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Introduction & Sponsorship
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Hosts' Return & Updates
00:00:48
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the show. Back and better than ever. Yeah, in this hot office. We turn off the fan for you guys. Yeah. The only new. Yeah. It does sound a lot better without the fan on.
00:01:05
Speaker
I can hear it. I can hear it when I talk. Yeah. That it's cutting out the fan and cutting out some of my speaking. Yours not so much. I don't know. Yeah. I just have to do with the whatever, whatever wavelength we're speaking in. Yes.
00:01:25
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So yeah, we're back. A lot, a lot going on since, um, since we, since we last spoke a tremendous amount has, has gone on some big, some little, just a lot of interesting stuff for us.
New Laser Machine Arrival
00:01:37
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Yeah. So last we spoke, we were getting ready to receive the laser. That's where we left off. That feels like a lifetime ago now. Yeah. There's a lot, a lot's been going on.
00:01:50
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So the laser did show up pretty shortly after, pretty shortly after, pretty soon after finishing the podcast, if I remember correctly, like within, I don't even know, 15, 20 minutes.
00:02:06
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Yeah, that's a big blur now. Yeah, so it showed up and it was in a big crate and the crate was sideways in a box truck. So there was no access for the forks. Who built this crate?
00:02:26
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in the direction that they did and why, I'm not quite sure. So we had to get unorthodox with it as per usual with our machine deliveries.
Challenges with Laser Crate
00:02:38
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You're quite the forklift operator now, I have to say. I'm unofficially certified.
00:02:44
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Because you really had to like just, I mean, first off, our forks are a little uneven because one's bad. Like three inches uneven. One's higher than the other. So Jeff had to like just grab like an inch of material hanging over the side of the pallet and sort of drag this 1000 pound load to the end of the
00:03:11
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to the end of the truck. I mean, it was it was quite a feat. Yeah, we I was able to pick it up a little bit off of this tiny little ledge that there was, you know, between the the end of the crate and the skid, there was like a one inch space and we shoved some blocking underneath a bit. And then I got underneath and dragged it out. And then we did the old
00:03:35
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liftgate forklift tag team combo to get it down to the ground. And then the thing was too big to pick up with the forklift anyway, because the crate was, you know, just slightly bigger than the machine. The machine is 60 by 85, bigger than a super queen mattress.
00:03:54
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Yeah. So even, yeah, it's like a California queen. Um, so even at six feet deep, uh, five feet deep. Now it must've been more than that. Yeah. Well, the crate was wider than the machine. Yeah. Not by much though. No, no. So the direction that the forks were.
00:04:15
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was only, should only have been like 60 inches, maybe 64 inches. Yeah. Our forks are 42 and you know what it was, I was picking it up from the front of the machine and all that, a lot of that stuff is in the back of the machine. So, you know, all the weight, if I had been able to get to the other side, which would have been impossible because of the way it was in the truck, I probably would have been able to pick it up with 42 inch forks, but
00:04:38
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the weight was just all off. So we, same thing we did with the edge bander forklift on one side, pallet jack on the other side, wheeled it into the shop, uncrated it. And then I didn't think of this. I probably could have gotten around to the other side, but it was blocking the, there was no way to get to the other side of the forklift. You left out the fact that the packing material
00:05:02
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was like an inch bigger than the than the whole oh yeah it was just like in there with like a little bit of cardboard all the way from the other side of the world yeah with a laser tube you know which is extremely fragile and could break you know
00:05:18
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and four screws on the deck. Yeah. Luckily it's so heavy that it's like self-supporting and feeling. Yeah. So yeah, so we got it uncrated and we had to put some two by fours on top of the forks, sticking out the other side. Then we put a ratchet strap around the two by fours and then
00:05:35
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Strap that to the mast of the forklift to lift it off of the pallet. Yeah, it was another one of those. Yeah, and they want a video like unboxing, set up kind of thing, I think. I don't know what I'm going to say. Like if you don't own a forklift, good luck. Yeah. And if you don't own a forklift with, you know, six foot forks, good luck.
00:05:59
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We did have a forklift service yesterday. Thank goodness. Our first scheduled maintenance on our 1989 Clark. What was that to his name?
Forklift Maintenance & Issues
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I can't remember now. I don't know. He was cool. I wish that he would be our regular guy.
00:06:16
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Yeah, he was nice. Young young guy, probably in his, I don't know, mid early 20s. I'm assuming he could have been older for all I know, but he looked young and he seemed seem young, a little timid at first, but he kind of warmed up to us a little bit. Is that our front door? Might have been. You want to check it? Yeah, I'll check. I'll pull out the 12 gauge. I got your back.
00:06:50
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No? Somebody was knocking on something. The package delivery service around here is real sketchy. Yeah. It sounded like this. Yeah. Um, Oh yeah. So he, he did the schedule maintenance on the forklift, which we signed up for a plan. It's every six months we get the schedule maintenance for 150 bucks, which is like the best deal going. Yeah. He was here for,
00:07:14
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Two hours? Easy. Yeah. Maybe the first time because it hadn't been touched probably in freaking 30 years. Um, but you know, they like lube the mast and lube up everything and check everything. And he found the source of our leak, which is the hydraulic cylinder for the side shift. It's a very small leak. Um, so we're supposed to get a price on that. The contactors in the back are
00:07:39
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are pretty shot, which I think is probably that gas pedal problem that I'm having and maybe even that lift. Yeah. Cause that kind of is how the whole thing operates. Yeah. Well, and when it doesn't go and I have the thing, it goes tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. So that's the contact you're trying to make contact to tell it to go. Um, and Oh, and the more of the police is, is jacked up.
00:08:01
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Yeah. And it's kind of like rubbing the sheathing off the hose. Yeah. So we'll see, you know, I'm sure they're going to come back. It's going to be a couple thousand bucks or something, but yeah, we don't want the forklift to break down. No, no. And there's a couple thousand bucks now getting a different forklift or a new forklift as a whole time and money suck.
00:08:21
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And he said he was really surprised at how good a shape ours is in because of its age. Yeah. It's only got 1700 hours and it's 34 years old. He said he sees a lot of like 2018's with 5,000 hours. So it's got a ton of life left in it. You know, you use new tires at some point it seems like and be nice to have new forks. That's what we'll see. They're supposed to come back with us, come back to us with some prices.
00:08:48
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So yeah, back to the laser. We got it over to where the old laser was. We took the move that which is just sitting in the middle of the shop now like it wasn't the old shop. Right next to the Quincy and Saturday this past Saturday I came in and
00:09:08
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and hooked it up, you know, had to fill up the chiller, hook the hoses up, take all the pack, you know, they zip tie the axis and stuff like that so it doesn't get all jacked up during shipping. It's a nice little red ribbon in there. Yeah, yeah, that actually that's all there was was that ribbon. They didn't really zip tie anything.
00:09:29
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But I got it fired up. It does fire. We haven't done anything with it or even cut anything with it aside from I fired the laser twice just to make sure that it's actually firing and it is. I jog the head around a bunch and move the table up and down.
00:09:46
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So it is working. We just got a lot of shit going on and we're supposed to be filming, you know, we're supposed to be making content around this thing. So I don't want to do something and then have to do it again to get it on film. Like I'll just do it all at once. So I'm thinking we'll probably cut a today's craftsman sign. That'll be like the first thing that we try on it. Aside from obviously we'll do some test cuts or whatever.
00:10:16
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And then we'll have to get into the boxes when the material shows up, which is probably about another week or two weeks out. So that was Thursday.
00:10:28
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Yeah, that's only one day past the podcast. Not even. It's the same day. Friday. Uh, what the hell did we do Friday? We went somewhere, didn't we? We went to RT. Oh yeah. Yeah. So Friday we, we, uh, left the shop at six o'clock, drove three hours and 15 minutes out to our first stop picture rocks, Pennsylvania to Louis lumber products.
Visit to Louis Lumber Products
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Yeah, I got my pads right here got all our swag still on the desk I like having like about four like look I got stuff on this this this I know I Don't like having to take off the top sheet to get to the next one if I'm if I'm still trying to keep track of it
00:11:10
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So Lewis Lumber Products is a lumber supplier and they do custom milling and custom molding, stuff like that. So we met Keith, who is the president and he took us around.
00:11:30
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for like about ninety minutes yeah it was it was a very thorough tour he was really open about all kinds of things regarding the business yeah super cool guy he was a i don't know if he was a was he a buyer or salesman for rex i think he was a salesman yeah for rex lumber over here in in uh
00:11:51
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Englishtown, New Jersey for a long time before he got with Louis. I think, I forget what the story was. If you listen to episode two of the RT Machine Company podcast, and we highly recommend the episodes really good. He was the guest and he goes through the origin stories. I think he started it with one of the Louis's and then I don't remember if they passed away or maybe they're still a part of the company. I forget, but
00:12:21
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Basically, he's he's running the show for the most part now, I believe. And they have the hardwood rack dot com, which is their online retail division of the company. So you can go buy like the way we get the stuff from Okoch. You could go in there and buy pieces of wood to do, you know, smaller stuff with.
00:12:41
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Project style stuff. Yeah. So I'd be interested in talking to Keith on the next run of boxes about doing the material. You know, I don't know. Pricing wise, how competitive it'll be. But, you know, I wouldn't want to abandon Oak Hooch, but Lewis is a little closer to home. Yeah. Yeah.
00:13:00
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Yeah, they're just starting to get into this sort of like retail hobbyist and garage and small DIY kind of marketplace. Yeah. I forget when they open the retail part. I think they've had that for a long time. What did he say?
00:13:22
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15 years or something. I forget. They have like a walk-in retail store where you can just buy. All S4S stuff. Yeah. It's a really nice display. Yeah. Slabs, moldings. You can go in and buy. I don't know if they'll cut. They did have a saw. So I guess you can just go buy like five board feeder, two board feeder or something.
00:13:47
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But yeah, cool, cool place, old brick building in the front and then, uh,
00:13:55
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You know, there's an old building that was a kiln. You got to listen to the podcast. You know, I don't want to ruin it for you either, but really cool. Big wine, a 12 inch molder, you know, ironwood finishing planer running like they were running it at 50. It probably runs double that. I had to guess we were jealous of Yates roughing planer. They got the vacuum lifts, lifted up three 16 foot boards at a time, dropping them on the
00:14:26
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conveyor belt to run through the rip saw. I mean, really, really freaking cool. They're cutting their own knives. Yeah. They have a wine egg knife grinder that balances the, we're looking at the head balancer. I mean, crazy stuff like crazy. They had a band saw that was 15 feet tall. It had like a four inch wide blade on it.
00:14:47
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I know that thing was massive, right? Yeah, with the resaw, you know, a powerful, like double power fed resaw. Yeah, crazy. That was that was really cool. Go out and see that.
00:15:03
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Yeah. One thing I wanted to, you know, in case people don't listen to the RT podcast with Lewis on there is one little bit information that we learned. I'm sorry, I keep calling him Lewis because it's Lewis Lumber. The stuff about using found wood, like pallet wood,
00:15:23
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Um, when, when wood is kiln dried, it kills all the insects and things like that in there, which is a really important step. You're going to bring this wood and this wooden object that you create into your home. Um, you could accidentally infest your home.
00:15:40
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Yeah, that was one of the things that I never thought about was that, you know, when you're buying not even pallet wood, but just wood that some guy milled up, if they're not using a high heat kiln, yeah, there's there could still be bugs and stuff in there.
RT Machine Company Tour
00:15:52
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Yeah. Yeah. So it was really interesting. And I thought war is passing on to anybody who's who's listening out there. Yeah.
00:16:01
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That was a bit of, that was Friday morning. Then we got to RT, which was just down the road in Hughesville. Yeah. And you know, we've been friends with RT, you've heard us talking about them and they sold us, they facilitated the sale of our hedgebander, our Sohisa. Yep.
00:16:24
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We know Brian and Ron and we got to meet everybody else there with Brenda and Corey. Wait, Brenda. No, there's no Brenda. Jill. Brenda's from FES. Brenda, I forget the other woman's name who was at the first desk. Cody, Dean, Eric.
00:16:48
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Ron, of course. Yeah. And Brian. Yeah. It's great going out there because it really reinforces the relationship. You know, it was, it was totally worth the trip. Oh yeah. Sat down, had a nice lunch. Yeah. They treated us to lunch. I was spaced out texting Austin for me. So if I'm saying things that you already said, stop me. No, that's all right. But yeah, we, you know, walked around and looked at everything they have. It's crazy.
00:17:17
Speaker
Yeah, so they are the US's or the Northeast's largest. I think it's North America. North America's largest used machinery dealer. I think, yeah, just machinery dealer in general. Because of the square footage. Like 80 or 100,000 square foot their shops. Peter and Woodworking Machiner, the huge inventory of both new and used industry top manufacturers. 80,000 square foot warehouse stocked with over 600 woodworking machines.
00:17:47
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Yeah. It was, you know, it was really cool seeing all these things that, I mean, you sometimes don't even know they exist like a machine that does X, Y, and Z. It's like, Oh, and, and the thing with RT is.
00:18:03
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They they'll take a machine that is already crazy, intricate and massive and they'll modify it. They'll say, you know, I want these things to come in from the right instead of the left. And then I want it to apply glue here and press on this laminate. And then I want it to, you know, come out this other side and
00:18:23
Speaker
Yeah, they'll take a machine that's a hundred years old and bring it up to the new standards with all new electronics and controls. And it's crazy. Yeah, it is pretty amazing to think they've assembled that much talent and expertise out there just to know that those things are possible. You know, we're sitting there talking and I'm like thinking to myself, I'm like, never even imagined that these things were possible. Like we think about like, oh man, imagine.
00:18:51
Speaker
Imagine if we had a machine that could do this, but it's like, imagine if we could just ask somebody to make a machine that does this and they do it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they make all their own parts. They got a metal shop, they mill, they can mill gears, they weld, they paint, they finish, they will create controls. So there's computerized controls and wiring.
00:19:14
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And not only that, they also sell new machines from all these different brands, so they have to have a huge knowledge base about machines that A, don't even exist anymore, and B, all these new machines and the new technology, you know, in the not the most recent episode, because that's one that we were on.
00:19:34
Speaker
Uh, the one prior to that, you know, they were talking about the Alndorf handguard and like, you know, they all have to school up on all these new things that come out constantly. So, uh, Brian actually sent an email over the other day of, uh, what was that brand that it was Pauline and then it became some of them. Yeah. It's, um, I should know this because it's, uh, be now.
00:19:59
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Because it's female. Yeah. F-I-M-A-L. Concept 350. Actually, I forgot to respond to this, this email, but it, let me see if I can turn this. It's insane. It's like a panel saw, like a horizontal panel saw, but I can't have the audio on because it'll probably sound horrible. And also it's funny because it's an Italian machine, but it's in German.
00:20:32
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So it's a horizontal panel saw, but it has like this crosscut fence and stuff. You can just like stick a piece of wood in there and it'll come by and chop it. It's got all these crazy lights. It's like, looks like it belongs on a spaceship. Masterwood, that's what Tom's CNC was.
00:21:00
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So pretty cool. It's called the female concept 350. If you guys look it up, you could see what we're talking about, but you know, it's like the lights turn red when the thing starts to move down, then it, it cuts bevels and it's crazy. You put the wood down and it clamps. It's in place and these little, these little flippers and stuff. I don't even know what the hell they do.
00:21:29
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Like some kind of stop. And then it goes. I'm looking at it like, man, that's a lot of stuff that could break. That's what RT is there for. Yeah. But some of these machines and that's the other thing we didn't talk about RT is, look, this guy's like ripping rough lumber through it.
00:21:56
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You know, these things are built straight lining it. They're built to such a high standard, these type of machines that
00:22:04
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know, we look at it as something that will break. I mean, look at that. He just, he just re-sawed a frigging little piece off of it. Typically those things are built for high production environments. Yeah. They're not going to sell. This is an industrial machine. If it breaks down, well, guess who's never going to buy that machine again? All of the people who are buying these types of machines.
00:22:27
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But yeah, that was the other thing about RT is, you know, is the service like they have a huge service division with like, I don't even know what they have, like 15 trucks on the road or something. Yeah, I think they said they had like 30 something guys in the service department, right? Yeah. So they have guys that travel all over the country, you know, literally coast to coast to go work on people's machines and they're contracted out by a lot of these big manufacturers to service their machines.
00:22:53
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So, you know, Brand X, you have a CNC from Brand X or whatever. Panel saw from Brand X and you contact them. You're having issues while they contact our teens. They can you send out a tag. So, I mean, they're true experts in all this stuff. And what's cool is they come to our little shop. Yeah.
00:23:15
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You know, the very approachable. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they're like they're working with million dollar machines and, you know, you can buy a Laguna bandsaw from them if you want. Right. And I'm sure the service is the same. Yeah. I mean, that's what we found.
00:23:33
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So that was our Friday. Um, we got back here. Shit. I don't even know. It's seven 30 at night. Something like that. Um, you drove like six and a half hours. Yeah. Yeah. I'm getting used to that. Um, then Monday was the day that our hammer Sanders showed up.
New Hammer HS 950 Sander
00:23:55
Speaker
So that came, um, about a nine 50 S is that what it's called? Uh, HS nine 50 HS nine. Yeah. Horizontal sander nine 50, I think is the, the diameter of the belt. Let me see. I'm 50 divided by 25.4 millimeters. Our friend, the metric system 37. No, that's wrong. Uh, maybe it's like the length of the platen. It's 37 inches. That would make sense.
00:24:28
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I don't know. Anyway, they call it the HS950. Yeah. Wait, wait, 25.4. Wait.
00:24:36
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No, I was going to say maybe it's the in millimeters, the height, but it's not. That'd be two. That'd be three point seven inches. I don't know. It's something. It stands for something. So, yeah, we got that. That was that was packed. Like the sanding head and motor was one unit and then the base was a couple. That's the one thing that everybody complains about, about that sander is that the base is kind of shoddy.
00:25:05
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I say the quality of it is very good, the base, but it is like, you know, when you're putting it together, you kind of seem like, man, this is just like three pieces of sheet metal. Minimalistic. Yeah. Then you put the top sand, sand or motor section on top and then put the back on. So it's it's kind of sketchy at first. But once you get it all together, it's super solid. What's your first impression of the machine? For two grand.
00:25:31
Speaker
I mean, like shipped, it was like twenty one hundred bucks or something. We got it on sale. I don't think it was a very significant sale. So let's say twenty five hundred bucks out the door. You can't tell me that there's a better quality built sander than that for that price. There's no way. Because if you look at Grizzly or Jett or Bailey or South Bend or whatever name any of those. Laguna. Yeah. And you look at their Sanders.
00:25:57
Speaker
in that price range, the specs aren't comparable. And I know the build quality is not comparable because that thing is nice. Yeah, because we have an old sander that's kind of built that way. It's a wood tech. Taiwanese Sanders. Yeah.
00:26:14
Speaker
you know, when you look at those import machines, so the hammer line hammer is made by Felder. And, you know, format four is the top of the line, Felder is the midline and hammer is the consumer. Yeah, like the hobbyist line. I guess they kind of marketed us. It's an Austrian company.
00:26:36
Speaker
These machines are assembled in Austria, from what I understand, but the parts are all imported. But if you look at any of these imported Taiwanese or Chinese built
00:26:49
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tools and you look close, the castings are super crusty. The welds are all real ugly. The paint job is bad. Um, there's significant difference. I mean, significant. This machine is clean. It is super clean. There's not, you know, the one thing I noticed is where those brackets were holding it to the crate. You know, they had rubbed a little bit of paint off. Like that was the only thing I noticed where I was like, Oh, you know, it's, you know,
00:27:18
Speaker
Because whenever you buy a new machine, you know, whatever, like the wide belt sander, you know, we spent like sixty five hundred bucks on that. You get it and you spend all this money and then you start to look and you're like, oh, man, you're like disappointed with all these little details. This thing, you know, the little locking knobs. I don't know what you call those like almost ratcheting, you know, right. You can press the button and it returns on itself.
00:27:44
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No, like, well, it's the kind where you would pull it out to, like, reset the position on the clock. I don't know what they call those. Like a like a like a tea, not a tea handle, like a lever handle. Yeah. You know, you know, that they use on all to lock stuff down like they're made out of metal. They're not plastic.
00:28:03
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They're all made out of plastic. I mean, yeah, just like little details like that are nice. The way that the bed moves up and down and moves super smooth, the way that the dust shroud. It's like twice as thick. Yeah. It's just, it's really nice. I couldn't be happier for the price.
00:28:23
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plowed through the material like nobody's business. Yeah. It's three horsepower. The one that we have is one and a half. I think so. Yeah. And, uh, we didn't realize until yesterday that we could have wired that up to 20, which will probably give it some more maybe, but, um,
00:28:40
Speaker
It was sorely lacking. Yeah, non-oscillating. So this one is oscillating. It's six by, I think it's 99 is what it works out to be. Lengthwise. Not 950. Yeah, I still don't know what 950 is. Let me see. They have a spec. I think it's like 1900 and let's see.
00:29:05
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It's a sweet machine and I'm looking forward to using it, believe it or not. Yeah. On the boxes that is which are coming up. So it's still on sale. $1,995. And I don't know if they still have it, but we got freight for 150 bucks, which was a good deal.
00:29:28
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And I think we got tax exemption. I remember. Oh, so the belts are 25 15. So just under a hundred inches. Yeah, enough. Wait a minute. 25 15 divided by 25.4 99.015748.
00:29:55
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Makes sense. So 99 inch belt. Um, and I was surprised if you look at the sanding belts on elder group website, so you get a, uh, where's it say a pack of five, $37 and 40 cents. That's a good deal.
00:30:20
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Even on Amazon, the crappy ones are, you know, you could pay that much for five. Yeah. Yeah. Those belts weren't the best that we were using either. No. And it was always like, I always forgot to order them. So we needed them on short notice and we were using two 40 and, um,
00:30:36
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We should do some experiments this time and see how low we can go with both sand papers and get a good finish, but using 240 and then sand it back to 180 with the orbital. Um, so we were buying three packs of six by 89, 80, 120 and 240. So we have about a billion and a half. There's like 40, 80 and 100 grip belts up there.
00:31:01
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Oh man. Yeah. Cause I went up there to write the ad. If you're in the market for a really sweet used wood tech, I had a bargain basement price green and yellow colorway. I know where you can find one. Kingsburg, New Jersey.
00:31:21
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We just got an email come in. They want to get the, they want the vanity in the mirror ASAP. I don't like bursting people's bubbles. I don't know. Everybody wants to jump to the front line.
00:31:39
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Yeah. Oh man. We, you know, things just kind of exploded. Well, you want to wrap up with, did we wrap up the hammer? Yeah. The hammer's all set up, ran the dust collection. I was able to get a four inch spiral tee on Amazon, like with same day delivery, I think, which was really cool. And it was a good price, you know, not much more than what you would get at, you know, like a supplier of that stuff.
00:32:04
Speaker
So it was a it was it was about the most painless machine delivery setup that we've ever had. Yeah, we had to lift up the the the working part of it with the four because we we could have muscled it. But the part decide with the motor on it, which you tried to pick up was that was going to cause some pain. Yeah, like the drum on the end, like dug into my collarbone. I'm like, yeah, no, I don't want to get into this. You don't want to drop it. And then
00:32:33
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Yeah, yeah, it was it was a little heavy. Yeah. So that was our Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday, we went up to Rutherford. Oh, geez. Yeah. Tuesday, we had a frame. Yeah. What do we do in the morning? I do something. I think we did. We work. Yeah. But I feel like something has something else. Was that the day we registered for the mom project?
00:33:04
Speaker
What was that yesterday? I think that was the day you registered. That's all this week. That's crazy. Maybe. Yeah, yeah, it must have been. Yeah, so, you know, we've just been overrun with requests for quotes and it's just like I haven't been able to get off of the computer.
Overwhelmed with Requests
00:33:28
Speaker
It's crazy. And I'm still ignoring people.
00:33:31
Speaker
I think you went over to, um, Holly tree. Is that, was that the, is that the name of that? Uh, with Andy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think that was Tuesday or maybe that was Monday, Monday before the standard came. I don't know. Um, uh, no, it was Tuesday cause it was the 15th.
00:33:50
Speaker
Yeah, so I went over and confirmed a couple of things on this job that we're doing for the builder with whom we did the kitchen with Lindsay down in brick just recently. So just confirmed a couple of things, picked up a check. We have Neil from MT Tool Company. He's making knives and we're getting some heads from Charles Gigi Smit, which those heads are being made
00:34:15
Speaker
They ran out and they're making another batch, which it's cool that they make their own shaper heads and everything. So getting into the corrugated shaper knives, which is a really cool thing that, you know, been pretty intrigued by.
00:34:31
Speaker
over the last couple of years, you know, being able to have custom knives made for the shaper, not just the hussy. The hussy is tough to use and for, you know, like you can't build doors on a hussy. Yeah, you can't build doors on a hussy. You know, so we have this profile that they were looking for. I couldn't find it stock anywhere. I didn't mean I didn't look that hard. But, you know, for, say,
00:34:55
Speaker
650, 700 bucks. We got a matched coping stick set with two, two heads that we can use on other jobs. You know, just take the knives out and get any type of, you know, coping stick set or whatever you get any profile made and kneel super fast. You know, if, uh, if those heads weren't held up, we'd probably already have everything here. Um, so yeah, we'll be doing that. Oh,
00:35:24
Speaker
the mom project. So yeah. Anyway, we just had, we have so much, so many inquiries coming in and, um, and all that. It's just a lot to try and keep track of. And with scheduling, you know, we have like, like eight projects going on right now in the shop, literally, but even more now might even be nine because this one email,
00:35:48
Speaker
Got to ignore it. Might even be 10. So like 10 jobs having simultaneously in the shop. We need like some admin help. So I found a website called The Mom Project. And it's basically a place where, you know, women who were, you know, professional, whatever, there's a multitude of different expertise represented.
00:36:17
Speaker
who basically have gaps in their resume where they had kids, stayed at home, things like that. So it matches people up who are looking for mostly remote and part-time help with different things. Helps match you with someone. So we actually have an interview today at 3.30 with a local woman.
00:36:42
Speaker
So we'll see. It seems like a good resource, you know, if you need that kind of thing. Yeah, they handle the 1099 stuff. Yep. They take a little 20 percent on top, which, you know, just a little slice you add to the salary. But I mean, if you're getting like in our position, we're looking to reduce our paperwork load, so to speak. So we'd be, you know, Robin Peter to pay Paul if we had
00:37:12
Speaker
I don't pay for work to have an employee, which we don't have any. And so that would create this other layer of responsibilities. Yeah. And they like vet these people to a certain degree. You know what I mean? It's not like you put an ad on Facebook and you have every day crazy and their mother calling you up looking for a job. You know, these people have their resumes are posted right there. All the you know, it's it's it's definitely a good tool. They're legit. Yeah. You have to pay for these kind of things. It's not.
00:37:40
Speaker
You want convenience, it costs money. Right. Everybody's got to make a little bit. That's how the world goes round. Yeah. So yeah, we'll see what happens there. Seems like a good candidate. You know, she's like a secretary out of multiple schools and stuff. So I could, you know, that's a complicated sort of thing.
00:38:00
Speaker
And we had another one that that seemed pretty good who had like some design experience and stuff, industrial design. But I don't know. Maybe they declined the interview. I don't know how how it works. I'm not sure. But we actually yesterday you give like a window of time when you can take an interview. And John was here
Today's Craftsman Video Shoot
00:38:20
Speaker
yesterday. We're shooting a video on a miter saw stand, which should be out probably this weekend on today's craftsman.
00:38:30
Speaker
And I guess she picked an interview slot like 2.30 to 3. And I didn't see the email until like almost, it was 2 to 2.30. I didn't see until almost 3. So we rescheduled for today. Yeah, that's pretty cool. How'd you hear about the mom project?
00:38:51
Speaker
I think I just searched like freelance admin and it just came up. Interesting. Yeah. Cause I'd never heard of it. Me neither. Um, and like, do we have like a contact there? This woman Morgan in Chicago and we've had like two phone conversations. It's a, it's a, it's a cool thing. Um, I tell my wife about it. She was very in support of it. Yeah. She liked the idea of the mom project.
00:39:15
Speaker
Yeah, I'm sure somebody out there listening is going to burn their ass like everybody's pissed off or anybody else is getting some kind of help. Where's the dad project? The dad project's everywhere else. Yeah. Oh my God. That's where it is.
00:39:39
Speaker
Oh, man, I know what you're talking about, though. So that took us to two. Oh, no, we didn't even talk about where we went. Tuesday, we went up to Rutherford to the restaurant and met Jacqueline. Jacqueline was having lunch. I think getting ready to have lunch, we met her at this restaurant that we have to bid some pancakes and some some other stuff. Cool project. Big arch.
00:40:05
Speaker
How was that? I don't know. But you should you should tell everyone. Remind them that Jacqueline was our star guest. Oh, yeah. They know. They know. It's fresh in their memory. Like some 24 inch deep arch arch like niche things. I mean, really cool. Bank, you know,
00:40:25
Speaker
curve bankheads and straight bankheads and all kinds of stuff. So we got that that we got to put some rough numbers on. She's always got some interesting twist to her work. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's one thing I really appreciate about working with Jacqueline. Yeah. We're working through that built in job right now. It's all taken apart, ready for finish.
00:40:46
Speaker
Um, so probably start spraying that tomorrow morning. Uh, wow. We got another, we got a meeting tomorrow morning at 10. So maybe I could get it, get a little bit of it done beforehand. Maybe I can get the doors, doors primed. Um, and then get into the paint, which is that.
00:41:04
Speaker
paint water mix stain thing that I cooked up. One part paint, one part water. What's two parts? It's one part of one color, one part of another color, and two parts water. So yeah, half paint, half water, but two different paints. And then it'll get a ultra flat water based
00:41:29
Speaker
Finish on top dead flat varnish by modern masters and the doors are getting a flat white and then they'll get the flat top coat as well. So everybody looks happy together. Yeah, that's been kicking around the shop for friggin two months or something.
00:41:49
Speaker
Yeah. Well, and we'll get to the longest guest. Yeah. And we have the bank. Yeah. The fluted bank cat that goes along with that built in as well. And Jim Jamal will be doing the cushions sent over the dimensions a little bit late. I might not on my part, a little bit late on the dimensions. But so get to work, Jim, if you're listening.
00:42:12
Speaker
For that, which I think it's going to be like a camel. Camel color is what I saw, which would be cool. Keep with that whole tonality with kids, though. Yeah, it's going to get dirty fast. So put zippers on it, Jim. Or just make two and keep them on the side. Two is not enough. Yeah. That was our Tuesday, Wednesday.
00:42:40
Speaker
was yesterday and we worked a little bit. And then John came about nine 30 and we shot a video on this mobile miter saw stand that I, that I concocted. We were wanting to do something with the miter saw so that we can like bring it over to the rough lumber or whatever. Sometimes we have to cut
00:43:05
Speaker
moldings and stuff. Like if we're cutting crown molding for a cabinet job, cutting it, pre-cutting it in the shop, we have no choice but to use a miter saw. We try and use the table saw for any finished cuts, but you know, you can only cut crown molding on a miter saw really, unless you want to get it to frigging bevel, you know, cutting on the flat, which good luck on a table saw. You're going to freaking pull your hair out with the geometry.
00:43:33
Speaker
I mean, I only cut crown nested unless it's too big to cut nested. So yeah, anyway, we want to be able to move this thing around the shop. And not only that, the wall where the miter saw is, is where we're trying to create this today's craftsman wall so that we can do some, oh my God, is this another email? Yeah, I just saw.
00:43:58
Speaker
Today's craftsman wall where we can shoot some videos, you know, have a backdrop there where we can shoot some videos while we hopefully get the old shop set up as like the studio or whatever. So we wanted to be able to pull it out. And it was on this giant friggin Husky toolbox that's like 40 some odd inches tall, which we just got used to. Yeah. After a couple of years.
00:44:19
Speaker
So yeah, I had an idea. It's like the hardest part of doing a mobile miter saw thing is the wings, like having support that also folds out of the way. You know, you put it on butt hinges and then you got to put a stick underneath of it. Like I hate that. Yeah. And it's never, there's no adjustment. So I said, let me just find a miter saw stand and we'll hack it up and just like bolt it to the top of a cabinet and just put the saw on top.
00:44:45
Speaker
So that's what we did, you know, just built a melamine cabinet out of scrap melamine. Yeah, that was left over from a job in April. It's like less than two sheets to build the whole thing. The stand, which was like 80, 70 bucks from Harbor Freight, you know, just took a end up using a sawzall and cut the legs off, screwed it to the top of this cabinet.
00:45:08
Speaker
screw to a cord reel on the side where I actually cut the ends off and flip them so that the plug, the
00:45:19
Speaker
The plug end, not the socket end, is the part that pulls out. So we got 30 feet of cord. You know, we can plug this thing anywhere. The vacuum goes in on the inside, then the hoses and everything come out of the back and it's got two adjustable shelves. You know, it should work out pretty nice. Yeah. Yeah. You could stick blades, you know, on the shelves. It's like 12 and five days wide or something. They're already, the blades are already in there. I had a clear out.
00:45:45
Speaker
The old tools. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, cause the 12 inch blades don't fit in the table saw cabinet where we have the other blades. It's like, you know, what did Luce listening to the podcast this morning? And I was listening to Steely Dan peg on my way in. Can't believe the people wanted to sell that awesome wine cabinet. Yeah. Too funny. You're on.
00:46:15
Speaker
this week's podcast now. Yeah. Live call arena. So Lou, if you're listening, we just got your text. Um,
00:46:29
Speaker
Yeah, Lou's referencing the RT Machine podcast. We were talking about the origin of the name, Green Street Joinery, and how in the song Peg by Steely Dan, he says something like, down to Green Street, there you go. It was like one of those things where it was like, oh, wow, because Green Street was a name that we were already kicking around. Yeah, it was Kismet. Yeah.
00:46:58
Speaker
So yeah, John shot the video on the miter saw stand. That was from like nine 30 to maybe one 30. We shot the video announcing the winner of the giveaway on the today's craftsman channel. And then the forklift guy showed up.
00:47:13
Speaker
So he did his thing. And then today we've been all over again. First went to the salon job that we just got and measured up some stuff there. It was a good thing that, you know, we went because there were some discrepancies with like the plumbing and stuff. So that was good. Plumbing would have missed cabinets completely. Yeah. Yeah.
00:47:37
Speaker
So better to know that now than on install day, save everybody the stress. And the electrical is as well, you know, they can fix that. Yeah. And the wash sinks, you know, the plumbing made a change there. So that's all good. So we measured that up. That's another job with Lindsay, which I'd love to get Lindsay on the podcast in the next couple of weeks. That'd be cool.
00:48:04
Speaker
Yeah, she'd be a great guest. I think Corey and Rob Corey asked if they could come out and be on the podcast, which, of course, the answer is yes. So hopefully we'll have those guys on CT Woodwork. Oh, in the next couple of weeks. Mentioned on our trip how we listened to Corey's interview. Yes, with Ethan Abramson. You guys should check it out. Yeah, that was good. He's got a good a good story behind all of his woodworking that he's been doing and a lot of
00:48:31
Speaker
A lot of really good questions, I thought. Yeah, Ethan's got good questions. The delivery is a little stale for me, but he's a nice guy. Yes, I would like to hear maybe him let his guard down a little bit, I'll say. Yes, I like Real World Ethan more than... Produced. Right. So yeah, that was good. It's called Building a Furniture Brand with Ethan Abramson, where he was on that. It came out yesterday, so check that out.
00:49:03
Speaker
After that, so I ordered yesterday morning a Kpex KS 60, the cordless from toolnut and it said pre
Festool Kpex KS 60 Saw Discussion
00:49:14
Speaker
-order. So I was under the impression that all the ones I was seeing were just like demo models that people got.
00:49:20
Speaker
But I think it was like that they sold out or maybe they didn't get allocated allocated any in the beginning. And it was like, oh, shipping August 30th. I got to thinking, I'm like, man, we're going to have to install this wall unit. And that was like the the catalyst for like thinking about it's like, you know.
00:49:39
Speaker
third floor in Hoboken, tiny elevator, lugging up a 60 pound Makita chop saw. The stand is like five feet freaking long. It's really awkward too. Yeah, it's horrible. Not just the weight, it's the size, the shape. And you want to be careful with it because that poor saw has just been beat to hell. Yeah.
00:49:59
Speaker
Yeah, and storing it in the van on the stand is really bad. It just, you know, it was like it had put dense in the side of the van and I think the saw fell off a couple of times.
00:50:14
Speaker
So yeah, like we're looking at saws and it's like, you know, Makita has a eight and a half inch cordless. We wanted cordless first and foremost, because, you know, a lot of times we just got to chop something in the van real quick on an install. Like, Hey, we've got this piece of toe that just needs to be cut to length. Like I'm not going to break it out the saw, set it up, like just open the thing, cut it. We're addicted to cordless on a job site. Yeah. I would love a cordless table saw now. Um,
00:50:43
Speaker
So, you know, you got Makita, which we're already into. The eight and a half is is a 40 volt. So it's a different battery. OK. Now, Matabo makes an eight and a half. And let me see who else. I don't think Milwaukee's making one. Is Matabo Hitachi? Yeah.
00:51:08
Speaker
Because they used to be like, it was corded, of course, but they used to be a really good version of that size saw. So, who Bauer makes a seven and a quarter inch cordless? Not warrior? Rigid makes a seven and a quarter. DeWalt makes a seven and a quarter. Makita makes a seven and a quarter. I searched for eight inch, eight and a half inch. Why am I getting? Makita, eight and a half.
00:51:41
Speaker
Gosh, eight and a half cordless. Matabo, eight and a half cordless. So, you know, there's only a handful. Well, the Makita and the Matabo, which were the two main ones, aside from the festival to look at, are literally the same price as the festival. Yeah. There are $1,000 saws with no batteries. Now we don't have any 40 volt Makita batteries. We don't have any.
00:52:09
Speaker
any Matabo, whatever the hell batteries those are. We don't have any festival batteries. So, okay, we're at an even playing field. Now the second part to look at is the stand. All the other stands suck. They don't, they're not easy to move around. You know, like the festival is like,
00:52:26
Speaker
18 inch wide with two big wheels and the saw is, it rotates 90 degrees down. So it's easy to move around. It's purpose designed for exactly what we want to use it for. Yeah, it's made to stay on the stand. Aside from those gravity rise stands like that Bosch have, I think Makita, they probably all make them now, those gravity rise stands, which I used to have when I was a carpenter.
00:52:53
Speaker
They're huge. They're heavy. This is the most elegant. Festool always has the best system.
00:52:59
Speaker
And this is what I said to a couple of guys. It's like if the price is the same, I'm always going to go at the festival because the engineering is second to none. It's way better than anybody else. They think of everything. It is. It's not everything, but they think of all these things that nobody else thinks. So all the little things, the blade storage on the bottom of the stand, the one knob adjustment for the height of the wings. And this thing has
00:53:27
Speaker
wings that go out. The wings are probably five feet, maybe four feet. And then they extend and then they have a stop that extends another out to like what was it? 250 millimeters. So 100 inches. Yeah. So you basically have 200 inches of of wing full support, no little adjustable roller or whatever. I mean, it's it's a real aluminum fence. Yeah, it's nice.
00:53:58
Speaker
Yeah. The whole thing. And then the way the fence, uh, has its own little kit to like, you know, you sling it over your shoulder or it actually has a little home on the stand so you can wheel it in together tilts in there.
00:54:20
Speaker
Like I said, I'd ordered it from Toolnut and it had that pre-order and it sent the 30th. I'm thinking we got this install coming up and this is really a time when we're going to need it. So I said, well, why don't we try and find it locally and cancel that.
00:54:36
Speaker
Called the two closer places and then the third place, which is where we bought like the MFK 700. I don't know if we bought, I think we might have. No, we didn't get the Rotex there. No. I think that was the only thing we got, but they're like a well-stocked festival dealer and they had it.
00:54:53
Speaker
Yeah, we'll remember him next time probably. Yeah, that was a good call by you because I wasn't even thinking about Jaeger. So yeah, we went down to Jaeger Lumber in Belmar and they had
Reception Desk Installation
00:55:03
Speaker
it. So we picked that up and then we shot up to an install in Plainfield. 43 minutes. A reception desk that has been in the shop for over three months.
00:55:17
Speaker
And we met the PM. The reason it was here for three months, apparently. Yeah. Let me look up the email. And where I say, when do you need it? All right. Let's see. Thanks for the update.
00:55:48
Speaker
to see the exact wording yeah floor plans um desk okay there we go
00:56:02
Speaker
drawings. Anyway, I'm not going to bore you with this, but it was like, you know, I said something like, okay, when do you need it? ASAP. ASAP. May 12th, we got paid on that. I finished it by, I think the 14th. Like I literally took an entire day and knocked the whole thing out. This is the developer that we talked about where we made them pay 100% upfront because they were kind of shady. The designers are cool with, they're, they're fine. They're trying to work within this dude's BS.
00:56:34
Speaker
So yeah, had it done by, let's say the 14th of May, it's now the 17th of August. Oh, for three months. It sat here for three months when they needed it, quote unquote ASAP. And we went to this building and we saw some of the work that we bid on. Oh my God. And didn't get, and it is so bad.
00:57:00
Speaker
I don't even know how you would manage to do what they did. Yeah. And, and we're not being nitpicky. We're not being condescending, you know, or it was just, it was as if like they had the laborers do the work. Like just like totally unacceptable work. Like not like, Oh yeah, I could see like, you know, things got hairy on install and this got messed up. No, it was bad. Yeah. Um, real bad.
00:57:31
Speaker
we were sort of like, man, look at this. Like the miters were cut wrong and then they like cut a piece and like slivered it in there. Yeah. And that was on two of the two miters that I looked at. I didn't even look at the other two. A quarter inch gap. Yeah. On the miter. And then the corners were all busted out. The butt joint was uneven. The edge banding was peeling off. It was bad. And you know, like the thing is,
00:57:56
Speaker
We could have done that in Melamine and probably fit the bill for what they wanted to spend, but, you know, the sectionals that we were supposed to build apparently never got built. Yeah, they wound up surrounding the fireplace with just some painted wood. Did we bid on the fireplace? No, no, but it looked like a budget concession, you know,
00:58:26
Speaker
Again, that musty smell. It's not the, it's not the type that. Sorry, I'm pulling off the windscreen.
00:58:38
Speaker
Can you hear me sniffing the microphone? I don't know what the hell it is. Yeah. Maybe it's this rug from sitting in the. In the old studio. Yeah. Cause it's kind of moist in there. Could be. Yeah. I'd be fine with getting rid of this stupid rug anyway. Yeah. Well, when the remodel comes. It's one of those things where sometimes I could smell it and sometimes I can't, but my nose is always like half stuffed when I'm here. Cause I'm freaking dust.
00:59:00
Speaker
Yeah. So we, we unloaded, set it up. We're waiting for the PM or whomever whose contact info we got. I, I called him and then, you know, guys walking by him like, is that rich? Yeah. And he was in the car for a while and then he finally came out and just like walks right by us. Yeah. I'm like, Oh, I'm like, you rich.
00:59:20
Speaker
Yeah. Like if you're the PM and you see guys working on the job that you've never seen before. We were totally in his line of sight. Two strange guys come in, just start setting the desk up. I went to the door and looked at him in his car about 10 times. So like he knew that people were there. Like wouldn't you be like, Oh, Hey, you know, who are you and what the hell are you doing here? Kind of thing like.
00:59:40
Speaker
So I'm like, yeah, where do you want this desk? He's like, looks good right there. And like, okay, we're gonna finish screwing this together. We're gonna get the hell out of here. Like, because as little as you care, I care even less. Yeah, his attitude. Poor Rich had the sense about him that he was just fed up with the job. He just wanted to go home and never see the 803. Is that the name of it?
01:00:09
Speaker
Uh, maybe quote unquote eight Oh three. Yeah.
01:00:15
Speaker
So yeah, it was, it was nice to see that because it confirmed our own, um, experience. Yeah. Uh, but yeah, I mean, it looked good. Very simple. Just black melamine cabinets. Like they wanted it so cheap that there weren't even shelves inside the open cabinets. Which more power to them. I'm waiting to get a text. Like there's no shelves. It's like, I literally told you that no shelves.
01:00:40
Speaker
You want to add shelves? Oh, it's, it's plenty extra now to go back there and drill those holes. Yeah. I don't remember how big they were too. So we're going to have to charge you to go up and, uh, build a measure. Yeah. Um, it's really the stipend for lunch as, as basic and you know, bare bones as that thing was. It's still the nicest thing. Yeah. It was just scary. Very scary.
01:01:08
Speaker
just blackmailed me with edge banded. You know, it's funny though. I had forgotten all about that edge banding we used on the pre-fin, which was really cool. Yeah. The fake multi-play.
Innovative Edge Banding Use
01:01:20
Speaker
Yeah. It looks great.
01:01:23
Speaker
Yeah, stuff's nice. Uh, people don't know about it. It's like, um, it's edge bending. It looks like really nice, you know, like multiply Baltic birch kind of plywood and even eat like even more contrast than Baltic birch. I feel like Baltic birch that had like finish on it. Um, and it's half a mil of PVC.
01:01:42
Speaker
Yeah, it's nice. I mean, I wouldn't mind having some of that. Yeah. Yeah. We even used import. It's pre-fin import birch for the interiors. But it looks, you know, that stuff is it tends to be like yellow, but in like a like a I don't know, like the maple is yellow, but more like towards orange. This is like very like yellow and white yellow. But hey, you know, listen.
01:02:08
Speaker
They knew what they were getting. I, I laid it all out. You want, you need a reception desk and it can only be $3,750 and we got to bring it up there and put it in. Yeah. We can only spend so much on material and they wanted a tow base with LED lights. I'm like, what are you freaking crazy?
01:02:26
Speaker
Granted, it only took me a day to build it. And we probably only got like, I don't know, $300 of material into it. But listen, we got to make money on some jobs too. Yeah. And when you're a pain in the ass, there's a tax. I'm not willing to do you any favors. Um, and, uh, yeah, that rich was good. I looked good right there. That's all right. He didn't want to have anything to do with it. He's like, yeah, I think the girls will be here later. I'm like, okay, good. They can, they can move around if they want.
01:02:50
Speaker
Yeah. Like I said, we were in and out. Yep. Very quickly. There's not even any power for that thing. Like we're not going to run an extension cord from the wall. I know. I know. It's so they don't need like a phone or a computer or plans. It's really not well thought out at all. They're going to put a, a, a wire chase on the wall, probably to a piece of wire on the floor or the piece of duct tape over top of it.
01:03:16
Speaker
Yeah, stupid. You can you can see it. You can see it now is going to be duct tape is they're going to call us and want to know where the where are the grommets? Oh, no, they're not going to call us. Another slumlord developer, you know, they want to build this flashy looking bill. If you if you could just picture what you think this building looks like. And that's exactly what it looks like. White, dark stone, gray. Yeah. You know, that's exactly what it looks like on the outside. Yeah.
01:03:46
Speaker
just picture a gentrified apartment building in a bad, you know, what some people would refer to as a bad neighborhood. Um, that's what it is. And they don't want to spend any money and they're going to rent them out for probably $2,000 a month for a one bedroom and you know, and walk away laughing all the way to the bank. But meanwhile, you know, they got an extension cord taped to the floor in the lobby.
01:04:12
Speaker
Yeah, you can imagine the appliance package in those places, too. You know, it's going to be all like super budget package room that we bid empty sectionals that we bid not didn't exist. The elevator surrounds and that wall thing that we bid were, you know, super crusty, really janky. Yeah. Anyway, we'll get off our horse. Then we came back here.
01:04:38
Speaker
Hang on, I'm still climbing down. Set up the K-packs, which it's nice. It's real nice. It is. And then delivery showed up with some material from Hayfla and another cart.
Hayfla Delivery & Well Wishes
01:04:53
Speaker
Our salesman, Rich, was able to get us a good deal on another lumber cart, which we needed pretty bad.
01:05:03
Speaker
That was cool. You know, we had a big order, like a thousand dollar order because I ordered a hardware for like three jobs. Um, so free shipping at 500, but it did come on this, uh, grotesquely large. Yeah. Which we're going to have to dispose of now. The guy, the guy was expecting us to pick it up with the forklift. I'm like,
01:05:29
Speaker
How do you think we're going to pick this thing up? Yeah. I was trying to, I was trying to be nice to him and like, can we just cut it out and, uh, you know, we'll just bring it in the side door here. No, no, no. And so I come in and Jeff says, all right. The guy was.
01:05:49
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So I'm not, you can't, you got to take the pallet till he tells you, you got to come up here and do it. I'm not allowed to touch it. I'm like, Oh yeah. Yeah. And then when he made us take the pallet. Yeah. I said to Rob, he said, what would happen if I just went inside and closed the door? Yeah. You're going to come beating on the door.
01:06:05
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I would have liked to have done that. He wasn't so he wasn't so cool. No grumpy freaking truck driver. But speaking of cool truck drivers, let's send out a get well wish to our favorite truck driver. Yeah, Joe got rear ended in the truck and hurt his back in his neck. So hopefully he'll be in good health again soon.
01:06:28
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Yeah. Speedy recovery, Joe. Yeah. I don't know if he listens to the podcast. I think he might. He might. He might. He's more of a video guy. Hopefully he found that today's craftsman. Yeah. So tomorrow we have another site visit for a vanity and some looks like some alterations in the kitchen. So we'll, well, maybe we'll have 12 jobs on the books, not on the books, 12 jobs in production by the end of the day tomorrow. Cause they need to be in, in about five weeks.
01:06:58
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Where's where's our Mrs. Mrs. Mom? Yeah, I'm fine. Like there's no problem getting the work done. It's all the other shit that's got to get done. That becomes a problem because it takes you away from I mean, how many hours was I in the shop in the last two weeks?
01:07:13
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Not too, I mean, you were in here a lot. Yeah. I think I got about 12 shop hours in the last two weeks. The office is so warm and it's just, it's stultifying the air. That's a good word. Even with the window open, the fan, I had the door open for a little bit. It doesn't do anything. And it's such a grind at the computer.
01:07:38
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It's okay for a change of pace, but day in and day out. You got that LBI restaurant job to throw some rough prices on. I'm just going to hit them with some big numbers. Yeah. Oh, we didn't mention that we got Dan doing some work for us. Yeah. Dan, our old coworker from the last shop helped us out with the drawings for the salon. Did a really good job. We have some edits for him.
01:08:12
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Hey Alexa, stop talking. What triggered Alexa? I don't know. Saying her name would, but we didn't say the name. No, we said Dan. Yeah. That's weird. Um, Alexa over there, we have an echo echo show or whatever that we used to use for the music. Yeah. I don't know. It's just here as a clock now, basically. Um,
01:08:38
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But yeah, Dan did some mosaic drawings for us and that'll become a more regular thing. Got Steve at Plotscut at CNC. Right. Yeah. So this salon job, bunch of melamine, we're just going to send it up to Steve. He'll cut it. You know, this is how we're going to manage taking on 10, 12 jobs at a time is that. Hmm.
01:09:01
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we've got a delivery, is, you know, we're going to have to farm out some stuff. We're going to have to farm out some drawing. We're going to have to farm out some fabrication in terms of being cut on the CNC, stuff like that, which
Anticipating Streebig Saw & Conclusion
01:09:15
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is fine. You know? Yeah. And, and next week, cross your fingers. That's when they're going to have the drawing.
01:09:24
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Yes, for the street big. Yeah. So that'd be nice. Yeah, we could really use it. Yeah. Big time. Jeff cut out the parts. Oh, I forgot how bad the song was because I hadn't used it in a while. And it's it was nothing super critical either. It was for the for the minor. So I saw Stan. I can hear him over there cursing.
01:09:45
Speaker
They're all jacked up. They're like had a lot of hopefully John didn't shoot any pictures like parachute any video too close because like stuff's out squared sizes. I'm like, oh, my God, not up to your usual. No. And, you know, the melamine is so heavy, hard to cut. Mm hmm.
01:10:06
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Yeah, I was thinking after afterwards this morning I was laying there on my pillow and it came to me the blocking for the top, you know, we ran into that conflict with the knobs.
01:10:22
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Oh, yeah. What if we on the next go around, we had the top where the pocket holes were on the inside so that they weren't showing and we brought the blocking in just like underneath the saw. Yeah. So that way we could keep them tight to the. Yeah, we're had just one layer, one layer and then a second layer. Yeah.
01:10:47
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Because it was all on the fly. Oh yeah. Like I drew in fusion, but you know, once you start and I, I cut all the parts, edge banded them, and then we're shooting the video. It's like, it's too late to make any changes. We just got rolled it. So if you watch the video, don't judge too closely. Yeah, it was great. Oh yeah.
01:11:07
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Oh, this is going to happen because it was all first time stuff. You know, there was no prototyping. There was no nothing. It was just, you know, running gun. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we're at an hour and 10 minutes. We better, uh, better wrap it up. We got a interview coming up. We got to get that. We got to chop up that palette. I got to put that finished putting that shop called together. Yeah. I think I'm going to do the ballot first. Get it off the sidewalk.
01:11:35
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Yeah, it might be gone for all we know. Oh, please God, that would be great. Yeah. Um, so yeah, thanks for listening. Everybody take care. Check out all of our friends on social media, like Corey and Rob and RT Woodward, RT machine company. And yeah, Lewis lumber. All right. Talk to you next week.
01:11:56
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As always, Rob and I, thank you for tuning in and we'll see you next week. If you want to help support the podcast, you can leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Again, we appreciate your support. Thanks for tuning in.