Hi Ed,
In a message to N2Qfd you wrote:

Ed if people didn't shake their head as you walk away there is
something wrong with you. LOL

Hijacking the post a bit as I"m interested in an aspect of wood working, While I'm not handy enough nor have tools to do anything like furnature
I carve small little whittles to pass the time. I've been working on chess figures for the last year and a bit and the goal is to gift them to a friend of mine who will still play a "teaching" game with me when in reality he knows every move I'll make after the third move. LOL

I took a short break from that when Doug Linker (a carving guy on you-
tube) did a tutorial on carving little blueberry's with faces, and that's been a lot of fun for a couple weeks. :)

Shawn

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Howdy Shawn,
The only Electrical Woodworking Tools here is a Jigsaw and Hand Drill that I can attach to a Stand Craftsman made if I wanted to use it as a Drillstand.

Got a Handsaw too.
Actually .My Wife can saw a straighter line than I can, but She can't measure worth a hoot.
The largest project we made is a Doghouse out of 3/4" plywood.
Oh, I forgot, the Wife can hammer a nail without bending it.
The Top of the Doghouse I measured a 6 inch overhang for it.
When we put it on top of the frame I measured where to drive the nails so they would go in (about) the center of the frame (using a Square Ruler) and we got the job done.

You are hand carving Chess pieces , that sounds like much more than I would try doing. Good Luck!

In the Navy another guy and I were assigned to the Compartment Cleaning Detail for a month and He showed the basic Chess moves to me.
That was years ago and my Chess skill is still at the basic level.

Good luck learning Chess.

As a kid when I played Checkers with my brother we would get Colored and White Buttons out of the Button Box for our Checker Pieces.
Ed
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Hi Ed,
On <Mon, 18 Aug 24>, you wrote me:

nails so they would go in (about) the center of the frame (using a
Square Ruler) and we got the job done.

Good stuff, I don't even think I could pull the dog house off anymore, I know at one point I knew how to do that basic stuff.

You are hand carving Chess pieces , that sounds like much more than I would try doing. Good Luck!

It's not that hard, Just remember this is a gift, so it doesn't need to be perfect,
heck so far not even my pawns are identical. They are close and you know
what they are, but that's about it. :)

Good luck learning Chess.

I'll never be good at it, I just play enough to keep my kid happy and she's teaching my grandson so I need to be able to stay sharp enough to give
the 8 year old a game. ;)

As a kid when I played Checkers with my brother we would get Colored
and White Buttons out of the Button Box for our Checker Pieces.

I remember doing that at my Grandmother's house.

Shawn


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Hi Ed,
On <Mon, 18 Aug 24>, you wrote me:

Good stuff, I don't even think I could pull the dog house off anymore, I know at one point I knew how to do that basic stuff.

It's not that hard, Just remember this is a gift, so it doesn't need to be perfect,
heck so far not even my pawns are identical. They are close and you know what they are, but that's about it. :)

I'll never be good at it, I just play enough to keep my kid happy and she's teaching my grandson so I need to be able to stay sharp enough to give
the 8 year old a game. ;)

I remember doing that at my Grandmother's house.

Shawn

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Shawn,
I would think making the Knight(s) would be the most difficult and time consuming task
At work I played chess with a guy who used the Knight to beat me in (I'd say) a dozen moves or less.
If I could take his Knights then I would have a chance to beat him.

The Doghouse was 3 feet square with a bottom, the Top was 4 feet square.
We made the entrance off-center.

Doing it together, My Wife made up for what I lack, and I did what was difficult for her to do.
We chose 3/4 inch CDX Plywood 'cuz we thought using 1/2" plywood & itrying to put Nails in the Top piece into 1/2 inch Frame would have lots of nails sticking out of the frame sides.

This phone only lets Me see four lines of text, and trying to scroll up to read earlier text sometimes has caused what I was typing to vanish.

Here on Earth Computers Alway Win because THEY have Inside Information.
And I have been humbled by them since I got the Commodore 64 w/ Floppy Drive and couldn't figure out how to Format a Disk.

All stories about Me are true, telling it as it happened is so bad no one has to make up anything to add when talking about Me.
Ed
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When I got in High School I didn't like setting in the seat in the Auditorium during pep assemblies, so I stood by the Stage Door after assembly waiting for the Principal so I could ask if he needed anyone to be there during assemblies and He showed me the Sound System and how to operate the Lights etc., I liked it better than sitting in the

Funny Ed,

Similar here. I was a stage hand in school and after that there was no more pleasure in the audience for me. Even later when I worked as an assistant to the Rabbi locally through COVID and keeping weekly services going for people it's awfully hard to go back to simply a spectator.

As for folks thinking your an odd duck, well I often remind people that the only place you're apt to find "normal" in the wild is on a washing machine...

Mal

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Hi Ed,
On <Tue, 19 Aug 24>, you wrote me:

Shawn, I would think making the Knight(s) would be the most difficult consuming task At work I played chess with a guy who used the Knight

They are the most fun to carve too though. ;)

Doing it together, My Wife made up for what I lack, and I did what
was difficult for her to do.

That's team work!

This phone only lets Me see four lines of text, and trying to scroll
up to read earlier text sometimes has caused what I was typing to
vanish.

I could not imagine trying to read/write echomail on a phone. Even on
a larger tablet that would make me crazy. :)

All stories about Me are true, telling it as it happened is so bad no
one has to make up anything to add when talking about Me.

Laugh, that's exactly how I feel. ;)

Shawn


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Funny Ed,

Similar here. I was a stage hand in school and after that there was no more pleasure in the audience for me. Even later when I worked as an assistant to the Rabbi locally through COVID and keeping weekly services going for people it's awfully hard to go back to simply a spectator.

As for folks thinking your an odd duck, well I often remind people that the only place you're apt to find "normal" in the wild is on a washing machine...

Mal

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Mal, A cousin called it a speckledtator.
Ed
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Another thing Mal,

qcen.org in Cincinnati Ohio called the area. the queen city.
Ed
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Hi Ed,
On <Tue, 19 Aug 24>, you wrote me:

They are the most fun to carve too though. ;)

That's team work!

I could not imagine trying to read/write echomail on a phone. Even on
a larger tablet that would make me crazy. :)

Shawn , All that I can say is: "No one can drive Me crazy because I already been driven.".
Ed

Laugh, that's exactly how I feel. ;)

Shawn

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