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Terry
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byan, so far the tooth marks have been contained to my hands and arms.
i shoulda bought stock in band aids....
she drew blood outta my left ear yesterday and you can call me scabby these days
i miss you guys but digging having a dog in the house again.
i figure it'll probably be another month before i get any bench time. puppies are handful. has mike engler posted lately?
case closed.
I uncovered my logging and tractor repair shed and decided to check if you or Karl had made any progress on yours- only a couple of hundred posts since I last looked! Will take me all afternoon to catch-up.
What I did some time ago after experiencing the same situation as you was to split the jig in half (thickness wise).
This will give you two thinner jigs to use.
While one sawhorse is drying in one you can build another in the second half of the jig.
It takes some care to do, but if you have a couple of Brett's kits you will have a couple of jigs to try it on.
Sawhorses and pallets are a good little chore to do when modelling time is limited to short bursts.
Keep up the great work and ideas !!
As Brett says often, " using the laser to aid construction " without losing the craftsmanship.
I've also got a slight adaption to the pallet jig, I guess I'll need to take some pics of that at some point and share that one too, but I'll post that somewhere else.
Mine was a different idea.
this is a video of how my forge is gonna turn out once i finish the main building details and get the dirt floor and wall down on this side, but i think it's gonna look really good.
well it didn't work, so i too a screen shot of it:
well that didn't work either, so i'll go downstsairs and take a t picture of it. be right back,
the "fire" you see to the right isthe light of the forge reflecting against the walls of the main building.
well, i had two hours at the bench tonight. i did a couple of pallets (or skids as we used to call them), and worked on the forge lighting, so i probably won't get back down for a few days. theo comes saturday to stay over night (and hopefully occupy molly for several hours).
i was gonna stage the wall with the forge hood for the pic, but when i did i realized that i misjudged the position of the forge, so i have to do a little surgery and move the forge over a few feet.
all in all i'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
I had to upload the video to Youtube prior to loading here.
i had about three hours at the bench today and made considerable progress on the interior details of the main building. my plan was to finish detailing the inside wall of the blacksmith station, and hopefully start putting that together. one thing i had to do fiirst though, was recut a groove from the left side of the base over to the rear wall of the blacksmith area for the forge lights. the original cut was about a 1/2" too close to the main building so when i staged the wall the forge wasn't under the forge hood.
if you look closely you can see the second cut. i didn't get to finish it, and the reason for that this:
let's refer to this henceforth, as the murder weapon.
after i was pretty happy with the interior details, i decided to connect the saw blade to the dremel extension and make the cut, and as i was just widening the cut a little bit more, i felt the tension release on the extension, and a split, nay....a nanosecond later, i heard a terrible crash as i see the developing scene of the murder.
both finished tractors; unfinished.
there's no telling when you'll hear from me again, but let me say this from the rooftop:
IF IT'S MAY I'M RETIRED!!!
Terry
thanks. i'm so f**king steamed at myself i could spit.