ve heard that nursery’s sell a lot more male than female trees, because people don’t want to rake up all the fruit or nuts. (or pull up seedlings from everywhere… I think this is making people even more miserable (allergies – I never used to have them) We have a female maple on one side of the house, and two male ones on the other. I’ll take the seeds over pollen anyday!

-- 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/

this tree was the only one that he had but you can be sure that I’ll be looking for the “matching set”. Hey – if you are going to be poked at, you might as well go all out!!

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

Just out of curosity, how long does it take you to make one of these guys? It looks like a fun project. Also, where did you get your driver parts?

I like the look of Osage Orange. Tim Yoder made some interesting weed pots using old burned Osage Orange fence posts on one of his PBS wood turning show episodes.

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

Wayne,

These don’t take very long at all – apart from waiting for the epoxy to set on the collet and the ferrule. You can buy a kit for about $6 from woodcraft comes with all the pieces and instructions, or you can grab one of the $4 orange handled ones from the Big Box store, take a hacksaw blade to the handle (to free the collet) and you’ve got everything you need. (faster, and saves on shipping cost too!

Then its just a matter of drilling a hole deep enough for the shaft, and a counterbore for the collet. Epoxy that in place – wait. Make sure not to get any epoxy down in the hole, or in the nut. I let them dry overnight upside down. Probably will need to take a file to the hole a bit – keep testing until the shart fits. Then, with the shaft in place, chuck it on a drill chuck on the lathe as low as you can, and turn away. Measure out and test fit for the ferrule. Epoxy that into place, wait…. then turn to the final shape.

Actual working time, less than an hour. total time… a couple days.

There was a brief write up of these in an old woodturning magazine – dating back to before there were kits. If you have any questions, drop me a line and I’ll do my best to explain it, if re-reading this and the previous blog entry (or project posts for both sets I’ve made don’t give you enough info… I may have enough pictures for a step by step if you need.

-- 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/

It arrived on Friday. I can’t wit to test it… Very nice indeed. Thanks again.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

Hey Rob,

I used mine to put the hinges on the latest box. 8 whole screws – that’s like, infinity percent better than the first one, and it still looks brand new! I hope yours is at least as good!

-- 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/