O*P*E Theatre Aisle at Home Depot
Scanning the shelves looking for something when 3 customers come by (and miraculously
a store employee!). A play in three acts.
Customer #1 (a tall guy with a big, booming voice, accompanied by a silent woman): You got any STIHL (pronounced 'still')!?
Employee: ACE Hardware.
Customer #1: You don' have STIHL? Why not?
Employee: STIHL won't sell through Home Depot.
Customer #1: Gotta be STIHL! (never specified if he was looking for a saw, string trimmer, leaf blower, . . . ).
Customer #2 Man: (man and woman, assumed to be married) 'She' needs a new string trimmer. Gotta be gas.
Employee: Have you thought about battery?
Customer #2 Man: We tried some battery stuff, it was junk.
Me: What brand?
Customer #2 Man: Craftsman. Batteries did not last at all.
Customer #2 Woman: And it's gotta be a straight shaft. My son-in-law does landscaping and says straight shaft trimmers are better.
Me: I am not that tall (she is a couple of inches shorter) and find that the bent shaft trimmers are more comfortable for shorter people (Employee and I demonstrate how it affects posture).
Customer #2 Woman: Nah, my son-in-law will kill me if I don't buy a straight shaft trimmer.
Customer #3: I'm gonna try a cheap electric chainsaw. See if they work.
Me: (after showing him that the cost of a bar and chain is almost as much as the saw he is considering, and mentioning how HD sells Homelite electric chainsaws, but rents Makitas) You know the phrase ' you get what you pay for', right?
Customer #3: I just want a cheap saw.
Philbert
Is anyone familiar with the line-x spray on bed liner?
https://linex.com/bedliners
Supposed to be quite a phenomenal coating but who knows?
The plastic liner in my ute (we don't call 'em trucks down here) has cracked in the corners. Apart from that it has handled everything I've thrown at it. If the line-x coating is as durable and tenacious as they claim, then I wonder if it might be a better option than a plastic liner on the next ute. But I tend to take the claims of any coatings supplier/applicator as a very rough guide only until I learn of real-world history of average users.
Are you hand cutting your dove tails? If so that's pretty amazing for sure!Slowly but surely
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Are you hand cutting your dove tails? If so that's pretty amazing for sure!
No not quite, lol. Don’t think that water ever gets above 40*, arms and face rinse is about as deep as I go.serene!
warm enough that time of year for a dip?...
No not quite, lol. Don’t think that water ever gets above 40*, arms and face rinse is about as deep as I go.
No. Bought a Leigh jig from Canada a few years ago but life got in the way so am trying to figure it out now I finally have some time to use it. Probably 20 years ago I made a chest of drawers with hand cut dovetails in my lunch breaks on a building job from timber scrounged from the job site skip bin. Decided back then hand cut DT is a skill I'll never really master. I think I had to use epoxy on some of the jointsAre you hand cutting your dove tails? !
taNice work!
Thanks. I know just enough to get frustrated at how clueless i am and get myselfc into but not out of trouble. Have pallet racks full of dry timber scrounged over the years and never enough time to clear them.nice work!; you... imo... are quite the cabinetmaker!
how can they sell those benches for that price. It would cost three times that for me to make one like it for myself. Castors is a nice addition. Do any of them lock so you can push against the bench without chasing it around the workshop? Bought an entire kitchen second hand for a few hundy about a decade ago and repurposed the cabinets and bench tops as mobile benches and shed storage. Works ok but always wanted to make a proper bench like yours but never enough time.View attachment 741500 View attachment 741501
workbench should be just fine for saw maintenance, reworks, chain sharpening etc. no dent, nicks or grease allowed! and will be able to roll around. the casters are from HF furniture dolly, also on sale. $15.99 for 9.99. $2.50 ea for a new, rubber wheeled ball bearing swivel caster workx for me. I have a matching toolbox in wood, green felt drawers, etc... I am thinking of giving it a new home on top of bench.
I’ll second black birch. What does it smell like?Nice work!
Anyone know what kind of tree this is? Got it in a load so no leaves for a hint. It loves to splinter when split and splits hard. The weight of it is nuts it's so heavy it makes oak seem light.In the top picture its the silver bark piece
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