ki0ho
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Dog gone you AL.....the wife saw your post and pics of the house.....and started to chewing on me about finishing up making trim for the living room windows....[rough wood has been in the shop for two years]....and by the way how about her sewing shelf....[wood in the shop] ....also...ok so I go out and pull out my little plainer fire it up and start plaining...just need 9 -8 foot ceeder and then through the shaper and ready to cut and put up....2 boards through and BANG......bearing on the knife cylender locked up andtwisted the shaft off....now none of this would have happened if she hadent read your darn fancy well thought out artical!!!! 
a man would have thought she would feel sory for me and let the whole thing drop.... but noooo she still wants the darn stuf finished......sooo I called grizzly parts...holey shit!!!parts cost more than a new plainer!!! so now I have to go to springfield and pick up a new plainer[and a drum sander while I there] all because of your fine artical!!!!.........Did I mention it sure looks like you are a fine wood butcher....good looking job you have done there AL.....Mom says she wont permit me to take pics of this place until it is FINISHED.....It aint fair I tell ya
a man would have thought she would feel sory for me and let the whole thing drop.... but noooo she still wants the darn stuf finished......sooo I called grizzly parts...holey shit!!!parts cost more than a new plainer!!! so now I have to go to springfield and pick up a new plainer[and a drum sander while I there] all because of your fine artical!!!!.........Did I mention it sure looks like you are a fine wood butcher....good looking job you have done there AL.....Mom says she wont permit me to take pics of this place until it is FINISHED.....It aint fair I tell ya
Then you do not want her to see my latest project . Its a built in dresser system in the master bedroom complete with automatic lighting when the doors open .I started on it today . The "blue Pine" boards are planed and glued up in the shop drying now .Tomorrow I start ripping and tearin!!!!
When we first came down to the lake...was going fishing but not catching much...an old cajin said son....Cat fish are just like wemon.....you give a wemon what she wants and she will give you what you want.....and followed his guide and started catching fish......and it works like a charm here at the house!!!!!she wants large platters .......I get large lathe......she want a large cradle for the grand daughter......I got a new band saw!!!!! Now every time I see the cajein he asks if Im still catchen fish.....I answer YesSir
mom and I have been married sence 1964....seems like last week to me.....and what ever she wants she is going to get.....if I possably can get it for her...!! she will ask can we build in a pantry?and I will squeel like a stuck hog!!!cant dont have this or that.......or Ill say why should I do that? I aint had any habanero bread in a coons age!!!! She will come back with ......cause I dont have my pantry built yet.....wont be long till Ill smell bread in the oven. and her pantry was built. If it wasent for her..I would not have a use for much of anything.... call it the ramblings of an old man who has had a great life.........
BUT if my experance is any indication you are not done!!!