Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by guitstik

To think that from the days of cassette tape programming in which I used to do proficiently to today with the almost limitless computer capacity I have become computer illiterate. Apparently, my smart phone is smarter than I am and I am constantly telling people that they need to be smarter than the tools they work with. I am a Luddite and I know it. It has only been the last three years that I started shooting digital cameras instead of film. To be honest, I still shoot more film than digital. The problem lies in the fact that my wife will not let me call on a friend of ours to come fix my computer so that it will let me load all of the digital pictures I have taken but now CAN'T even get on the computer because for some reason the computer won't take them now even tho it used to. The gadgets are conspiring against me.

Cassettes???????? I could talk about 8 track tapes, however I'll go a little further back in time and say that I had 4 track tapes and the player for them in my first car. However I only plugged a tape in and didn't 'program' them.

While normally I always recommend to keep SWMBO happy, have your friend come over and help you whether she likes it or not. If she questions why you did do so against her will tell her the truth; that you Needed to be able to use that Technological Terror known as a Computer as you can't use the F***ing phone to do what you want and that you couldn't even get on the computer to use it without your friends help.

If you end up needing a good divorce lawyer, I know one.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

While my shaft is 1/2" I still wanted to look at what you said were 'Harbor Freight' 2" hard felt wheels for a 1/4" shaft. However I can't find them at HF's site. Any help would be appreciatedsuch as a direct live link?
OH! About the difference between a 1/4" and 1/2" shaft and fitting the buffing wheels/never tell an old redneck country boy that it won't work!
Thanks for any help. It is truly appreciated.

N/A In store only....
~Richard

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Cassettes???????? I could talk about 8 track tapes, however I'll go a little further back in time and say that I had 4 track tapes and the player for them in my first car. However I only plugged a tape in and didn't 'program' them.

While normally I always recommend to keep SWMBO happy, have your friend come over and help you whether she likes it or not. If she questions why you did do so against her will tell her the truth; that you Needed to be able to use that Technological Terror known as a Computer as you can't use the F***ing phone to do what you want and that you couldn't even get on the computer to use it without your friends help.

If you end up needing a good divorce lawyer, I know one.

If that scenario ever played out at my house, I wouldn't need a divorce lawyer and all she would need would be a good defense attorney.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Cassettes???????? I could talk about 8 track tapes, however I'll go a little further back in time and say that I had 4 track tapes and the player for them in my first car. However I only plugged a tape in and didn't 'program' them.

While normally I always recommend to keep SWMBO happy, have your friend come over and help you whether she likes it or not. If she questions why you did do so against her will tell her the truth; that you Needed to be able to use that Technological Terror known as a Computer as you can't use the F***ing phone to do what you want and that you couldn't even get on the computer to use it without your friends help.

If you end up needing a good divorce lawyer, I know one.

They'll do that when ya least expect it to!!!!!!!

I will be restoring this two Rubberset brushes. The first one has been stripped and stained with black oak stain, and the second one will get a stained with cherry wood stain.

This is how the first one turned out

Originally Posted by DickWhitman

Thanks gents. I'm going to send it to cudarunner to let him try it out. However I do have my doubts.

Well, I gotta hand it to him...cudarunner was able to get this thing shaving nicely. Somehow managed to get a bevel set between the rows of pitting. Very impressive indeed!

My hat goes off to Cudarunner!!!

Thank You!

Here's the links and post #'s to the razor in question;

http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...orking-45.html

See Post 441

http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...orking-46.html

See Post 454

When the razor landed at the Boars Nest the pitting was far worse than the pictures had shown, I applied 6 layers of plastic electrical tape to the spine and went to my DMT 325.

(Yes things get 'squiggly' with that much tape but I wasn't honing/I was trying to find good steel and not too much at a time)!

Here's the Regime:

(X Strokes with lots of pressure back and forth on the edge and Grind, Grind, Grind; Change the tape; Grind, Grind, Grind; Check the Edge etc. Once I found solid steel after ALMOST removing some pits and before entering others I removed the tape and used two layers of tape on the DMT to start to get the razor ready for honing instead of Restoration.

There was still a very, very little amount of the last pit left so I switched to one layer of tape and started on the King 1200. Once the last of the pit was gone, the bevel was nicely set so I proceeded to finish honing on the Norton 4/8K and finished with the Naniwa 12K.

All in all I'm pleased with the way it came out. It should shave for quite awhile longer but there is more pitting that more than likely get exposed with too many bevel sets.

I'm glad that I was trusted to give it a go! :

Roy
Yes, I saw those post's when they first came out. I just got a DMT 325 for lapping my hones but I have a few razors that have slight chips & pits & a couple frowns. That diamond should cut thru it quickly. Good idea, I'll have to try that. I might have to get another DMT 325, for razors & keep the other for my stones. I have a DMT 95 lapping plate but I just bought some DMT's from SRD. I also have the 600, 1200 & 8k but Lynn told me he tried honing with the 1200 & the 8k & that it was too abrasive on the blades, so unless I find a use for them, I'll be listing them in the classifieds.