This week featured the brothers crosscutting an approx 8' x 1' board ... of
course they used the fence, with about 1 1/2 feet between the blade and the
fence.
Then they had to cut some plywood, since they had to make two of each cut,
and they had two table saws, they decided this was a good time for a "saw
war". Which is a race to see who could cut the all the pieces the fastest.
Apparently this is something they do often.
On top of their total disregard (or lack of knowledge) of proper tool
safety, I think their workmanship is rather poor.
This show could be really good, but they have the wrong guys for the show.
Locutus wrote:
> This week featured the brothers crosscutting an approx 8' x 1' board ... of
> course they used the fence, with about 1 1/2 feet between the blade and the
> fence.
>
> Then they had to cut some plywood, since they had to make two of each cut,
> and they had two table saws, they decided this was a good time for a "saw
> war". Which is a race to see who could cut the all the pieces the fastest.
> Apparently this is something they do often.
>
> On top of their total disregard (or lack of knowledge) of proper tool
> safety, I think their workmanship is rather poor.
>
> This show could be really good, but they have the wrong guys for the show.
I was sort of hoping the "saw war" would be where they fire up the saws
and hurl them at each other.
On Oct 6, 11:22 am, "Locutus" <[email protected]> wrote:
> This show could be really good, but they have the wrong guys for the show.
Actually they have the wrong gender. These clowns are a knock-off of
what Ki Nassauer and Sue Whitney have been doing with "Junk Market
Style" for years. I'm surprised they haven't done a show. They're
both really nice. Sue's quite the hottie too.
JP
"Lee Gordon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> <<This show could be really good, but they have the wrong guys for the
> show.
> >>
>
> But the guys on the show that follows it are even worse -- or at least one
> of them is. I think it's called "Hammered" and one of the brothers
> actually knows what he is doing. In fact, he's kind of safety conscious,
> often explaining why some things his brother wants to do could be
> dangerous. But that other brother is a total ignoramus. He knows nothing
> about woodworking or building so I guess he is supposed to be there for
> comic relief. Unfortunately, comedy works much better when the guy is
> funny, which this guy isn't.
>
I have seen this show as well, the one brother is definately knowledgable.
The other brother that looks like Rosie O'Donnels brother is a "little"
funny...
> But this week, even the guy who knows what he's doing missed the mark. He
> came up with a pretty clever device that would operate all the drawers on
> his poker table simultaneously. I'm sure designing that feature took a
> bit of thought. Unfortunately, assessing whether such a feature would be
> desirable took no thought at all. If you're going to have drawers on a
> poker table, they should be independently operable. Why should
> everybody's drawer pop open just because one guy wants to grab a pack of
> smokes.
>
I think the idea is that you have all of the drawers open when playing so
people have a place to put their drinks, chips, etc. When the table is not
in use the drawers go in so they are not in the way. Personally I would have
made them "trays" and not drawers.
> The other less than well thought out feature of that table was the
> decoupage top. It wasn't such a bad idea to use that clear bar top finish
> and embed some decorative stuff in there but maybe they should have used
> pictures of casinos or maybe some oversized graphics of cards or chips.
> But to arrange actual poker chips and face up poker hands with real cards
> in the surface of a card table seems like it would make the table awfully
> confusing to play on. Whose chips are those? Whose hand is that? Oh
> wait, it's just the table.
>
> Lee
I agree, I was thinking the exact same thing.
<<This show could be really good, but they have the wrong guys for the show.
>>
But the guys on the show that follows it are even worse -- or at least one
of them is. I think it's called "Hammered" and one of the brothers actually
knows what he is doing. In fact, he's kind of safety conscious, often
explaining why some things his brother wants to do could be dangerous. But
that other brother is a total ignoramus. He knows nothing about woodworking
or building so I guess he is supposed to be there for comic relief.
Unfortunately, comedy works much better when the guy is funny, which this
guy isn't.
But this week, even the guy who knows what he's doing missed the mark. He
came up with a pretty clever device that would operate all the drawers on
his poker table simultaneously. I'm sure designing that feature took a bit
of thought. Unfortunately, assessing whether such a feature would be
desirable took no thought at all. If you're going to have drawers on a
poker table, they should be independently operable. Why should everybody's
drawer pop open just because one guy wants to grab a pack of smokes.
The other less than well thought out feature of that table was the decoupage
top. It wasn't such a bad idea to use that clear bar top finish and embed
some decorative stuff in there but maybe they should have used pictures of
casinos or maybe some oversized graphics of cards or chips. But to arrange
actual poker chips and face up poker hands with real cards in the surface of
a card table seems like it would make the table awfully confusing to play
on. Whose chips are those? Whose hand is that? Oh wait, it's just the
table.
Lee
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