I'm wondering if I really need a plainer and/or joiner. I see Norm on the Yankee workshop use his but he does some pretty advanced stuff. For example, I once saw a show where he visited a wood lot and picked out the trees he wanted. They were felled, taken to a sawmill where they were milled to Norm's specifications. When they arrived in his shop they still had bark on the edges and were very rough. Obviously, he needed to do some plaining on them. In another show he visited an old barn in Georgia which was torn down and he picked out the boards he wanted and they were shipped to Yankee country. I doubt if I will ever do anything even close to this. I go to Lowe's or Home Depot and buy dimensioned boards of pine, oak, or what ever, take them home and build the project. So, do I really need one? If I could only buy one, which one?
By the way, older shows of Yankee workshop are now showing on the D I Y channel. In the original P B S version where he used the barn wood he used a hand held metal detector to find nails so he could remove them before ruining his expensive equipment on them. In the D I Y version they showed him removing nails but the part about the metal detector was cut out. The shows have been cut down to 20 minutes so they can get in 10 minutes of commercials. Better watch them on P B S. Regards. Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
