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clay:
I really enjoyed this:

PonoBill:
Very nice. They're kind of hiding the sophistication of the shop, quick glimpses of serious machinery, long looks at simple block planes, but it's a good message and a very well done promo.

LaPerouseBay:
Nothing BUT 'sophisticated' tools in these videos PB, including Clay's.  "Simple" block planes are anything but.  Hand tools ARE 'serious' machinery.  As serious as an eight inch angle grinder with 40 grit - in the hands of Jimmy Lewis.         

Here you go Clay.

https://youtu.be/QPUPyuz_ink

https://youtu.be/ueFiy-uxI4Y

I'm a huge fan of the Amish.  Very, very fast builders. 

https://youtu.be/l8nyrP8bclI

CascadeSup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JVcE8gho4k

LaPerouseBay:
Yikes, that's a big wheel.

The first real carpenter I worked for is an old fart timberframer.  He also restores and maintains wind powered grist mills in New England.

He let me replace the spokes and rim in this wheel.  It had similar tenons at the rim.  The hub end was also tapered, and had double shoulders, like a little staircase.  Old time carpenters were studs.  25 years later, I may have the chops to build a hub like that, but it would take a month of head scratching and drawing.  Those old guys would just whack them out like nothing.  With no electricity.  I was lucky to work with old timey stuff early on, fascinating trade.  I remember looking down in that mortise with the double shoulders thinking "what the, how the, holy crap that's insane"  I wish I had a pic of that hole.  Got tighter and stronger with use.  Carpenters had mad skills back in the old days.  Very fast too. 

     

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