I've got to preface this with saying that I'm a gambler and take chances that ordinary people don't or shouldn't. These ideas may seem a little weird and therefore shouldn't be tried at home.
I was handplaning an edge with my Stanley #5 and accidentally nicked my fingernail. Well, it just took the smoothest little sliver off that I have ever seen. So, I tried another part of my nail and WOW, trimmed it faster than any nail clipper I have ever used. It was a bit bulky, so I switched to my low angle block plane, and man what a difference.
When I got done, there were a bunch of tiny straight edges and some frays, so I went over to my stand up 6"x48" belt sander and smoothed out all the edges. I had on a 80x belt, which left some sanding marks even though I sanded with the grain. I finished up with a touch up with my oscillating spindle sander. Came out nice. I might give 'em a coat of water white clear lacquer, in case LOML wants to go to the Bistro De La Gastro Elegance, for dinner, a very exclusive dining experience, where your nails are checked at the door.
Then I thought, clear oil base polyurethane might be a better choice because it may take more abuse. If I did use that maybe a satin would look better than a gloss. It might be interesting to put that one to a poll.
My next revelation was one day while using the air hose to blow sawdust and chips off, I had this brainstorm to use the dust collector instead. Made sense to me. Why blow that stuff all over the shop. So I unhooked my pickup hose at the RAS and turned on my 7 HP cyclone. Immediately it tried to suck the shirt right off my back. So I took off my shirt. It did a fantastic job, but I gotta tell ya-all that stickin' the hose in my armpits made me laugh. I'm very ticklish. If a shirt was hanging on a hanger and someone walked over to it and lifted the sleeve and tickled it there, I would break out in laughter from the other side of the room.
Anyway, as effective as this was, I decided not to remove my pants because you never know what could happen. It did get all the sawdust off of my face, and I don't have to blow my nose for at least a week.
Not many people know this, but a 4"x24" belt sander with a 50x silicon carbide belt would be perfect for tattoo removal. DAMHIKT.
So, as tight knit as we are on this forum, maybe some of you will share those little tricks from your shop.
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I was handplaning an edge with my Stanley #5 and accidentally nicked my fingernail. Well, it just took the smoothest little sliver off that I have ever seen. So, I tried another part of my nail and WOW, trimmed it faster than any nail clipper I have ever used. It was a bit bulky, so I switched to my low angle block plane, and man what a difference.
When I got done, there were a bunch of tiny straight edges and some frays, so I went over to my stand up 6"x48" belt sander and smoothed out all the edges. I had on a 80x belt, which left some sanding marks even though I sanded with the grain. I finished up with a touch up with my oscillating spindle sander. Came out nice. I might give 'em a coat of water white clear lacquer, in case LOML wants to go to the Bistro De La Gastro Elegance, for dinner, a very exclusive dining experience, where your nails are checked at the door.
Then I thought, clear oil base polyurethane might be a better choice because it may take more abuse. If I did use that maybe a satin would look better than a gloss. It might be interesting to put that one to a poll.
My next revelation was one day while using the air hose to blow sawdust and chips off, I had this brainstorm to use the dust collector instead. Made sense to me. Why blow that stuff all over the shop. So I unhooked my pickup hose at the RAS and turned on my 7 HP cyclone. Immediately it tried to suck the shirt right off my back. So I took off my shirt. It did a fantastic job, but I gotta tell ya-all that stickin' the hose in my armpits made me laugh. I'm very ticklish. If a shirt was hanging on a hanger and someone walked over to it and lifted the sleeve and tickled it there, I would break out in laughter from the other side of the room.
Anyway, as effective as this was, I decided not to remove my pants because you never know what could happen. It did get all the sawdust off of my face, and I don't have to blow my nose for at least a week.
Not many people know this, but a 4"x24" belt sander with a 50x silicon carbide belt would be perfect for tattoo removal. DAMHIKT.
So, as tight knit as we are on this forum, maybe some of you will share those little tricks from your shop.
.
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