My dad still has his and it works great. It's heavy, but I think his Skil jigsaw that's also all metal is just as heavy.
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Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?
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I also have some "Mall" tools. My Dad had a Mall saw, and one of my professor's Dad's was a Mall rep. When I saw a mall tool in his lab I mentioned my saw, and he was so impressed that I had even heard of them he gave me all the old stuff his Dad had left when he died. Got another saw, drills and a drill press thingy. Also some adapters. They are pretty heavy similar to the old Skilsaw
My dad has some old aluminum body skill tools. Again, I have much better stuff so I'll probably never use them but they'll also probably never die.
On the modern tools front, I keep loaning stuff to a neighbour who wants to become a builder/influencer. She tags the manufacturer in her pictures/videos and they send her cases of free tools. She tagged milwaukee and got a ton of Ryobi dropped off, tagged Bessey and they gave her two cases of beast clamps (which are more applicable for her use as she was using some K bodies for construction instead of the trigger clamps she also borrowed).
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I need to start being an influencer….I want free tools!
We're not pretty enough to get free stuff.
There's ways around that:
Youthful-looking Japanese female motorbike rider is a 50-year-old MAN
A youthful-looking Japanese female motorbike rider has fooled thousands on social media after 'she' was exposed as a 50-year-old man with long luscious hair.
I've done the reverse, I'm actually a hot 20-year old female pretending to be a not-even-remotely-hot middle-aged man.
Thanks….dream crusher. My mother always told me I’m handsome….maybe she was just trying to be nice.
If your neighbour is home improvement Youtuber "Home with Stefani" I'm a big fan.
Nope, not blonde. She also appears to live in California. I would be a fan of living in California too.
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Just proves how superficial parts of the online world can be.There's ways around that:
Youthful-looking Japanese female motorbike rider is a 50-year-old MAN
A youthful-looking Japanese female motorbike rider has fooled thousands on social media after 'she' was exposed as a 50-year-old man with long luscious hair.www.dailymail.co.uk
I've done the reverse, I'm actually a hot 20-year old female pretending to be a not-even-remotely-hot middle-aged man.
There's only one beautiful baby and every mother has it.
I suspect a FB friend is an influencer in Buffalo. He constantly pushes local diners. It wouldn't be my thing. I like calling the shots as I see them. Mind you most diner fare is the same recipe: Fat, salt and mystery meat.
So now we are looking much more closely at this and would love to get a table in the next month or so. We are looking for a finished table as opposed to buying a slab and then finishing it and choosing/installing the base. There are two companies I came across Just Be Woodsy and Urban Tree Salvage that take GTA wood and turn them into furniture pieces - both offer kiln dried wood. If I was able to get a table made from wood that came from a Toronto park, that would be the most amazing thing, considering I have worked for Toronto Parks for a long time!
Any thoughts on these two companies and the products they offer?
Urban tree salvage table linked is only 0.75" thick. For me, if I want a rustic style table the top must be much thicker (more like 2.5"). For formal dining, I am ok with a thinner top. I don't know, it's like mcmansion architecture to me. Not horrible, but just off. Pick a style and own it. They also (imo) put a base on many of their tables that is far too narrow. Base width looks about half slab width on some of their products. wtf. Someone will lean on that and the whole thing will fall over. This needs to be functional. They have a good concept, I'm just not sure they are up to steam on execution.
I like that JBW stamps the location of the tree (assuming honesty) which fits well with maintaining the connection to the source.
If you want a table made, I have a buddy in Grimsby that I think has made at least a few. Afaik, he is wood only so no metal bases. Not sure if that is a plus or minus for you. Not sure if he has access to Toronto park slabs. Let me know if you want me to see what he can do.
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Thanks for the advice. I also agree with you about the thin table tops and I definitely would not buy a thin top - prefer a thick top that will be durable for decades of use. Interestingly enough, in a past life I was a helper to a carpenter building higher end cedar patio's and decks as a summer job. I was often late to work because I would party all night and sleep in. That carpenter I worked with is the founder/owner of Urban Tree Salvage (Sean) and he's also my wife's ex boyfriend from many moons ago! Not sure if that is a good or bad thing
My wife is currently big on two things - getting a round/irregular shaped table about 5'-6' in diamter and she also wants a metal base, unless the wooden base has legs that are not solid slabs because we want the light to pass through the base, instead of casting dark shadows (like pic below). If we can't find a round/irregular table then we would look at a rectangular table.
She wants round 5'+ in diameter? Yikes. Look for table builders on the west coast.Thanks for the advice. I also agree with you about the thin table tops and I definitely would not buy a thin top - prefer a thick top that will be durable for decades of use. Interestingly enough, in a past life I was a helper to a carpenter building higher end cedar patio's and decks as a summer job. I was often late to work because I would party all night and sleep in. That carpenter I worked with is the founder/owner of Urban Tree Salvage (Sean) and he's also my wife's ex boyfriend from many moons ago! Not sure if that is a good or bad thing
My wife is currently big on two things - getting a round/irregular shaped table about 5'-6' in diamter and she also wants a metal base, unless the wooden base has legs that are not solid slabs because we want the light to pass through the base, instead of casting dark shadows (like pic below). If we can't find a round/irregular table then we would look at a rectangular table.
Here is the last table my buddy built. This one lives on his deck. Not the top you are looking for but reasonably open leg structure.
That's a beautiful outdoor table! While I am good with having wood legs (interesting fact - my uncle had an amputation from a motorcycle accident when he was a teenager and lived his whole adult life using a wooden legShe wants round 5'+ in diameter? Yikes. Look for table builders on the west coast.
Here is the last table my buddy built. This one lives on his deck. Not the top you are looking for but reasonably open leg structure.
), but my wife is pretty keen on the metal legs to go with other elements of the interior of our house.That company Just Be Woodsy seems to have some tables built from a large silver maple in Toronto which are over 5' in diameter, but they are $5k!
Our 24 inch coil top stove is about 30 years old. The oven temp flucuates some and now that the Squeeze is baking bread that's more of a problem. I said "no problem we'll get a new stove but realize we'll be replacing every 10 years"
I inherited my Dad's circular saw and promptly cut thru the cord with it.
My grandmother baked bread in a wood stove. Getting it started required chopping wood. The thermometer was the sound of her spit sizzling 0n the stove top.
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