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[Bumber]

Ya can't fool us! That's a Club of Woodworking+15 if I've ever seem one!

Macuahuitl of Woodworking

[Frumple]

That's the drunkest wooden fish I've seen all week. It's even got the anime booze blush under the eyes.

[Iduno]

Still ogling that one handle, I get why walnut is prized, but after playing with the right pieces of pine I can't figure out why it gets so little love. It took me practice to get really good at producing the sort of finish that displays the colors and structures in the slightly translucent outer layers of the piece, but damn it if pine isn't underrated as shit.

Spoiler: Shimmery caramel bands on a silken honey background. (click to show/hide)

I won't deny there are prettier woods out there, but there are lots of uglier ones as well.

I've been cutting myself again, got a whole collection of razors to do it with.

Spoiler: Alarming looking aren't they? (click to show/hide)

The club/saw combo in the front is the best saw you've made. Because I don't even know how that's supposed to work. 2+ blades?

There are 4 blades made from a hacksaw blade and it's technically a really aggressively toothed rasp with a slight curve across it.

That's pretty cool. And not just for the juxtaposition with your elegant saw handles.

[Yoink]

Bought cheap booze, gettin' kinda drunk. Was having some intriguing online chats with a friend but I believe she may have passed out. Alas. In other Happies, have I mentioned how awesome it is to have a working phone again!?   

[Max™]

Phone I can do without... the power has gone out for a couple hours up to a whole night like three times in the last week from these storms and it's not fun having your work light disappear while you're dragging razors across pieces of occasionally surprising wood, it's like OK NATURE WE GET IT ALREADY, BUGGER OFF!

Ya can't fool us! That's a Club of Woodworking+15 if I've ever seem one!

Macuahuitl of Woodworking

Spoiler: Maca-whittle. (click to show/hide)

I pondered trying to work out a staggered arrangement of bolts to fasten it, then considered using bent nails but that would make the front liable to scuff my workpiece and it hit me to just wrap some leather cord I had sitting here through the bolt holes and THEN bend a nail around the back to clamp it all in place.

Has to be small enough to fit into the curve on the inside of the chin without leaving marks on the actual grip, so I had to go super minimalistic with the handle, barely enough to hold it properly but it rasps the heavier marks off of a curved surface out almost as fast as the big shinto saw rasp does on flats.

Hit the curves with the half-round file and run my big card scraper across the sides then start playing with razors and tracking down any marks I missed or which didn't show up except from a weird angle.

I had to put little grip/guards on the razors because I had been using a piece of really thin saw blade for scraping when I noticed the razors.

Spoiler: So I start doing this kinda shit with those blue double sided razors... (click to show/hide)

Though the main reason the guards are there is because I had the back edge of a razor slice into the underside of a horn while I was scraping, I have to make a really major slip to actually get significant bleeding and I'm just scooping these up off the bench and casually grabbing the edges periodically when I flip it to approach a cut from another direction.

So, pretty happy about developing something of a steel immunity to go along with my AC 20 vs splinters, bonked my knuckle with the corner of one of my planes earlier and I swear it would hurt less if I had just sliced it instead.

[TD1]

I am of the unassailable opinion that Max shaves with saws.

[Max™]

>implying I've shaved in the last three years

[TD1]

Now who said you were shaving yourself?

[Culise]

Wait, is he secretly the barber who shaves all and only those people who don't shave themselves?

[Yoink]

Happy Birthday, Scriver!
I know, I know, I'm a bit late. I'll buy you a pint to make up for it.   

[scriver]

A "pint" is a funny word. It sounds like it would be such a tiny amount. Much smaller than it is. Like a small shot glass, or a thimble.

Thimble is also a fun word. In Sweden it's called a "finger keep/castle" and sounds like a woman's name.

Note for self: if ever naming a female house elf, name her Fingerborg.

[Dunamisdeos]

o/

That's because a British pint is 20oz, noticeably larger than the American one.

The reason thimble sounds like a funny word is because it definitely is.

[JoshuaFH]

I finally got Baba is You on sale, a game I've been salivating over when I first saw it, and now I've got it. It's really fun and is exactly what I wanted. Lots of cute, mindfucky puzzles that test your lateral thinking muscles.

[Yoink]

Someone remind me to chuck on Walking In the Sunshine by Roger Miller at the loudest possible volume once summer rolls around again.   

[Tack]

Boo. Cold weather is comfy weather.