My least favourite job.....

[lurker]

I would kill myself If I had to Listen white working to the terrible british radio stations where all they do is just talk talk talk.

Is there anything at all that you're happy about?

I suspect he is rather happy stood in front of a mirror

 

[Kev]

Another 1 for painting - worse thing in the world.

Also second listening to talk radio. Radio 4 and 4 extra are great. Find listening to music all day makes my head hurt. Big fan of music but not as background noise. guess that makes me not fun either - and there's me thinking I was being intellectual!! #-o

 

[Zeddedhed]

BBC radio 6 Music for me. Love it.

I also have a whole bunch of playlists on spotify - one for hand planing, one for glue ups, even one for sharpening!!

 

[sitefive]

Yup Painting has got to take the cake...

 

[Sporky McGuffin]

That's the thing, I want just music not the damn talk shows all the damn time that why I don't even listen to UK radio as it's all just that- the damn talk shows all day everyday...

Nonsense.

 

[lurker]

BBC radio 6 Music for me. Love it.

I also have a whole bunch of playlists on spotify - one for hand planing, one for glue ups, even one for sharpening!!

Dear god! We will have bugbear and Jacob arguing about the best music to play whilst sharpening now #-o

 

[Zeddedhed]

BBC radio 6 Music for me. Love it.

I also have a whole bunch of playlists on spotify - one for hand planing, one for glue ups, even one for sharpening!!

Dear god! We will have bugbear and Jacob arguing about the best music to play whilst sharpening now #-o

I guess that it would depend if you're going freehand or using a guide.

My music tastes would probably give the 'owd man' a conniption fit.

 

[blackrodd]

Is there a reason you don't by it PAR? Surely this would save you days?

Adidat

Firstly the sizes are all different, so it would get very expensive.
Secondly I've yet to find a merchant who can supply PAR that is actually straight, free of wind or twist and properly square.

It seems to me that they put it through a 4side machine without first straightening it - or at least not to the standards I require.

Also, if I order it PAR and it arrives two or three days later it could very well be cupped. I tend to machine it down in two or three stages to make sure that it has time to settle and minimise movement.
Believe me this client is extremely fussy and he will check every single board for being flat along it's length and across it's width. Then he signs it off, I get paid and if it curls up after that it ain't my problem.

That's why you get the job, as you straighten and reduce carefully.
For cost cutting, the par suppliers will just feed into the 6 cutter, where it gets squidged flat and straight, feeds through and goes back to its original shape from the other end.
Regards Rodders

 

[Zeddedhed]

Is there a reason you don't by it PAR? Surely this would save you days?

Adidat

Firstly the sizes are all different, so it would get very expensive.
Secondly I've yet to find a merchant who can supply PAR that is actually straight, free of wind or twist and properly square.

It seems to me that they put it through a 4side machine without first straightening it - or at least not to the standards I require.

Also, if I order it PAR and it arrives two or three days later it could very well be cupped. I tend to machine it down in two or three stages to make sure that it has time to settle and minimise movement.
Believe me this client is extremely fussy and he will check every single board for being flat along it's length and across it's width. Then he signs it off, I get paid and if it curls up after that it ain't my problem.

That's why you get the job, as you straighten and reduce carefully.
For cost cutting, the par suppliers will just feed into the 6 cutter, where it gets squidged flat and straight, feeds through and goes back to its original shape from the other end.
Regards Rodders

Probably true Rodders. He used to go direct to a local supplier but got cheesed off after failing to find one straight lining in a batch of 20 or so. The supplier told him to stop being so fussy - the screws will pull it straight. The he came to me.

The other bonus is that if I'm careful with ripping I can often get enough long offcuts to make up a batch of mouldings for other projects.
In the load I posted earlier I've already faced and edged all the boards, ripped some of them down and crosscut to rough length and I've got 20 pieces 50 x 160 x 300 and 25 pieces 50 x 30 x 2450. The long bits will go straight through the thicknesser and then become mouldings. The 300 long chunks will be stashed under a bench until a use comes along.

 

[No skills]

Unblocking urinals.

 

[doctor Bob]

You need a 4 sider, bloody brilliant. Best purchase I ever made, what used to take a day now takes an hour.
If set up correctly the results are better than separates or an over and under.

 

[Zeddedhed]

You need a 4 sider, bloody brilliant. Best purchase I ever made, what used to take a day now takes an hour.
If set up correctly the results are better than separates or an over and under.

Not enough room Bob.

Also I don't do this kind of thing more than once a month (and I often give it to the apprentice to do as punishment for being young and fit and healthy)

 

[n0legs]

I would kill myself If I had to Listen white working to the terrible british radio stations where all they do is just talk talk talk.

I can post you a load of pills if that would help.

 

[rafezetter]

I would kill myself If I had to Listen white working to the terrible british radio stations where all they do is just talk talk talk.

did you read the bit about being able to listen to your own personal music selection or audio book?

Emptying my septic tank.

Did I win? :-D

no. having to unblock someone elses toilet.

 

[Jelly]

You need a 4 sider, bloody brilliant. Best purchase I ever made, what used to take a day now takes an hour.
If set up correctly the results are better than separates or an over and under.

Which 4-sider are you running? The Wadkin PAR where it goes through and back to do all four sides or a "proper" one?

Rodders criticism of Four Siders earlier in the thread was very true based on my experience:
most users will set the feed rate and depth of cut on the first block as high as they can get away with, then ramp up the pressure on the feed rollers until it grips the timber enough to hoof it through at that rate, great if you're doing PAR whitewood for B&Q, not so much for a customer like zedhead's.

My assumption is that yours has a straightening table on the infeed, and with careful control of the pressure on the feed rollers you're able to get it to actually straighten timber so long as it's not excessively warped.

 

[mseries]

finishing and sharpening.

 

[custard]

Making the ten or fifteen dedicated jigs that are required for each new chair design. It's easy to sink 80+ hours of work into them, you always justify it by thinking "this is the design, and I'll definitely make scores and scores of chairs from these jigs", but of course you always go on to make enough subsequent design changes that they become redundant!

 

[doctor Bob]

Which 4-sider are you running? The Wadkin PAR where it goes through and back to do all four sides or a "proper" one?

Rodders criticism of Four Siders earlier in the thread was very true based on my experience:
most users will set the feed rate and depth of cut on the first block as high as they can get away with, then ramp up the pressure on the feed rollers until it grips the timber enough to hoof it through at that rate, great if you're doing PAR whitewood for B&Q, not so much for a customer like zedhead's.

My assumption is that yours has a straightening table on the infeed, and with careful control of the pressure on the feed rollers you're able to get it to actually straighten timber so long as it's not excessively warped.

I have a SCM compact XL, yes it has a pre straightener, and part of the technique is to know how to use the pressure rollers and also be prepared to cut a bit wider strips or cut the boards in half. like any planer it can only plane a bow out to the tangents. The best thing through is because it's doing all 4 sides it is bang on square. Bloody great if used correctly.

 

[BearTricks]

Anything overly loud. Not because it bothers me personally but because I'm constantly nervous that I'll draw the wrath of someone with an axe to grind.

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[monkeybiter]

Grinding axes.