Thread: A sad case of HAD emerging...

Originally Posted by guitstik

Neil, we need to hook up sometime and go get "hammered" You had better watch out because files will be next, then pliers and...

Steel, I was thinking that one looked rather out of place.

I am glad, really, glad and touched that both Steel and yourself noticed that 'one of those things is not like others'!

Don't get me started on files and rasps, BTW - mine are all small ones including flats, square, half rounds, rounds, tapers, needles/rat-tails, but there are a fair few of them, as well as small diamond files. A good file is a friend indeed!

Regards,
Neil

My Favorite Hammer is a made in England, warrington framing hammer,perfect balance.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

My Favorite Hammer is a made in England, warrington framing hammer,perfect balance.

Thanks for that - it would have had to come from over my side of tne pond, wouldnt it?!

You could have done the decent thing and pretended it came from Outer Mongolia, but no, you had to tell the truth and now I feel like I have a damn monkey on my shoulder whispering "ooh, lets look out for one, you know you want to..."

Its definitely HAD.

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

Thanks for that - it would have had to come from over my side of tne pond, wouldnt it?!

You could have done the decent thing and pretended it came from Outer Mongolia, but no, you had to tell the truth and now I feel like I have a damn monkey on my shoulder whispering "ooh, lets look out for one, you know you want to..."

Its definitely HAD.

Regards,
Neil

Well Neil, if the truth be told,unless your going to frame up a Dog house for the mum-in -law,you really do not need one

Okay, I came, I saw, I confess. I can use my right and left hands for hammering. Since the first tack hammer I made in 7th grade I have learned how to use a hammer. I have a collection at the welder, a collection in the leather tool chest, a collection in each of my 3 rollaways. A bucket full of used and some broken. I have a dozen on the workbench, and 6 or 8 more big boys on the floor standing ready all in line. I have wood , lead, brass, leather, plastic, rubber, steel, cast, forged, in every shape and size you can imagine. My favorite is one I keep in the fridge.

Originally Posted by 10Pups

Okay, I came, I saw, I confess. I can use my right and left hands for hammering. Since the first tack hammer I made in 7th grade I have learned how to use a hammer. I have a collection at the welder, a collection in the leather tool chest, a collection in each of my 3 rollaways. A bucket full of used and some broken. I have a dozen on the workbench, and 6 or 8 more big boys on the floor standing ready all in line. I have wood , lead, brass, leather, plastic, rubber, steel, cast, forged, in every shape and size you can imagine. My favorite is one I keep in the fridge.

I love that hammer - got to get me one...!

I don't know whether to call you lot 'enablers' or 'disablers'...

Regards,
Neil

A song i play alot on guitar

I'm being worked over by another HAD. As in Hasselblad. Incredibly out of reach on my entry into the photo world. They still aren't cheap. But as Carlos will tell ya about his Rollei - it only hurts once.

Between the Heljestrands, a swedish mixer for breadmaking (ankarsrum), and the 'blad(s), you'd think I was subsidizing the Swedish GDP (not that they need it). Each is a wonderful tool.

'Hope you get to enjoy those tools, Neil. I expect that woodworkers. like hobby machinists are always craving contact w/ the gray-haired masters that can teach more tricks than any class or trade school. Have a blast.

Originally Posted by pinklather

I'm being worked over by another HAD. As in Hasselblad. Incredibly out of reach on my entry into the photo world. They still aren't cheap. But as Carlos will tell ya about his Rollei - it only hurts once.

Between the Heljestrands, a swedish mixer for breadmaking (ankarsrum), and the 'blad(s), you'd think I was subsidizing the Swedish GDP (not that they need it). Each is a wonderful tool.

'Hope you get to enjoy those tools, Neil. I expect that woodworkers. like hobby machinists are always craving contact w/ the gray-haired masters that can teach more tricks than any class or trade school. Have a blast.

Blads aren't bad, I have three but I use the Mamiya's, especially the 645.

Originally Posted by guitstik

Blads aren't bad, I have three but I use the Mamiya's, especially the 645.

The older folding style cameras are still pretty usable, and there were a lot of top grade models, like the Super Ikonta, Agfa Anscs, Perkeos, Mamiyas, etc, and particular the Voigtlander Bessa II. I have had a fair number (got some on display and three boxes of misc folders), but like the Bessa II best - whopping 6cm x 9cm negative, superb lens (three models) and an excelent co-incident image viewfinder.

The Baby Speed Graphic (6cm x 7cm I thin) is another contender - very functional camera with interchangeable backs, a small version of its 4x5 inch format bigger brother - I have had both, but only kept the baby.

For 6cm x 7cm the old interchangeable back/lens/finder Mamiya RB rollfilm camera (not the twin lens C330 type) is great - still got one of those. Heavy weight, though - not a good hand-holder.

I got into the quest of the perfect negative -stray dirt specks, hairs, emulsion defects, scratches etc were a bit hard to retouch on the negative with medium format, so I made the leap from 4x5ins camera, to a 5x7 inch Gandolfi Field to an 8 x 10 inch Kodak. Sadly, I still have those too.

My wife wants me to label everything with prices, just in case I decide to push up the daisies any time soon. Practical, that's what she is.

Regards,
Neil