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swickles posted:I doubt they are hiding anything (could very easily be wrong) but they probably don't have a government mandated process for retaining and distributing that information like they do with BBP and chemicals. This is probably them not wanting to do work and banking on you being too lazy to fill out the paperwork to make them do work. It just seems weird that it isn’t a memo like “hey guys we found this, here’s the report, we are mitigating and taking care of business” instead of them immediately telling me to FOIA when I asked. They haven’t been completely opaque about it, but it just struck me as odd to add a layer to the request. And I’ve already made the request, for sure.
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Meant to post this several days ago, but we needed to get our kid out of his toddler bed and into a real bed, so I made him a new bed frame. The bed finally arrived so I was able to assemble the whole thing. Nothing special, but did give me a project to do last year. I also made an edge-grain cutting board, which is something I've been meaning to do for a while for my wife. It turned out ok, I had a hard time getting it to be perfectly flat, so I ended up putting it on little rubber feet. It's pretty big 15"x21". I don't have a planer wide enough to do the whole thing, and it seemed when I took my hand planer too it that I could never get it nice and flat all the way across, but I got it good enough for a cutting board.  I think I'm going to focus on making a bunch of picture frames now because I have a fair amount of scrap wood that could easily be cut up for frames, and those are generally quick and easy projects to do. I'm trying to limit the big furniture projects as those take many weeks and it's hard for me to get enough free time to do them.
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Nice. I respect those of you who can woodwork well.
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Silly Burrito posted:Nice. I respect those of you who can woodwork well. Same. I’ve tried a couple of different projects and I’m Very Bad at it. My girlfriend’s dad is retired and built himself a nice little woodshop that he spends a lot of time in and the poo poo he creates is crazy.
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Silly Burrito posted:Nice. I respect those of you who can woodwork well.  (yes, directed at BiaB)
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LeeMajors posted:It just seems weird that it isn’t a memo like “hey guys we found this, here’s the report, we are mitigating and taking care of business” instead of them immediately telling me to FOIA when I asked. The response will basically be: Dear Requestor, Please see below for the information you requested: [REDACTED] Thank you.
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:The response will basically be: Actual  How’s the full time medic gig going?
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Some good cringe content coming from the Athletics relocation conference: https://twitter.com/MattOrtega/status/1750238352379666434
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Kalli posted:Some good cringe content coming from the Athletics relocation conference: Man, can’t believe starving a beloved franchise for three decades, trampling every ounce of good will they’d earned by winning fairly consistently in spite of their lack of resources, and then moving them a town with no appetite or history for said franchise went over like a wet fart.  Oakland A’s, we had good times and I wish we could still be friends
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LeeMajors posted:Man, can’t believe starving a beloved franchise for three decades, trampling every ounce of good will they’d earned by winning fairly consistently in spite of their lack of resources, and then moving them a town with no appetite or history for said franchise went over like a wet fart. Seriously sucks. I've been all in on the Dodgers ever since the move was finalized.
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Bird in a Blender posted:I could never get it nice and flat all the way across, but I got it good enough for a cutting board. Great job on the cutting board. And yes, making it flat in all directions using hand planes is A Skill. I've made two now and I'm proud to say that they do sit flat on both sides, BUT that involved literally like ten hours of loving planing. Each. It was suuuuch a pain in the rear end. I made a much bigger rectangle flat this year though so it was worth it to figure the gently caress out "how to make flat using handplanes" which just did not sink in from solely watching youtubes, I had to actually do it, repeatedly.  Picture frames are good projects although another struggle is getting perfect mitered corners. My first frame had small gaps, not big enough for other people to notice really, but I saw them.  e. it probably wasn't really 10 hours, but it felt like it. I'd get frustrated and walk away and come back to work on in the next evening. Having christmas as a deadline in both cases is the only reason I got them done. I'm not making another without an actual planer, I think. I love working with handplanes but I don't have a big perfectly flat surface other than my table saw top, which isn't ideal for doing this work on. I also don't have the right setup like a workbench with an end vise. So it's a lot of loving around with F clamps and trying to plane around them. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Jan 24, 2024 |
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Leperflesh posted:Great job on the cutting board. And yes, making it flat in all directions using hand planes is A Skill. I've made two now and I'm proud to say that they do sit flat on both sides, BUT that involved literally like ten hours of loving planing. Each. It was suuuuch a pain in the rear end. I made a much bigger rectangle flat this year though so it was worth it to figure the gently caress out "how to make flat using handplanes" which just did not sink in from solely watching youtubes, I had to actually do it, repeatedly. You and I have similar problems where my workbench is not great, and also not flat, so my references aren't great. This is what I get for working out of my garage that also still has a car parked in it when I'm not working there. I also have the same challenges with mitered corners, but I usually get them good enough for me. I'm not selling these things or anything, so I accept minor gaps. One thing I learned a long time ago when I took a class is to cut it close, and then use a belt sander (not the hand held kind) to sand it down to the exact dimension you need. This helps smooth out any cut marks and get you to an exact 45 degree miter. Problem is for me is that I don't have a belt sander, so I either accept the tiny gaps or I try to create some jig to use my hand tools. gently caress, maybe I'll break down and buy a small belt sander. The curse of the woodworking hobby is always finding some other tool you think you need. Also, in general my poo poo is not all that great. I almost never make things for other people because I am very self-conscious of the flaws in my work. I just don't have the time to make things perfect, so I've come to accept the flaws, and I'm ok with them because it's just going in my house. You're stuff looks good Leper, nice work.
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Hey thanks! Yeah I do actually have a belt sander, the benchtop kind, and I struggle with it because it has a platen behind the sandpaper but the belt itself doesn't perfectly lay flat, so you will round corners a little as you press into it. I may just need to fiddle with it more. It was inexpensive, and poor fitment is just sorta part of the territory. I may have to make a custom platen thing myself. The cutting boards were gifts, one for my stepdad and one for my wife's dad, and part of my problem now is I feel bad I haven't made gifts for a bunch of other close family members yet. But I don't want to make more of those. They came out great, but were way more work than I expected. If I had a big drum sander or planer with a wide enough working area they'd have been trivial, and all the ones you see people selling at farmers markets and the like have been made with a drum sander. But the work of learning to edge glue boards together and then make them flat using only hand tools does pay dividends. I'm far more confident with my number 7 and number 8 now than I used to be. They're not just for edge jointing! And I'm determined to fix up my old wooden jack plane because it's so much lighter than my metal #5 or 6. Just another project but I really do like fixing up old hand tools. I am working in my garage and I have a big 4x4 welding table my stepdad and I made that was "good enough" for welding, but the top is not flat and it's too low for woodworking. But if I want a proper woodworkers/joiner's bench I am gonna need to do something with this table because it's the only space available. Maybe outside on the patio but that means getting the patio roof fixed so it stops leaking. Which we gotta do anyway. But this is just one example of how my hobby projects get backlogged by my house projects and then a decade has gone by and I still don't have the workshop setup I want. So maybe I need to just say gently caress it and get that table out even if it's gonna get ruined by water.
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Bird in a Blender posted:I also made an edge-grain cutting board, which is something I've been meaning to do for a while for my wife. It turned out ok, I had a hard time getting it to be perfectly flat, so I ended up putting it on little rubber feet. It's pretty big 15"x21". I don't have a planer wide enough to do the whole thing, and it seemed when I took my hand planer too it that I could never get it nice and flat all the way across, but I got it good enough for a cutting board. That's incredible work, nicely done, my friend. Reminds me of a beautiful oak cutting board that my former sister-in-law gave me for Christmas several years ago (that I miss terribly, because my ex-wife kept it when I moved out).
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if it's any consolation, Timby, oak is not ideal for cutting boards, it has an open pore structure. I mean it's very pretty, but bird has properly used something like cherry or maple (with the chatoyancy I am leaning maple) along with walnut accents there. I know money is super tight for you now but when you are back on your feet and can afford one, you can get a nice side or endgrain board made of maple or similar and it'll last you a lifetime.
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Yes it's maple with walnut. My lumber yard I frequent had some 1x2 boards on sale, and they're surfaced four sides (S4S) so it meant I didn't need to spend a bunch of time planing them. I just cut them to length, glued and then just had to plane and sand to get it flat because it seems I can never glue up a bunch of boards without screwing it up a little bit. I do too much watching woodworking reels on instagram, so I try to learn their tricks, but those people are working in full professional shops with tools I'll never own.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Yes it's maple with walnut. My lumber yard I frequent had some 1x2 boards on sale, and they're surfaced four sides (S4S) so it meant I didn't need to spend a bunch of time planing them. I just cut them to length, glued and then just had to plane and sand to get it flat because it seems I can never glue up a bunch of boards without screwing it up a little bit. I do too much watching woodworking reels on instagram, so I try to learn their tricks, but those people are working in full professional shops with tools I'll never own. Hey, for what it's worth, it looks great.
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It really does. And boards warp. No matter what you do, if you cut a board it's going to move at least a little. So even the pros have to run their poo poo through a planer after doing a glueup unless they do some extra poo poo to force them inline, such as a breadboard construction or using dominos or poo poo like that. BTW you guys are gamers, I have noticed in recent games that they're starting to include authentic old-timey woodworking stuff. In Witcher 3 there's a guy in one of the little towns who is using a wood plane to plane a plank, and in baldurs gate 3 I keep finding a "table" that is actually a joiner's bench with a bunch of square holes on top for holdfasts. Makes me feel good to see that attention to detail.
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Kurgarra Queen posted:I’m a Paradox girl, but Hearts of Iron interests me least, honestly. Same. I'll laser focus on a Paradox game and put 60 hours into it over the course of a couple weeks multiple times a year, but I don't remember exactly what stopped me from doing the same with HoI4 when I saw it was on Game Pass. Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:I need to get back into Victoria 3 This is on my Steam wishlist as the next one to suddenly lose a bunch of time to.
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My fave social media trend is content creators doing DIYs or remodeling projects where they brag about how little it cost and you the viewer can do it too!!! Only $120 in materials!!! <shocked YouTube face> And then it turns out they have tens of thousands of dollars worth of woodworking equipment in a personal garage-turned-wood-shop. Cool, very DIY, thanks. Liked and subscribed.
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Ornery and Hornery posted:My fave social media trend is content creators doing DIYs or remodeling projects where they brag about how little it cost and you the viewer can do it too!!! Only $120 in materials!!! <shocked YouTube face> Hahaha I have the same reaction to some cooking videos. You too can make restaurant quality food for just 10 dollars. You'll need a Blender and a stand mixer. Pulls out 2.5k worth of appliances. You can make do with a ninja cup blender and some elbow grease but still.
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Ornery and Hornery posted:My fave social media trend is content creators doing DIYs or remodeling projects where they brag about how little it cost and you the viewer can do it too!!! Only $120 in materials!!! <shocked YouTube face> This was always my dad's chuckle at This Old House or New Yankee Workshop stuff on PBS. He still watched it a bunch, but would joke about "oh yeah, real easy Norm, let's not count that enormous shop you've got there."
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a neat cape posted:HARBAUGH Hell yeah brother, congrats
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a neat cape posted:HARBAUGH Cavauro posted:thinking about buying a gun. The juxtaposition of these two posts is  .
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Cavauro posted:thinking about buying a gun. Guns R Fun
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LeeMajors posted:Man, can’t believe starving a beloved franchise for three decades, trampling every ounce of good will they’d earned by winning fairly consistently in spite of their lack of resources, and then moving them a town with no appetite or history for said franchise went over like a wet fart. When I moved to Oakland, I was very excited to have three professional, major sports teams to take my (then unborn) children to when they got old enough. Anyway, Disney on Ice still runs here.
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Intruder posted:so I guess I should have let that last bit of onion go instead of trying to use my mandolin like a paring knife The blade hungers for blood, and blood it shall have.
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Intruder posted:so I guess I should have let that last bit of onion go instead of trying to use my mandolin like a paring knife Noooo, sorry about your fingers.
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Intruder posted:so I guess I should have let that last bit of onion go instead of trying to use my mandolin like a paring knife Oh nooooooooo. That's pretty similar to how I hosed my hand up with a mandolin, only difference is that I was using it on a parsnip.
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I need to replace the built-in cutting boards in my counter (they slide out like drawers) and really want to make my own, but I'm not sure I have the patience. Are the ones you guys made just glued on edge and that's enough? Or do you do any kind of joining? LeeMajors posted:Actual Honestly, I'm loving it. The schedule rocks, the calls have a decent mix of complex and easy where I'm not constantly freaking out, and the volume is tolerable. We'll see how I feel in 10 years, but overall best career move I've made. The only downside is I had to quit my part time fire gig because my city won't let me do separate job titles for the same employer, but I'm guessing that'll change in a few years when fire staffing starts to suffer from attrition. Well, that and the paycheck.
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:I need to replace the built-in cutting boards in my counter (they slide out like drawers) and really want to make my own, but I'm not sure I have the patience. Are the ones you guys made just glued on edge and that's enough? Or do you do any kind of joining? Just glued. There’s enough surface area usually to hold it all together. Have to make sure you use the waterproof wood glue, Titebond III. Cutting boards aren’t that hard to put together, it’s the getting them flat part that sucks. Get some mineral oil and apply liberally once you’re done.
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Intruder posted:so I guess I should have let that last bit of onion go instead of trying to use my mandolin like a paring knife I actually did the thing and got cut resistant gloves to fight against the mandolin, although I haven't had cause to use the mandolin since then. I'm hoping they will save me from this fate. I use the guard that came with mine but it always feels like I'm wasting food because you can't get everything cut up and it's so very hard not to think--well I can get a little more out of this.
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I have bad news for you guys. The Ted tv show is really loving funny.
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