FAFO
Manufactures as a group say replace at 10 years but they have recanted that opinion by not having one anymore.
A regular pencil works fine with smooth finished wood, not so much framing things with rough cut lumber. I don't have any pictures of my grandpa running it, but this is his old sawmill, at my parents farm. He was a logger and a carpenter, and everything we built growing up came off that saw.Yes. Yes you do. Nothing sharpens a pencil like these. Grinds instead of shaves….
I don’t like the carpenter pencils. I like a regular skinny pencil for carpentry and such
I began inside trim at 13, my Uncle Gary was a Trim Carpenter for a huge builder and he had me cutting and installing Crown by the time I was 14. He used regular pencils and I always emulated him.
I’m still a damn good trim man.
Kristian
I know a smidge about framing with rough cut lumber…..still prefer a skinny pencil
My whole shop was built with sawmill SYP.
And I’m sure it was all full cut length and width, not like the crap we have to deal now. Can remember taking logs to a couple saw mills growing up. Most run by belt pullies, either stationary or an old farmall, or A/C tractor . No OSHA involvement, you learned early in life to respect equipment……
Please, if you're going to take LSD back away from the design table.
Good grief, 73 octane...did they even have 5 to 1 compression back in the day?
I put a lot of hours in on a mill like that when my buddy was building his cabin. For as simple as they are it’s amazing what they would cut.
I forget the name of the place.
It's near the South East corner of Sunset Boulevard and Mountain Vista in Las Vegas.
Love me some good spam musubi.
6.+ but lead was a great knock suppressant.
We had no idea that at the time living the best of it
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