Ultimately, and as I said to Jarek some time ago, everyone is their own little tribe/species/breed. IOW, we all have the capacity, given enough time and geographical isolation, to become an entirely new/different species.
Obviously, everyone's different with different values. Why bother changing what we can't?
Sure we have our similarities and that's who we generally hang with, 'birds of a feather flock together' and all that.
The State cannot work if it blankets a kind of cookie cutter over everyone, even as a DEI cookie-cutter. It's still a cookie-cut.
It can work as a kind of natural, seagrassroots (grassroots) coral-reef diversity, but then that's not a State anymore. It's more a bunch of animals more or less acting on their own accord. You can join a school of fish like you if you wanted to, but there's no higher-echelon fish forcing you to and collecting taxes and cordoning off where you can swim and with what visa/passport, etc..
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I am now looking at wood-clamps. I like the old-fashioned wooden double-screw ones, as well as the pipe-clamps. So just the in-betweens I guess. That would be more or less F-clamps, parallel clamps and rod-clamps, yes? Got any ideas?
They say you can never have enough clamps, but then there are those who suggest, with the good qualification, that you can never have enough *good* clamps.
I guess it depends on what we want to do. Furniture? Timberframe houses? Boats?
Hey Zazzy, on clamps, wooden double screw clamps are handy, pipe clamps too. You are correct in saying the best clamps are those most suitable for the type work you're doing. Even inexpensive plastic squeeze clamps that work by tension.
In a perfect world, glueing & clamping, or joining by pegs or dowels is my personal preference - no nails. This relates to furniture.
On timberframe, you can use a long loop of rope and twist and twist and twist with a piece of 2x4 lumber, to draw the pieces together to join them. One person can do it. It's simple engineering, but you have to be creative. You have plenty of both - problem-solving intellect and creativity. Make it fun.
Thanks for the tips/tricks. I like the rope twist-- 'heritage no-nonsense'.
Speaking of which, in my research, WRT timbeframe, I was reminded that the posts' peg-holes are deliberately drilled a little bit further in from the tenons' to draw them further in as the pegs are hammered in.
My general aesthetic, or whatever you call that, also includes trying to avoid nails where at all possible, even glue.
Anyway, while it's still a bit bewildering, I'm slowly wrapping my head around it. I might be about to buy a Japanese saw tomorrow if I can get out of bed early enough... Oh wait, it's today already. Never mind.
Incidentally, if you ever wanted to post pics of your work or tools or whatever comes to mind, feel free to let me know.
Alan - you lost me.
Ultimately, and as I said to Jarek some time ago, everyone is their own little tribe/species/breed. IOW, we all have the capacity, given enough time and geographical isolation, to become an entirely new/different species.
Obviously, everyone's different with different values. Why bother changing what we can't?
Sure we have our similarities and that's who we generally hang with, 'birds of a feather flock together' and all that.
The State cannot work if it blankets a kind of cookie cutter over everyone, even as a DEI cookie-cutter. It's still a cookie-cut.
It can work as a kind of natural, seagrassroots (grassroots) coral-reef diversity, but then that's not a State anymore. It's more a bunch of animals more or less acting on their own accord. You can join a school of fish like you if you wanted to, but there's no higher-echelon fish forcing you to and collecting taxes and cordoning off where you can swim and with what visa/passport, etc..
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I am now looking at wood-clamps. I like the old-fashioned wooden double-screw ones, as well as the pipe-clamps. So just the in-betweens I guess. That would be more or less F-clamps, parallel clamps and rod-clamps, yes? Got any ideas?
They say you can never have enough clamps, but then there are those who suggest, with the good qualification, that you can never have enough *good* clamps.
I guess it depends on what we want to do. Furniture? Timberframe houses? Boats?
Hey Zazzy, on clamps, wooden double screw clamps are handy, pipe clamps too. You are correct in saying the best clamps are those most suitable for the type work you're doing. Even inexpensive plastic squeeze clamps that work by tension.
In a perfect world, glueing & clamping, or joining by pegs or dowels is my personal preference - no nails. This relates to furniture.
On timberframe, you can use a long loop of rope and twist and twist and twist with a piece of 2x4 lumber, to draw the pieces together to join them. One person can do it. It's simple engineering, but you have to be creative. You have plenty of both - problem-solving intellect and creativity. Make it fun.
How's your Funktional Furniture going BTW?
Thanks for the tips/tricks. I like the rope twist-- 'heritage no-nonsense'.
Speaking of which, in my research, WRT timbeframe, I was reminded that the posts' peg-holes are deliberately drilled a little bit further in from the tenons' to draw them further in as the pegs are hammered in.
My general aesthetic, or whatever you call that, also includes trying to avoid nails where at all possible, even glue.
Anyway, while it's still a bit bewildering, I'm slowly wrapping my head around it. I might be about to buy a Japanese saw tomorrow if I can get out of bed early enough... Oh wait, it's today already. Never mind.
Incidentally, if you ever wanted to post pics of your work or tools or whatever comes to mind, feel free to let me know.