On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:06:36PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:25:46AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:59:52AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > For pure woodworking (as opposed to, say, surface prep prior to > > > repainting something on the house), I don't use sandpaper at all. My > > > shop doesn't have it. I use scrapers if I need or, or leave a true > > > planed surface. > > > > Nice way to take my analogy as a means to veer wildly OT ;-) > > There's a thinn veneer of T if you hook the router up to your debian box > for CNC :) been thinking of that, but I'm starting to look more towards reprap... www.reprap.org ... > > If you can only have one woodworking tool, I meant within the context of the router/shaper question. > make it a combination stone. ? > Then you can make every other tool eventually. To make life easier, if > you can only have one tool, make it a vertical milling machine. You can > then make a metal lathe and between the two, you can make anything > in the world, eventually. I've always said given a decent pocket knife and enough time I could rebuild civilization... maybe that should be my sig. A
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