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which in fact i agree the vernier scale is the same on a micrometer as your pocket caliber just rather than rotary it is linear i love those pocket scales , for the shop , great tool for sizing drills holes and such enclosed is a little info Reading a Vernier

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good info thanks

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hey Ice love your signature , will forge for food , wish i could use it . but i would be afriad some one would take me up on it and with my forging skills i would starve to death

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amother one Although dictionary etymologies are virtually nonexistent, a plausible origin can be extracted from historical usage. "Bastard file" in current usage is a file of coarse cut (as opposed to a "finishing" file. However, its technically precise definition is "a file one cut finer than a "coarse file." Files are classed as "coarse," "second cut" and "smooth," from coarsest to finest. Thus, a "bastard file" is a cut in between a "coarse" and a "second cut." The word "bastard" functions here in its meaning as "irregular." So, a "bastard file" is a file that is neither "coarse" nor "second cut."

this is what i got so far As far as I know, the bastard file is so called because it is uncommon or unconventional, in the sense of being somewhere between rough cut (rasp) and fine cut (milled). In Australia, the word 'bastard' is used in the same way to describe a rustic person in a robustly familiar and affectionate way, as a compliment for being out of the ordinary and not a member of polished society. Also used in a less complimentary way to describe a mean-spirited boss.

nice, thanks

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you blade makers are phenominal , that has to take plenty of time to make i appreciate the disipline and envious of being able to endure what has to be painstaking process. you don't make it easy to criticise , even all your punctuation and spelling is correst in your post . throw us a bone will you

where did you come up with this idea ?

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oh by the way , that is a very nice lathe dog , do you have a job betwwen centers in mind or are you just making tools for something that comes down the pike , either is ok can't have enough lathe accessories

i am glad to see some where in the country they still have shops in school even if the kids screw stuff up they are still learning i still remember my junior high metal and wood shop then i went on to a vocational school to learn aviation mechanics since then they offer no machin shop trade in high school or vocational school and they wonder why manufacturing is going over seas duhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i have been a journryman machinist for 25 years and i still get great pleasure out of a well executed job

no my pot is fine , keep the fire maintained with a good supply of coal making coke, keep the clinkers out .

i use the square fire pot from centuar forge with dumping ascgat and clinker breaker it works ok no complaints

i got a related gift , doesn't seem so but it is dead on money i got one of those garwin gps's so when i travel to a hammer in or blacksmith demo i can just plug the address in and drive great tool. iotherwise i am kind of an anxious driver following maps

you thinking of buiding a gas forge, i built one of those michael porter bottle forges works well i made the 3/4 inch single burner

looks like a logging hook like the one in bp0392 hey smokeman i come to your area at the nottingham flea market twice a month near the herrs factory just womdering how far you are from there i live in claymont, about thirty miles form there sometime i would like to visit you shop , i love to see what others are doing . hope not to be invasive or forward chuck

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