Yeah! Gorillas are endangered!

Given that industry likes deceptive trade names- ‘plexiglas’ for instance- transparent wood will probably be known as ‘lignoglass’ or some such nonsense.

Glass can be toughened up a bit by tempering, at a cost. It can be toughened up a lot by other methods up to being made bulletproof at costs both financial and in terms of compromises to clarity and adding a lot of thickness.

The question is whether ‘transparent wood’ can compete with glass in performance and cost.

Diamond stones are pretty much fine with anything you want to use. In a pinch, use them dry but wipe off the metal dust frequently (dry rag). In the shop where I don’t have a sink I use a spray bottle of isopropyl alcohol (50% seems about right). In the kitchen I use soapy water. I’ve seen oil used but I’d rather not have the mess.

Diamond stones don’t absorb so any liquid that can be cleaned off and isn’t corrosive or otherwise dangerous will work.

So for a few years I thought sharpening classes at woodcraft. Had a lot of new woodworkers come through. Here’s my take:

Keep it simple at first. Get a coarse stone and a fine stone. Diamond plates are great for starting out. They are reasonably priced, stay flat, cut fast and give good tactile feedback. Practice with those until you get it right. Then make yourself a strop with a scrap of wood and some metal polishing compound. Practice with that until you get arm hair shaving results.

Once you’re getting consistently good results with that setup you can think about expanding your equipment line up.

The anarchists toolbox

The funding for Ukraine is not the thing holding those things back. Republican regressive politicians are the thing holding those things back. We have plenty of money to do both.

‘Occupy’… ‘annex’

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Especially since one of the states- Hawaii- is not in the Americas

That settles it. People from the unites states shall henceforth be called “Doug”

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stay away from high Linux too. putin never sleeps.

I’ve had good luck with olde river hard goods. He’s on ebay, most social media and has an email list. Pay attention to the descriptions.

I would recommend buying a Stanley Bailey #5 from one of the old tool dealers online in fettled user condition. Read up on the use and adjustment of the cap iron (chipbreaker). If you search for David weaver cap iron you’ll find a lot of information.

No matter what plane you buy you’ll have to have your sharpening skills at a high level for it to be useful.

It sounds like the apps need to be able to browse an external index of federated communities.

Paywall

“So you don’t mind if I put a live Webcam in your shower?”

Sounds kind of like usenet…

This is the next arms race.