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Re: 200 or so Bucks!

Keystone! Let's argue about beer. Like accordions, all beer is good beer.

Anyone BBq'ing this weekend?

Craig

Re: 200 or so Bucks!

Actually, that machine is made by several different manucatures and is readily available in most wood working stores as well as wood working catalogs. I bought mine from Wood Workers Supply for about $200, just as you stated Claud. Yes, does make "perfect" miters.
Jude Moreau

Re: 200 or so Bucks!

With regards to John's comment. I really like the looks of hand fit dovetails. In my opionion, they are even harder to make than then a good miter.

Most might think they are gawdy but I think they look great and they are very strong.

Still, the builder makes what he thinks is the best for the application.

Still learning,
RPr

Re: 200 or so Bucks!

Dovetails!
Still the strongest way to attach a neck to a guitar, the Martin way. Done by hand takes real skill.

Re: Re: 200 or so Bucks!

Tongue-in-Groove
Tongue-in-Cheek
Buy new table router,table saw, mitre saw, planer, band saw, and 12-pack of Keystone Light 16 ouncers, called "pounders" in Castroville, TX, the "Little Alsace of Texas".
Tongue in beer can
Tongue some sawdust
build your **** corners any **** way you want to
Grab shotgun
Shoot some dove---tails
Buy extra 12 pack and some " Parisa" a raw meat, cheese, and onion pate' that Alsatians crave like Cajuns crave boudin
Sit down and play your box, with or without corners.
JB



Re: Re: Re: 200 or so Bucks!

JB ~ Sounds like you've got the elements of a good song cookin' there. Alsace sounds like a spot to experience! Parisa avec Pounders and some dove to shoot... what a nice mix of Franco-Germanic Texana!

I'm adopting the term, "pounders" and shelving the "tall boy cans of whoop ace."

We gonna have ta hook-up sometime (preferably in dove season!)

BTW, I checked my boxes. They are mitered. Claude is correct. They are sexy.

R!CK

Re: Re: Re: Re: 200 or so Bucks!

Let's not start talking about beer, now. That could really cause a ruuuukuccusss.

Now, beer has got to be dark and rich tssting. None of that light crap that looks like pee for me. Give me a Negra Modelo or even better an Anchor Brewing porter.

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Hey, you got a tune to go with that?

Re: 200 or so Bucks!

Try a lighter colored Dogfish head 90 minute IPA.
9%. The 120 minute is 20%, but $10 a bottle.
It's all in the malt. No malt, no flavor.

Re: Re: 200 or so Bucks!

As an amateur beer brewer I'm a stout man- Beamish,Murphys, Heck even a Guiness. Those 'Stones go down good too though! My Mouton box is mitred, but that was not the decision maker for buying it. I personally prefer mitres, but I don't think it makes a working box. If I were to try building my own, I would attempt mitres, but to each his own. Them mitres didn't make me play a great deal better either! Shucks!

Re: Re: 200 or so Bucks!

Yeah, I like Chimay and Maredsous, but... I can't enjoy the function of drinking them for hours straight -- doing things like limin', fishin', or shootin' pool. AND, as a man, it's also fun to pee several times in the backyard during these activities. A 4-pack of micro-brewed Hoppenschwarter Barking Spider Porter gives me like... one... maybe two shots at my neighbor's dog through the hole in the fence.

Plus, bottled brews just don't have that... you know, that sound when they get opened. "purkSHICKah!" And all those expensive bottled beers aren't twist-offs. They will mangle that stretchy flap of skin between your thumb and index finger -- at least on the first one until you hunt down something to open it with. On the 4th one, you forget it ain't a twist-off and mutilate your hand again.

That's why the cheap, light stuff is so alluring to me, not to mention a 30-pack of 'em costs the same as 12 of the heavy stuff. Plus, it's easier to strap on your buzz unit and do maintenance with the light stuff. I get tangled up with 5%+ malts and wheats and SHAZAAM! I'm off doing freaky stuff in the fish tank -- and not remembering it over breakfast the next day.

Life is complicated in the morning...

R!CK

Re: Re: Re: 200 or so Bucks!

Ha!Ha!Ha! Yeah I hear that! Dem "Tick" beers are good for sippin and sittin, But I Drink Keystone on a regular basis as my "matainance" brew. I like knowing that I can brew 5 gallons of stout for the price of two sixpacks though.

Re: 200 or so Bucks!

Fortunately there is a DFH alehouse right around my corner. All draft, some bottles.

Canned beer. Try Dale's Ale from Co.

I will be all grain brewing and BBq'ing this weekend!

Craig (burb)

Re: Re: 200 or so Bucks!

Boy, you sure can't beat those grain recipies craig! Its true brew, not syrup and sugar! Oh well, they all need to be consumed BBQ and drink a few? That sounds like a winner Those mitre cutters look pretty cool too.



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