Robert,  I cringe because when I close my eyes I can
see all my Dad's plane with their little "mushroom" topped
irons sitting in a nice straight row.  If you hit anything in my
Dad's house, you hit it with a metal hammer.  After all, Dad
 hasn't been an auto mechanic for 40+ years for nothing!.
Steve
(Just say (tm) "Don't force it! Use a BIGGER hammer!!!)

Robert Brazile brazile@a... on 10/09/97 09:47:50 AM

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To:   oldtools@l...
cc:    (bcc: Steve Bussell/Iris)
Subject:  Re: The voices within...

>I can still remember
>my Dad chopping mortises for door hinges and not having a chisel
>the right size, so he would just pop the iron out of one of the planes
>take off the cap iron and go to work.  I cringe at that now.
Just curious: why cringe? A plane iron is nothing but a wide, flat,
unhandled
chisel anyhow.
Robert
(who's been known to do similar things but hadn't realized this was
one of the cringe-inducing kind.)