Craig,
Indeed. Um, you don't own any rocking chairs do you?
My cat solved the rocking chair problem, she springs to the seat and then to
the top, and rides the waves. But then she may be planning ahead about the
tails of any potential feline interlopers.
Best, Jon
To get on or off this
Dear Ed,
I have a viol-playing friend who once had many cats. He called each
of them by the name of a 16th-century English composer - Tallis,
Cornish, etc. He avoided the name Byrd, because he thought a cat
called Byrd might confuse his children.
Best wishes,
Stewart McCoy.
- Original
Larry Brown (on his website) says that many of his tools are
antique, and superior to their modern counterparts.
The man's woodworking expertise is obvious (and probably
also not obvious).
So I wonder how it is that Craftsman, Black Decker, and Stanley,
with their engineers, experience,
Older tools were made of carbon steel which can be sharpened to a very
fine edge, but is soft enough to dull with use.
Modern tools use harder alloys which do not dull (at least not in your
lifetime with reasonable use), but can't be easily resharpened, reshaped,
and maybe can't be as sharp as
Herbert wrote:
Larry Brown (on his website) says that many of his tools are
antique, and superior to their modern counterparts.
The man's woodworking expertise is obvious (and probably
also not obvious).
So I wonder how it is that Craftsman, Black Decker, and Stanley,
with their engineers,
At 11:01 AM 9/22/2005, Herbert Ward wrote:
Larry Brown (on his website) says that many of his tools are
antique, and superior to their modern counterparts.
The man's woodworking expertise is obvious (and probably
also not obvious).
So I wonder how it is that Craftsman, Black Decker, and
Probably because they make a lot more selling slick-looking but poorly made
crap to consumers who don't know any better... Also, there isn't really a big
enough market for the more specialized tools to make it worth their while.
There are some very well made modern tools, just not by the old
Another thing is that a variety of useful tools are not commonly made
anymore. I like to watch Roy Underhill's show on PBS. He is always using
some antique doodad that nobody at Home Depot has heard of, and the modern
woodworker of the Norm Abrams school would have little use for.
I'm a
