Macpherson
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Thought this was interesting given the years between the recordings and the massive difference in tech.. Sound only of Jimi in '67 and Randy Hansen doing the same song 40+ years later, he's got it bang on but the you can hear just how much the recording Tech has moved on.
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Bonkers.
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Don't know anything about chippers but could it be that there's a tool for pulling the plate that attaches on to the 2 studs and has a jacking bolt in the centre. In any case from the photo I'd clean the end of the shaft with emery and lube before trying and unless it moves easily apply some heat. Or just a 2 leg puller if that would go on.
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So roughly what size are your4 year old Rainbow as a matter of interest.. I see Herons all the time and watched one last week struggling with a fish that looked to be around 5 or 6oz, cheers.
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Stihl 038 AVS Farm Boss (late ‘80s) worth saving?
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That's what I've just been looking at to sort out my fence, good to get a positive recommendation👍
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Hey Dudders I'm glad you started this thread, I've very much enjoyed the response that's emerged so far, I love seeing the amazing quality of others work, cheers.👍
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This is my Sunday night treat, watching Ted Woodford do an instrument repair or set up or whatever... by coincidence tonight he used his bending iron to repair a Gibson guitar, If you don't want to watch it all { addictive like milling } then skip to 11.20 to see it in action.. Danger.. you may end up enjoying Ted's input every Sunday night therefore causing a weekly diversion in your life.
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Yep. I assumed that, I only have a small stock fence around my garden but without the correct tools over uneven ground it's difficult to make it look tidy, it was just 2 completely different prices for the exact same tool that caught my eye, cheers.
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A maker but not of cabinets, I served my time as an engineering fitter and then set up on my own repairing old stuff and making 1 offs. so mostly all metal then in my forties just to get outside I switched to garden work, odd jobs and any tree work that I could cope with which was much less stressful and led me to working with wood, then I got the opportunity to do some stonework which I found very satisfying and did quite a lot of.. got a small pension now so trying to repair and recover and do some things for me, cheers.
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There was another thread just days ago where someone asked for an ID of this tool, and while I know there is always different quality to various brands of tools but these are probably the cheapest. The first listing is £28 and 10 listings down the same tool is £140 . fence+wire+tensioner: Search Result | eBay WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Find great deals on eBay for fence+wire+tensioner. Shop with confidence.
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Still looks like the Douglas that I've milled except that the sap wood has turned greyish due to it having laid about for a long while, any smell would have been in the bark which is long gone which is just as well or it would probably have rotted, Douglas can get quite hard when left and be rough on teeth, band or chain.
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That elegant stair just floats, you're very skilled. But I take you're point about changing tack in life, it's short and to accomplish all your aims, or at least as many as possible, you need to know when to make a change and move on to the next thing while retaining all you're previous skills and using them in another direction to gain more and satisfaction in other pursuits. I did the same as you and around the same amount of time in life.. I just had to get out the workshop away from the phone and into the fresh air... best thing I ever did 👍
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Had his 1st album on in the car this afternoon, saw him 4 times when I was young.
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I'm glad I blurped about bending with steam if it prompted you to show us your work, to me this has a touch of C.R. Mackintosh inspired design but I may be wrong there... but no matter it's very elegant. To do fine work like this do you have a carpentry / cabinet maker design background, just curious ? Go on then, show us something that you've made that you are keen on👍
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Very classy piece of work, thanks for sharing👍
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Yeah, sorry to mislead that's how they do it for instruments... I suppose I meant just general bending of any timber which I've done, and derailed the thread... apologies to the op.
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Yeah, if you want to try bending a piece of wood the easiest way is the ' boil in the bag ' method... give it a search, all you need is a plastic tube / bag made from Visqueen or similar, a wallpaper steamer and a pre-arranged former to bend around and clamp. I believe the general rule is steam for an hour + 1 hour per inch... but I stand to be corrected. I subscribe to several Luthiers channels and find their intricate work, assembly and repair solutions to be fascinating from a players point of view, so cheers for that👍
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I'm not sure if it would be any help but I'm currently building a bespoke kind of lean to polytunnel using various half hoops and other stuff from Northern polytunnels who make their own stuff and bend their own tubes, I suspect the Highland polytunnels in Inverness is from the same source but they don't seem to offer all the parts individually... at least not on the website. Anyway if that's where yours came from all the individual replacement parts can be had and really not too costly. Of course I'm just guessing Highland Polytunnels. Northern Polytunnels NORTHERNPOLYTUNNELS.CO.UK
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That works really well and as already said your indexing of the teeth looks to be a better solution than in the vid you posted👍
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Thanks, I've got a whole stack of it.. but still might be wrong as I'm very good at jumping to conclusions😁
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Maybe Douglas that's been lying around for a while.. that can get hard, doesn't look tight grained enough to hardwood.
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Yep I've bought flat pre-shaped coloured flat roofing steel but as @woodworks said It's really flimsy, I glued it to 6mm ply. Anyway all the best with your project and how about some pics 👍
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304 Stainless sheet at 0.9mm with a brushed finish would cost around £300 from the likes of metal supermarket for 2 bits 6 x 2 foot [ normal shower size ] I know this as I have it as a kitchen splashback. As you want to use reclaimed material, how about finding a scrappy that has commercial kitchen stuff to recycle, I think anything other than Stainless would rust. Also fabricating shops that make this commercial stuff are a good source for a small length of the proper H section right angle joining strip or maybe even sheet offcuts of the right size.. I love using S/S in conjunction with nicely finished wood imo it can look real quality.
