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Bull City

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chester said:
is your missus naturally pessimistic or is her worry driven by empirical data?
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Data. Sample:

For about three years, 2006-2009, my oldest son and I renovated three old house. On the first one, we built a nice little Craftsman-style shed roof over the kitchen door. Late Sunday afternoon, I was trying to nail the plywood sheathing from a ladder and really smashed my finger with my hammer: an explosion of blood. Emergency Room!! 

Think about what I could do with a draw knife.

 
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Sculpting with 30 grit on a belt sander is highly underrated.....harder to draw blood, but connective tissue might stretch some.....

 
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Amati said:
Sculpting with 30 grit on a belt sander is highly underrated.....harder to draw blood, but connective tissue might stretch some.....
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Go for the meaty bits first, if you can see through the haze you can start on the brainbucket.

 
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SloopJonB said:
I've smacked lots of digits - just last weekend I put both hands nearly out of commission within hours - I've just never drawn blood with just a hammer.

It always took an edge of some sort.
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I have cut myself so many times, that's fuck all...but there's nothing like hitting yourself with a blunt object so hard that you bleed.

Signed: survivor.

 
paps49

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The 80 grit flap wheel is kinda nice too.

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Ishmael said:
I have cut myself so many times, that's fuck all...but there's nothing like hitting yourself with a blunt object so hard that you bleed.

Signed: survivor.
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We have been allowed by our Creator to invent many things (to paraphrase LF Herreshoff  :) )  that can hurt like hell......

 
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Bull City said:
This is not a sailing topic, but it's watercraft and I hope it will be interesting.

I like to surf. I have never been very good, but my three sons are pretty good. Anyhow, for my recent 70th, the three boys and my daughter got me a Grain Surfboard kit. Grain is in Maine, and they build hollow wood boards. They also sell kits that are cut with CNC machines. Here's their homepage: https://www.grainsurfboards.com/

I think they're beautiful, and I think most of you will agree. My oldest son lives locally, and has a custom cabinet making business, and he was the ringleader. So we'll be building this at his place over the winter. I think we're going to need about a thousand spring clamps. My plan is to take some pics as we build this log, and share our progress on this thread. That (and SJB) will put a little pressure on my lazy ass.

They selected the 8' Steamer. I'm more used to a 9' board, but this is supposed to be a better float. That will motivate me to drop 10 pounds, and get out on my paddle board more.

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A boy can never have enough clamps.

 
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I was using a converted vacuum/blower to clean off carbon dust, marveling at my safety grill ingenuity as I hand held the beast.  The grill fell off, my hand went into the impeller it was shredded and mashed in a jiffy,  plus the hand was coated with a glass/carbon glaze.  Not my finest hour.  About a month later I was feeding our fussy cat and refluffed his food, came into the kitchen to wash off my finger.  My sweet child [age 27] freaked out at the sight of flesh falling off my hand.  I cooly completed hand washing.  Cat food finger is now my new nickname.

 
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What exactly happened to your hand, and at the sink?

guerdon said:
I was using a converted vacuum/blower to clean off carbon dust, marveling at my safety grill ingenuity as I hand held the beast.  The grill fell off, my hand went into the impeller it was shredded and mashed in a jiffy,  plus the hand was coated with a glass/carbon glaze.  Not my finest hour.  About a month later I was feeding our fussy cat and refluffed his food, came into the kitchen to wash off my finger.  My sweet child [age 27] freaked out at the sight of flesh falling off my hand.  I cooly completed hand washing.  Cat food finger is now my new nickname.
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guerdon said:
I was using a converted vacuum/blower to clean off carbon dust, marveling at my safety grill ingenuity as I hand held the beast.  The grill fell off, my hand went into the impeller it was shredded and mashed in a jiffy,  plus the hand was coated with a glass/carbon glaze.  Not my finest hour.  About a month later I was feeding our fussy cat and refluffed his food, came into the kitchen to wash off my finger.  My sweet child [age 27] freaked out at the sight of flesh falling off my hand.  I cooly completed hand washing.  Cat food finger is now my new nickname.
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You refluff your cat's food with your finger...a month after a serious failure with a hand held blower. Fascinating. 

 
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Bull City

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Things are progressing, albeit very slowly. Tim (my oldest son, the ringleader) and I finished the "rocker table" today. It's kind of like the strongback for building a wooden boat, very crucial to a well-formed surfboard. Next weekend, we will glue up the cedar planks for the deck of the board.

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