Daryl Rosenblatt

Bob what kind of cutterhead are they talking about for the jointer? I changed to a segmented cutterhead, and while the change itself was a miserable experience, the results are amazing. I don’t find it quite the way everyone else says, but it finishes much smoother and it doesn’t seem to care which way the grain runs.

And here is a close-up of the inlay.

And I just finished this right before the lockdown. My son and daughter in law got one like this for a present, but it got ruined during cleaning (don’t ask). The original is all bamboo, but unfinished and a bit rough. The cracker trough was shaped using a router bit but wasn’t sanded or anything else. So I didn’t want to just fix it (plus I didn’t want to work on bamboo, it’s like teak, a cutting edge destroyer), and I wanted anything I worked on to look and feel nice. So I found a use for some of the bubinga I got years ago, and here it is. The top looked a bit bare, so I made a butterfly inlay with epoxy resin, using crushed opal and dyed epoxy. There is a limit on uploads so I’ll have to do it in a couple of posts.

I’m trying to work remotely but it’s slow going, I’m doing my best. And I don’t really want to start a new big project now (I need a new tool cabinet) because the only wood I have in bulk if spalted maple, and for that, I need dust protection, and I can’t exactly run out now and get dust masks, mine are old and gross. So I’m working in the basement in my model shop on a new model ship, the HMS Victory. I think it will be about 4 feet long when I’m done. I’ll attach a photo.

Perhaps they signify the pointlessness of storage in an online society, representing Man’s inhumanity to Man.That all things we have are ephemeral, and the only constant we have is the need for laundry. There is a reason Mr. Bottigliere is our art critic in residence (well, we are all in residence now).

Another possiblity: Field Trip! We haven’t had one in a while, surely there are good places to eat nearby. (for those who don’t know, the LIW travels on its stomach)

I just looked up her website, and it’s really interesting. We do weekends pretty well, and if there is a way to have her do a day or so, demoing how to make more than just one jig, it might be successful. Even better, but I don’t see how since everyone would need access to the power equipment, or come with some precut pieces, a shooting board and/or tenon jig seminar, or something like that.

Ace Tool in Wantagh repairs tools, but it sounds like it’s sharper to go the “buy Gabe’s from Joe route.” However, have you tried to blow out the motor with compressed air. As Pete Profeta said (he used to work at Ace), do that before you try anything else.

Sam was asked how he felt winning the Macarthur Fellowship award, also called the Genius Grant. His answer, “It was good for the cash flow.”

Joe, having stood next to you all weekend, I can easily state that nothing makes it hard for you to talk.