The other thing that dawned on me was that before disaster shop struck I was having some burning issues with my blades. Upon closer inspection there was a fair about of pitch build up and a chipped tooth here and there. Over the past few years...like 4 or so...I have totally had the best intentions of sending them out for a sharpening and tune up, but again...cheap...so that never happened. So last night I had that AH HA moment...now is when I should have those blades in the mail so that when they show back up I have my wizbang new table saw to use them in, BRILLIANT!!! Why hadn't I ever thought of this before?
So this weekends projects not only include taking an in depth look/review of the website and how we can perk it up...I would say give it "pop" but I know the wife will eviscerate me with her kitchen shears and I think it's just best for everyone involved if we avoid that all together...so I'm going to stick with perk, cool? cool... So along with the website is a photo shoot in our new photo booth for curvy and lurvy as well as digging through the odds and ends that I've been stacking in the shop waiting for life to return to normal. I need to dig out some degreaser and clean off all the shipping oil slathered all over the new F-Clamps as well as the bottom dollar planes I picked up from WoodCraft...of which I'm still giggling about. I mean really who in their right mind would pass up a new #7 jointer plane for $48.00? I mean really? Who? Ok, ok...the catch is that they're Groz planes and may or may not be made with the most strict manufacturing processes in mind, but still, even if I drop in a new quality Hock blade and chipper I'm still taking money to the bank. Seriously...I picked up a #7, #5 & #4 for less than $85 bucks here people, we're a VERY long way off from Lie Nielsen. So with those cleaned of their shipping gunk I can evaluate just what is in store for them. I have no doubt it's going to be at minimum a few hours of honing the mill marks out of the bases as well as regrinding and honing blades, chippers and frogs to make these baby's useable for more than trimming toe nails, but hey... I got at least a few weeks before the shop will be back in a condition that I will be able to make any sort of dust...so I gots tha time...