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[PCeBiker]

Geez,
people have really regressed since my last visit here!!!

No,..
It's just me.
I haven't bothered to progress.

 

[Gionnirocket]

Geez,
people have really regressed since my last visit here!!!

Welcome to the Jungle cheesenuts!

 

[PCeBiker]

I made my own regressive handlebar stands too,..

They wanted $79 for handlebar jacks at the time.
They're only $39 now, but I don't need them anymore.

 

[PCeBiker]

My new battery brackets arrived, so I reinforced them with silicone and glued them in place to seal them up,..

 

[PedalUma]

I just installed some nearly imposable tires on a Specialized cyclocross/gravel bike. They are tubeless ready tires on a deep clincher rim. This vice clamp is the only way not to just chase around the gap where you are trying to lever.

 

[PedalUma]

I was fitting a new chain today on that same bike and invented a new tool. Call it a Quick Set. The bike got a brake job and a Box 3 Prime 9 11-47 group-set that comes with a chain. What I did was break off three prongs of a bamboo fork. That is the tool! I used the single prong to set the quick link as a wedge. Worked like a charm.

 

[Gionnirocket]

Running snot/Frozen booger remover.

When I first got these gloves I thought the tiny zipper pocket pointless...
But after the first ride below 40°... I found a purpose.

 

[PedalUma]

I always need to scratch my nose right there! Is that a microfiber pad that looks like a green goober licking tongue?

 

[PCeBiker]

I wonder if she kisses anyone with that mouth.

 

[Gionnirocket]

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I wonder if she kisses anyone with that mouth.

I heard she goes down on the Grinch

 

[fooferdoggie]

these are the stamps I used to mark the wooden hand planes I made years ago. some I made some I bought. the block is brazillian rosewood thats almost extint. it was from a railroad tie.

 

[6zfshdb]

Tools I wish I still had.

My great grandfather was a shipwright in Liverpool in the early 1800's He had a black wooden chest filled with the tools he used in his trade. The chest passed to my grandfather who immigrated to the US in 1906 and then to my father after he passed. As a child, I remember peeking into that well worn chest at the various wood planes, hand augers, chisels, clamps, caulking irons and many tools I didn't recognize. The chest remained in our basement for many years until my father retired. When he moved to his retirement home, he donated the chest to the Mystic Seaport maritime museum in Connecticut.

I visited Mystic in 2009 and some of the tools were actually being used in the restoration of the Charles W Morgan, the last surviving wooden whaling ship:

Charles W. Morgan - The Last Wooden Whaleship in the World!

The Charles W. Morgan is the last of an American whaling fleet and is now is the only wooden whaleship ship still afloat. Check it out now!

mysticseaport.org

ttps://forum.woodenboat.com/forum/building-repair/98620-charles-w-morgan-restoration-a-volunteer-s-perspective-1

It brought tears to my eyes when I saw that old black chest, and many of it's tools on display at Mystic's Henry B. DuPont restoration center museum.

 

[fooferdoggie]

i love when people email me about my planes years later. the one thing I did that actually effected a lot of people in a good way.. I never thought I could make a name for myself.

 

[Gionnirocket]

i love when people email me about my planes years later. the one thing I did that actually effected a lot of people in a good way.. I never thought I could make a name for myself.

You should have made a stamp of it.

 

[DaveMatthews]

these are the stamps I used to mark the wooden hand planes I made years ago. some I made some I bought. the block is brazillian rosewood thats almost extint. it was from a railroad tie.


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Braz rosewood is a highly sought after guitar wood

 

[fooferdoggie]

Braz rosewood is a highly sought after guitar wood

you cant buy it anymore its very endangered. but this was a old railroad tie.

 

[fooferdoggie]

You're the only member that knows that.
I had to web search wtf is Braz Rosewood. It's Brazilian Rosewood Jacaranda Tree which we have here.
I should get in my Toyota and Chop down a couple trees.

dont think its the same the true one is Dalbergia nigra and it is very endangered.so most of what you see out there is not the real thing. but you can see how they used it when they made railroad ties from it in the heyday.

 

[Gionnirocket]

You're the only member that knows that.
I had to web search wtf is Braz Rosewood. It's Brazilian Rosewood Jacaranda Tree which we have here.
I should get in my Toyota and Chop down a couple trees.

Widdle a pipe to smoke from

 

[DaveMatthews]

you cant buy it anymore its very endangered. but this was a old railroad tie.

You can buy it in USA. Guitars are marked "USA ONLY", so I cannot import one as I am in Canada.
Older guitars with Braz are available here used.

 

[DaveMatthews]

dont think its the same the true one is Dalbergia nigra and it is very endangered.so most of what you see out there is not the real thing. but you can see how they used it when they made railroad ties from it in the heyday.

I have 3 guitars with Indian rosewood necks, and those are fantastic feeling/playing axes. I still hunt for Braz guitars but they are few and far between... and expensive AF.