What Is Your Main Manliness

[Zorco]

So do I !
We win, oh and I sharpen my own tools so I'm now one up on you and I've done wieght lifting = 2.
I've stripped a few TVs in my time = 2.5.
I also have a nice smooth technique = 2.51 ish.

So your Main Manliness is grouping a set of other manly ingredients. Fruit salad manliness!

Edit: that phrasing is.......sketchy. [emoji51] sorry spog

 

[Zorco]

TomW: this thread just got its first listing on the soundtrack

I wear trousers.

I make crates, /quote]

I'm intrigued; what crates?

 

[Airgead]

I take those tools to the extreme of sharpening.
Over the years I have collected thousands of dollars worth of stones and gadgets for sharpening and have more books on it than I have brewing books.

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My setup is pretty simple. A good set of Japanese ceramic waterstones, a granite block for flattening the stones and one of those ludicrously expensive but oh so precise veritas sharpening jigs.

Nothing beats using a really sharp chisel. Except maybe a really sharp hand plane... Watching those curls come off the timber...mmmmmm

 

[Zorco]

https://youtu.be/kFLt0duNrgc

 

[Airgead]

Indeed yes.

 

[manticle]

I'm intrigued; what crates?

Crates to contain artwork.
Specialised crate making and fitout so probably a bit gay really.

However gay is about as manly as it gets.

I'll repeat this as often as it seems appropriate.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6xxiK6Z4eXs

 

[Zorco]

The more astute of you out there can already see that the manliness boundaries are not trying to be constrained...

 

[Dave70]

 

[GibboQLD]

Nothing beats using a really sharp chisel. Except maybe a really sharp hand plane... Watching those curls come off the timber...mmmmmm

I love the sound and the feel of a freshly sharpened hand plane over a nice piece of timber.

How about some woodworking porn? Nick Offerman shows off a handmade spokeshave on This Old House (skip to 3:27 for the good stuff): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrIk19omZtY&t=3m27s

 

[Airgead]

Phwoor!

I found a couple of old spokeshaves when we cleaned out the MIL's garage when she moved into a retirement place. Must sharpen them up.

 

[DU99]

i have seen the crate makers work..early in my worklife for 16 years i worked in railways,drove a few good's train's and most of the other time put trains back on the rails with cranes and hydraulic jacks.moved to maintaining a arts centre complex..have now retired

 

[Dave70]

Yeah, you wood working guys have got HUGE mannish balls I must say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30zO31Xwud8

 

[Airgead]

That's one heck of a verandah post...

Nothing like pushing your equipment to its limits. Though I would recommend maybe a little pre-rounding with an adze first... And maybe bolting the lathe to the floor as well.

 

[DU99]

Wonder if he makes "barrels" that way

 

[GibboQLD]

Wonder if he makes "barrels" that way

Speaking of, this is one subset of woodworking I'd love to get into at some point in my life.

Reckon I'd be keen to do it the old way like the Guinness blokes:

 

[Zorco]

I was just looking for this one. Those blokes are artist/machine hybrids. Great post

Natural first question. Does anyone in Brisbane teach barrel making. Sign me up if there is.

 

[Airgead]

I want to learn how to do greenwood chairs.

https://youtu.be/IQ9CgtxhaFI

 

[WarmerBeer]

I want to learn how to do greenwood chairs.

https://youtu.be/IQ9CgtxhaFI

Mad skillz.

I didn't know there even were that many tools.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Does being able to wank one handed count ?

 

[GibboQLD]

Does being able to wank one handed count ?