Odds and Ends 151: Viewer Mail, Planer Jacks, Literature, Tools

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Odds and Ends 151: Viewer Mail, Planer Jacks, Literature, Tools

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35 thoughts on “Odds and Ends 151: Viewer Mail, Planer Jacks, Literature, Tools”

  3. Love your videos but listening to your challenges makes me think… You need to take (at least one) apprentice. Not a "camera-person" but an actual apprentice. Your local community college or college should have a ready list of qualified machinists. Let them work in exchange for you training them, or your state may pay all/part of their salaries.

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  12. Keith, seeing those prints arrive on your workbench, it's interesting to think just how much of the artwork I've been obsessing over… first had to find its way to you there in Georgia, across catalogs and brochures, old ink printed on worn paper — to be carefully scanned, and freely shared back into the world on Vintage Machinery — for me to someday comb through it, spending untold hours in Photoshop to bring back a bit of life and color… all to create new prints, fresh ink on crisp paper — that I've now shared back to the person and the place where so much of it started. There's just some sort of subtle poetry in all of that. Glad you enjoyed them, and appreciate you taking a minute to share them with everyone here. My grandfather Wallace (Mr. Sawdust, as he was best known) would be thrilled to know his story's still unfolding among those he once called "a very special breed of people" — fellow woodworkers, lifelong students, and craftsman of every sort. In the dedication of his book, he wrote something simple and profound, to his wife of 50 years: "To my wife — who understood me, and forgave me for it." — so much said, in so few words. Happy anniversary to you! — David

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  21. When welding, grinding, forge work, wearing 100% cotton is the safe thing to do. Polyester will turn you into a funeral pyre. Cotton will smolder or the fuzz will burn off and you are relatively safe.
    Happy Thanks Giving to you.

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  29. Not gonna lie in this comment, so here it comes.

    I’ve been following the Tally-Ho restoration since day one. And when it came time for the capstan project I was guided to a couple other channels.

    Watched Dave Clark make the form. Followed that over to Windy Hill foundry with the pouring of the cap, then it came to you Keith.

    Once the other two channels were done with their parts I tuned out, and I’m sure many others did as well based off their views pre and post tally ho involvement.

    But yours has kept me. Your channels are informative, engaging, and as a big part of it, have you in them. You make them more engaging and informative. You don’t repeat yourself over and over, have to make 30 attempts to get something done, and constantly have new content, whether it be the same project or not, it feels new and fresh each time.

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