Lee Valley goes - um, modern?

[greenacres2]

I don't think i'd ask to borrow his mallet.

On the other hand--hand carved toast for breakfast sounds pretty good!!

earl

[RAFlorida]

In response to Mike's first post:

A laser guided hand plane! It'll keep you planin' straight and on the money.
Loring post of the guy in the car! Now THAT's a neat idea. Adjustable height work area, and it whiles away the time while at a busy intersection, (never mind the horns honken' behind ya. if they'r in a rush they can pass around you.)

[Rand]

I checked out the other afd tools. Hilarious.

[Pappy]

Sent them both to the wife and my brother. She was planning on getting me the No Fuss Tool Shroud for Father's Day.....

[chopnhack]

Is that a double entendre?

Never mate, this is a family site ;P

[LinuxRandal]

Wondering if anyone else saw this little gem from that day?

http://www.finehomebuilding.com/item...ilding-eletter

[LCHIEN]

haha, he did say the board stretch would work up to 20% stretch but then he proceeded to stretch a 4 ft. board to 5 feet... that's 25% in my book. So it worked even better than they thought!

[cabinetman]

Wondering if anyone else saw this little gem from that day?

http://www.finehomebuilding.com/item...ilding-eletter

No tricks played in that video. What else works is just plain threatening the board. No goo to paint on.

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[pelligrini]

haha, he did say the board stretch would work up to 20% stretch but then he proceeded to stretch a 4 ft. board to 5 feet... that's 25% in my book. So it worked even better than they thought!

Maybe the elastomeric was rated for just a 20% stretch, but there usually always room for little fudge factor.