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   alanplanesaw | Apr 02, 2007 04:20am | #1

   Chuck,

   Where did you find it?  How did it come to your attention.  I have looked for such a couple of times today from Lee Valley/Veritas. 

   I ordered their marking guage last year about this time.  Once I got all of it set up, I haven't had to change a single setting all year.

   Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

   Alan - planesaw

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   chuckh | Apr 02, 2007 04:29am | #2

   I was poking around on the internet and I googled "useless tools" and it popped up! :-)

   Actually, I had forgotten about their anual offering, but saw it mentioned on another forum.

     

    

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   highfigh | Apr 02, 2007 04:43am | #3

   They did it again. Every April Fool's Day, they offer a new tool that will never make it to the outside world.
   "I cut this piece four times and it's still too short."

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   chuckh | Apr 02, 2007 04:50am | #4

   Don't be too sure.  That's what they said about the magnetic tool belt  http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&p=53927&cat=1,43413,45992

   but I bought one.  Those rare earth magnets sucked all the fillings out of my teeth and it keeps sticking to the plate in my head, but other than that it works pretty good.

   -Chuck

    

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   highfigh | Apr 02, 2007 05:25am | #5

   You have steel fillings in your teeth? How does that mag belt work with your credit cards? Does your plate get hot when you go through metal detectors, too?"Lemme give you a tip- space-age plastics"."I cut this piece four times and it's still too short."

   Edited 4/1/2007 10:26 pm by highfigh

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   chuckh | Apr 02, 2007 05:46am | #7

   You have steel fillings in your teeth?

   Well that's what I get for going to a guy whose business card reads Blacksmith/Dentist. :(

    

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   BobMc | Apr 02, 2007 05:34am | #6

   Hey, Chuck,

   Wasn't it up there in PA, around Brewster, where some guy wore one of those tool belts into an abandoned mine, and it was several weeks before they discovered him stuck to a wall, covered with iron ore?

   I wore mine up on the roof when I needed to do a bit of shingle repair, and it was pulling out the staples faster than I could restaple.  Fortunately, I was able to get off the roof before I had to replace the entire roof.  Unfortunately, I couldn't get one of the tools to release (a cat's paw), so I put the belt in a shop vise to hold the belt while I pulled on the cat's paw.  Big mistake!  Finally, I just put the whole kit out on the curb for pickup.  But it was an SUV that attracted it.  I usually like Lee Valley tools, but I think they need to tone down the flux multipliers on that belt, or make a smaller model for those of us that don't have the strength to handle that belt.

   Thanks for your post! Brought back some bad memories!

   Bob

    

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   chuckh | Apr 02, 2007 05:55am | #8

   Wow, Bob, roofing shingle staples shooting up your pant legs!  That must have had you steppin' and fetchin'.  Like a "cat on a hot tin roof."

    

   Edited 4/1/2007 10:55 pm ET by chuckh

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   BobMc | Apr 02, 2007 07:00am | #9

   Nah, I wore it on the outside, so it wasn't a problem, and brass isn't attracted to the belt.

    

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   Dan1120 | Apr 02, 2007 07:24pm | #11

   The guy in the photo needs to be careful where he puts the plane!

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   KiddervilleAcres | Apr 02, 2007 10:20pm | #13

   How about the photo with the plane on the far left, upside down?

   Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres

    

   A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!

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   chuckh | Apr 03, 2007 01:42am | #14

   Well I'll tell ya that loaded down like that boy in the photo, you don't want to be moving too fast!  But then when you have it loaded to the 500 pound capacity moving fast isn't a problem.  Keeping your knees from buckling is, however!

    

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   forestgirl | Apr 02, 2007 09:14am | #10

   ROFL!!!!  I love their April Fools stuff, totally forgot to look today!  Thanks, Chuck!  (wonder how many people click on the yellow shopping-cart order button? -- I did just to see what would come up.  A big "Gotcha!")

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 
   

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   Bioman | Apr 02, 2007 08:32pm | #12

   I thought the part of the ad copy that stated "Once you've lapped your chisels and blades to a common thickness (a trivial one-time exercise)" was a hoot.

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   chuckh | Apr 03, 2007 01:45am | #15

   I know.  It's like, duh, doesn't everybody! :)