Recent content by Ed Thomas

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    Greene & Greene Bungs

    Couldn't you have used a coarse hacksaw blade for the clamp?
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    A quick week forsure, Friday 26th

    Leaf cleanup
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    How to make a millstone

    Modern millstones are cast with emery and flint in the mix. IIRC they make them in Ethiopia.
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    I Think I been driving behind this guy before

    Twas a '77 no windows van that taught me to back in to parking spots.
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    Quick garden update

    We had one of those cats when we were kids. On occasion, Mumcat (mother of all the barn cats) would drop groundhog "offerings" at my mother's feet.
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    Stone Hinge

    Who else has walked among the stones (1971)?
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    Some more Steve good downloads and more and more

    I wonder how many noticed and said nothing, as is the case here.
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    Fubsy, I ain't

    At 6' and 160 ...
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    Finished

    If I didn't have the Jim Shaver pen I've been using since '03 ... nice Lynx .
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    Where were you during WOODSTOCK

    My mother was in the Newmarket hospital with a broken ankle when that was reported.
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    happy halloween

    Had my first T/T'er since 2005. Ack
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    How do I "tint" shellac?

    As I mentioned above https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/tools/supplies/finishing/wood-stains/20082-intense-aniline-mixing-colors They can be mixed with alcohol but better with water. I had a commercial photographer client who required 2'x4' sheets of BB stained for backdrops. All sorts of...
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    How do I "tint" shellac?

    Lee Valley has a yellow aniline dye powder
  14. Ed Thomas

    Scary afternoon!

    Ditto. I had a client who's marina in the British Virgin Islands got sucked out to sea. Hit me for almost $75,000. Lot of money back then, '89.
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    The worst job in the shop?

    Yup. In the print shop, kitty litter duty went to the lowest on the totem pole. (The shop backed onto a hydro greenbelt with lots of meese. Paper makes great nesting material.)
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