Sometimes, I get ahead of myself.
Added 2018-02-21 00:31:53 +0000 UTCFriends:
It's been a week. As most of you know, I had a table-saw injury on Monday. It wasn't that bad, but I spent the day in the emergency room, got x-rays and 4 stitches, and I have to see a hand specialist tomorrow.
Drag.
Then on top of that, I was running up the stairs from my shop on Sunday, when the damn things just collapsed out from under me. No joke, the stairs just fell apart and I fell right through them. We keep an old washer under the stairs, so I didn't fall far and I didn't get hurt, but I did spend the rest of the day rebuilding those stairs.
Then I had a drink.
But, I'm not the kind of guy to let these things get me down and I'm always thinking of new things to try in the shop.
Just yesterday, my neighbor (who is re-doing his bathroom) threw out a neat little scrap of white marble. It was cute. I took it home. I was struck by how much it looked like a sharpening stone...a lot like a sharpening stone. In fact, it looks just like my very nice, bone-white hard Arkansas stone. I've often thought that stone looked and felt an awful lot like marble.
Holy crap.
Could it be? Could there be a good honing material this cheap and plentiful? Just think of the video I could make!
So I grabbed a chisel, some oil and the stone. I did my usual thing, and with a beating heart, I felt the back of the blade.
No burr. Nothing.
I felt the stone. It was all torn up. Clearly, neither hard enough, nor sharp enough to be a sharpening stone.
It was a good idea, but good ideas aren't enough. Ideas have to work, too.
Tomorrow's another day.
Comments
Hey, welcome aboard! The stringers were the problem. Instead of being cut in a stair pattern, they were just 2x10s with triangles stapled to the inside. The staples were thin, too. I am super-luck they didn't give way all the dozens of times I've moved a piece of machinery or something. And yes, I reinforced EVERYTHING.
Rex Krueger
2018-03-07 00:16:22 +0000 UTCAm I missing something or am I right that those stair treads where just toe-nailed in from below? It looks from here as tho there was essentially nothing holding them on. They weren't through-nailed from the outside, nor do there appear to have been ledger boards. Conclusion: Stair-maker sucked and you were REAL lucky not to have been substantially hurt. I assume you added additional support to ALL the treads. :-( wow.
James Boatright
2018-03-05 22:38:42 +0000 UTCDang--your stairs fell out from under you? You've had a rough two weeks. Sorry to hear it. And bummer deal that your idea didn't work, but I like that you keep trying things to find out what might.
Jason Bailey
2018-02-21 16:03:23 +0000 UTC
