why don't you start
oh i don't know i um
i refinished a couple of
old uh dressers that were given handed down you know it's nice tongue and groove um
uh construction
uh
huh that's just i've been pretty successful with that
things you already owned or things that you've picked up just to do that
what
are they things you already owned or you pick them up just to do that refinishing
no i've done some other things too um you know
i've yeah i've done both uh i have had my wife's picked up a couple things saying uh boy if we could refinish that that'd be a beautiful piece of furniture and uh and we've done it a couple of times
yeah
i guess that we've been fairly successful with those that's uh that's a kind of low risk sort of project isn't it i guess
oh yeah
yeah that's a good way to get started
um i have a a um really nice desk a nicer desk than i could afford which i got because my sister who worked in a hospital uh liberated it after a fire and uh
um-hum
we stripped it all the way down and refinished it it turned out to be really nice uh pretty nice desk maple top i think or
um-hum
um-hum
or something of that sort
yeah i i put together um a um rolltop desk from scratch you know a kit
oh really
oh i'm jealous
still had to cut it and everything but yeah it's fun
uh-huh
yeah i've i do do things uh that
might be too crude to be called woodworking i've built my own deck and
uh-huh
um things like that
yeah i've i've done the same you know like the trim around the house you know the baseboards and things like that
and i
i definitely have begun to accumulate tools too my i uh
i picked up a bunch of Craftsman tools from the forties that my wife's father owned when he was alive and so i do have a band saw and a router and um things like that out in the garage but i can't say i use them very often
uh-huh
um i i'm looking at trying to get a router right now
they're handy uh they they come in handy at the most unusual times putting doors in is the time when i'm uh i bought myself a um
template for making mortices and doors and that's a whole lot easier than doing it with a chisel
but i've also i've also used them for building drawers where you uh for rabbeting and uh
i'll bet
because uh rabbeting on my table on my uh radial arm saw is a little bit uncertain
um-hum
so i got one for Christmas a few years ago and used it quite a bit for the first eight months i had it and now i i use it twice a year maybe
yeah my brothers my brothers used it a lot for making drawers
the big stuff
i don't know what what's your opinion of what a good router is like
uh i guess it
you know i had
because he was tell me like the ones that you dial in aren't all that great they've plastic parts and stuff
the ones that what
that you dial in on the side
uh i have never even seen i've never even looked at one closely and the the little use that i've gotten from my router i would say
um-hum
uh i would spend my money on the bits
uh-huh
um i have a i'd guess you'd call a medium quality Craftsman router and the um
how strong is it
it's strong enough for any job where you don't try to take more than say three eighths of an inch at a time
but the problem is that the uh as with any any time you buy um a a tool with as as as a as a package the bits that they give you are low end
don't they um-hum
um-hum
so the price of a good set of uh carbide steel uh bits is probably um i mean a a good set of bits is probably gonna run you a hundred dollars and uh um
if you're gonna use it for a lifetime i suppose it's worth it because um imagine if i go and sharpen them myself uh it won't last
and i've never had the bits sharpened
uh-huh
so that's a thing to consider is to
they they really get hot don't they
yeah and they they dull after a while especially i did some cabinets in um ash and oak and uh that that wears a bit down
uh-huh
we remodeled and saved a bunch of really nice ash cabinets uh which had been in the original remodeling of our kitchen
uh-huh
right
and i saved them and built an oven cabinet out of one and another cabinet out of another by using the faces and so forth and
uh routing hardwood will um take the edge off a cheap bit pretty fast so
yeah i've cut some one by eight oak before
boy was that fun big solid pieces of oak are just tough
right that's uh
and then you take the blade to the to get sharpened right
well that was you know with a with a circular saw like oh my gosh this gonna be fun
uh-huh
right
yeah
well i've used mine on treated wood and now all my blades need sharpening
yeah
because uh the treated wood will also chew them up
yeah treated wood can really make you sick too if you're not
