tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128369950831173916.post3255407469351579825..comments2024-03-01T05:31:44.635-05:00Comments on The Village Carpenter: New Tools: Gadgets or Godsends?Kari Hultmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01224053263659415329noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128369950831173916.post-52284644601070671862010-08-02T08:06:18.456-04:002010-08-02T08:06:18.456-04:00Dear spammers,
Kindly take a hike.
Thanks,
Kar...Dear spammers, <br /><br />Kindly take a hike. <br /><br />Thanks,<br />KariKari Hultmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01224053263659415329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128369950831173916.post-76613306513362052242010-08-02T06:15:45.951-04:002010-08-02T06:15:45.951-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.academichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01520616376879851189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128369950831173916.post-54902391538007852892009-11-20T05:05:39.401-05:002009-11-20T05:05:39.401-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128369950831173916.post-17431125784481082712009-01-10T20:45:00.000-05:002009-01-10T20:45:00.000-05:00I love gadgets, any gadget, all gadgets. I'd like...I love gadgets, any gadget, all gadgets. I'd like one of each, at least. I'm in a quest for the ultimate gadget which I believe will be the power tool version of the Swiss Army Knife. Yes, there are lots of tools with multi functions, that's fine. I want all those multi functions and all the multi tools, combined!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128369950831173916.post-51139930617322152512008-11-19T16:59:00.000-05:002008-11-19T16:59:00.000-05:00Like Crows we drag shiny objects back to our nests...Like Crows we drag shiny objects back to our nests. Many of which have little or no use. "It sure seemed like a good idea at the time!" I tend to buy tools that aid or improve the quality or speed of my work. Many gadget tools and jigs are efforts to avoid learning skills. How many dovetail jigs, guides and gauges are there out there for a job that requires 4 tools (saw, chisel, mallet, marking Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128369950831173916.post-8320651160305078202008-11-19T16:48:00.000-05:002008-11-19T16:48:00.000-05:00If you frequent tool auctions and flea markets, yo...If you frequent tool auctions and flea markets, you can see more than enough of the peculiar patented gadgets from the 19th C industrial explosion. Many are rare because they broke or were failures! I have an idea that in todays market, we are not outdoing ourselves, at least in comparison to the 19th C inventors. Look for today's tools in the next century's tool auctions...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128369950831173916.post-81507000019158841412008-11-19T16:21:00.000-05:002008-11-19T16:21:00.000-05:00As always, I enjoy reading everyone's points o...As always, I enjoy reading everyone's points of view. Thank you for the thoughtful comments. <BR/><BR/>Rob, thanks for the heads up on the F&C issue. I'll look forward to your shop tour.<BR/><BR/>Bill, would you believe I didn't even notice the chamfer plane or the T&G plane until I saw them in my photo? I was shooting the inlay tools. There was so much to take in, I almost Kari Hultmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01224053263659415329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128369950831173916.post-68021992042364810922008-11-19T13:30:00.000-05:002008-11-19T13:30:00.000-05:00Kari - Thank you for the report on Lie Nielsen'...Kari - Thank you for the report on Lie Nielsen's new offerings. I am surprised with them offering the Tonque & Groove and the Chamfer plane. I quess I was expecting them to move in the direction that Lee Valley was going with the rabbet planes and ...(insert coming surprise whatever it is). In further reflection it does not make sense that Lee Valley & Lie Nielsen remain in lockstepAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128369950831173916.post-13636996417702931382008-11-19T12:21:00.000-05:002008-11-19T12:21:00.000-05:00Coupla points:1. Saw jointers of this sort were pa...Coupla points:<BR/><BR/>1. Saw jointers of this sort were particularly marketed to the lumber trade for jointing the big toothed crosscut saws. No one cared if the blade was scratched a little... the idea was to maintain the angle and protect the fingers.<BR/><BR/>2. The Stanley Chute Board plane and it's like show up in printers catalogs. The intent was for forming the boxwood blocks to hold Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128369950831173916.post-3146246104178858752008-11-19T10:59:00.000-05:002008-11-19T10:59:00.000-05:00Hi Kari - gadgets or godsend?..tricky one, you sur...Hi Kari - gadgets or godsend?..tricky one, you sure know how to pick 'em! I tend to adopt the minimalist approach (that's why I've somehow ended up with nearly 20 odd planes around my bench...note the irony) I tend to look at each job as it comes along and decide what (if anything) is needed, very often nothing is required to make it. I think it's very easy to be seduced by all Woodblokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04573880625129679293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128369950831173916.post-39233157336403794922008-11-19T08:22:00.000-05:002008-11-19T08:22:00.000-05:00I tend to be a minimalist when it comes to buying ...I tend to be a minimalist when it comes to buying tools. Not so much by conviction, but for reasons of convenience, budget, time, and space constraints. I really do prefer woodworking to tool collecting.<BR/><BR/>I think it is neat to see manufacturers play around with new ideas and even new materials. Sometime they come up with some interesting things, especially for fringe case uses and users.<Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128369950831173916.post-30088755067066979522008-11-19T08:11:00.000-05:002008-11-19T08:11:00.000-05:00Gadgets and gizmos have been around forever. Wheth...Gadgets and gizmos have been around forever. Whether or not they are worth while is, in my opinion, up to the individual and what he is trying to extract from the hand tool experience. <BR/><BR/>The Stanley 52 Chute Board could be considered a gadget, one introduced in 1905. All it was, though, was a commercially available replacement for something craftsmen had been making themselves for Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128369950831173916.post-46229752910677271292008-11-19T07:02:00.000-05:002008-11-19T07:02:00.000-05:00I don't think you need that elaborate a jig just t...I don't think you need that elaborate a jig just to joint a saw. The only ones that need to be that crazy are ones for jointing breasted saws. Besides, having that casting wrapped around your saw is liable to leave scratches, and it makes it harder to lift the file for the return stroke, and you might clip the saw teeth on the inside of the casting in the process.<BR/> The Jointmaker is an Metalworker Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13764592666915257980noreply@blogger.com