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2019-07-14
14 July
By Mark Dennehy
On Jul 14, 2019
In New Toys!, Tools, Woodworking
With 1 Comment

DIY intermission

Funny thing about DIY, it gets all the Tim-the-Toolman-Taylor jokes and all the Daddy-Pig jokes, but at the core it’s a repeat of the Arts-and-Crafts movement of the late 1800s and early 1900s which led to things like this:

From the Met Museum : https://www.metmuseum.org/

I mean, it’s not to everyone’s tastes (I don’t like it much personally) but you can’t really argue it’s incompetent or that it’s inferior because it wasn’t just an aesthetic, it was a philosophy – one of using more traditional craftsmanship rather than industrial processes and moving away from the previous mass produced furniture (sorry Henry, but Ford didn’t invent mass production, High Wycombe got there at least six decades earlier and they might not have been the first) which people felt wasn’t as good as human-made furniture (as in, wasn’t as nice to look at, wasn’t built well, and so on). … Read the rest

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⁣It’s cheap, loud, it vibrates too much. It’ll walk all over the bench if you don’t bolt it to something. It’s as rigid as fresh bread. It’s hilariously underpowered. The chisels are really quite remarkably dull. I have no idea how to store it in the shed (except maybe by disassembling the thing). The chisels are pointy enough to hurt and they’re packed with nothing shielding the pointy bits in an unmarked box that opens from either end and which you’re remarkably likely to tip out into your hand. The faceplate is pure pot metal. The wrenches don’t fit the spindle, just the centers. It feels cheap and not exactly flimsy, but definitely like it won’t survive more than a year or two. It’s an M18x1.5 spindle thread and I’ve no idea if the small cheap chinese chucks would fit or if it has the power to spin them. The odds this thing could turn a bowl big enough to fit two lumps of sugar in are pretty low. ⁣
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⁣Mind you, for €80, it is a hell of a lot of fun :D⁣
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