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274702 | Don Schwartz <dks@t...> | 2021‑10‑14 | under bench box |
Looking at photos on our website, I noticed Brian Ward's nifty underbench box. i too have an underbench box, though not so nifty. It's a plywood box repurposed to hold the many little work-holding devices one makes and only rarely uses, but which a good Galoot hesitates to throw out. It just fits under the long rail of my bench. I put a handle on it, and find it quite handy, even if its contents are a jumble. Don -- Social networks are free, but you are the product. “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” –– John Kenneth Galbraith |
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274704 | mike.lietzow@g... | 2021‑10‑15 | Re: under bench box |
GGGs, On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 04:03 PM, Don Schwartz wrote: > ...devices > one makes and only rarely uses, but which a good Galoot hesitates to > throw out.... A good Galoot not only hesitates to throw out the devices, hesitating to throw out the box itself often proves to be prudent; the self-fulfilling prophecy of an accumulato... errrr, ummm... collector. Cheers! Mike |
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274706 | John Ruth <johnrruth@h...> | 2021‑10‑16 | Re: under bench box |
GG's Consider labeling your gages, jigs, fixtures, etc., and at least initialing them if not actually signing them. I have a wooden contraption with moving parts and a lever. I THINK my father got it from his uncle Charlie, who had been a piano maker. And, I THINK it's a device for putting the felt on piano hammers. I would rather KNOW...with certainty. The Younger you are, the more likely that you'll live long enough to forget the function of some of your labor-saving concoctions. Think ahead. John Ruth Who wishes he'd labeled more of his father's tools. |
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274708 | gary allan may | 2021‑10‑16 | Re: under bench box |
Hi John Ruth: Good advice, JR! I have a jig I made about Y2k on the back of my outdoor bench with a question (in my own handwriting) written on it: "What is this?" Several years later I wrote an answer on there, "It is a donkey's ear for chamfering the ends of 4x4s." Works a treat, too. I'm just glad I didn't throw it away, because I'd've realized what it was at the exact moment I heard the garbage truck revving off at the end of the driveway... best to all galoots everywhere; gam in OlyWA/USA Consider labeling your gages, jigs, fixtures, etc., and at least initialing them if not actually signing them. I have a wooden contraption with moving parts and a lever. I THINK my father got it from his uncle Charlie, who had been a piano maker. And, I THINK it's a device for putting the felt on piano hammers. I would rather KNOW...with certainty. The Younger you are, the more likely that you'll live long enough to forget the function of some of your labor-saving concoctions. Think ahead. John Ruth Who wishes he'd labeled more of his father's tools. |
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