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   habilis | Mar 17, 2009 12:13am | #1

   Great. Did you see that bench; solid as a r..., er log and the advanced multi-use clamping system? Their shops blow the one in "Can you say organized out of the water.

   
   

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   Edited 3/16/2009 5:18 pm ET by habilis

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   MKenney | Mar 17, 2009 01:53am | #2

   Someone sent me a PM after reading this thread. It was about buying lumber in CT. I'm afraid that email was accidentally deleted. If you sent it and read this, please drop me another email. I'd like that list of lumber yards. Here's my answer:

   There is Kellogg's Hardwood in Bethel, CT. Conway in Gaylordsville (just North of New Milford), and there's a place on Bacon Pond Road in Woodbury (I think it's called Cole Bros. Lumber). I've been to the first two and like them both. I've not been to the place on Bacon Pond Road.

   Matt

   This is my personal signature.
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   ASK | Mar 17, 2009 08:48pm | #9

   Matt,

   I sent you the email because you are in Newtown and I am in Great Barringto on weekends. Buy most of my hardwood at Berkshire Products in Sheffield, nice web site, some at Tallon Lumber in Caanan. Good Plywood at Herringtons in Hillsdale, NY and occasionally Lindell in Caanan.

   Thanks for your list, not familiar with any of them.

   ASK

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   ring | Mar 17, 2009 08:36am | #3

   Great film, thanks.

   David Ring

   http://www.touchwood.co.il/?lang=e&id=1

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   Lataxe | Mar 17, 2009 08:10pm | #4

   Matt,

   You wouldn't have a downloadable version would you, in wmv or some other common video file format? I'd like to show the film to my coppice working friends, some of whom have a laptop but few of whom have internet connection.

   Also, I'd like to watch it in slow motion, especially the spoon making section.

   Lataxe

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   MKenney | Mar 17, 2009 08:15pm | #5

   Lataxe,No, I don't have any copies of it. We're linking to a Swedish site to show it. In other words, it's embedded in our site the same way a YouTube video can be embedded.Sorry. MattThis is my personal signature.

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   davcefai | Mar 17, 2009 08:19pm | #6

   I'm afraid that I get neither sound nor video on flashplayer 9 under Linux.Any possibility of a link to the original site?

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   MKenney | Mar 17, 2009 08:27pm | #7

   There won't be any sound. It's a silent film. But there should be video. Here's a direct link.This is my personal signature.

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   Boogalee | Mar 17, 2009 08:44pm | #8

   I like the precision measuring device the shoe maker is using.

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   MKenney | Mar 17, 2009 08:49pm | #10

   Not sure if you're joking or not (it's always hard to tell on the internet), but that is pretty cool. Basically, it's a story pole that gives the location of all the mortises. Not a bad idea if you're making the same chair over and over.This is my personal signature.

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   Joe Sullivan | Mar 18, 2009 05:44pm | #11

   Very good fun. I had already gotten a link to the Swedish site from someone on the Galoot email list. Glad to see it here. The Swedes must have seen times in change and set out to document the old ways.

   I sent the link to a 70-year old friend in Sweden who grew up on a farm in Smalland. He very much enjoyed it. He emailed back that it reminded him of people he would meet as a child. He said that the old ways continued up through the war and then died out.

   Joe