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AmScray

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  1. Dutch, this is the table.

     

    http://www.nakashima.../furniture/3/22

     

    I would be making it myself. Well, for something this size I would probably enlist help from a family friend who has a crazy awesome workshop and doesn't live far from me. But I would be crafting it. Would definitely try to get the real wood edge as well.

     

    Do you know how to shape wood beyond cutting structural members, joints and gluing it together? Because that table has artistic edges galore, its deceivingly complicated. Simple structure but to get it to 'look like that', the detail work is hard core.

     

    Here's a very early phase (grind marks, welding slag and all) mockup for an end table I'm designing, sans top which will be something brightly colored and synthetic. Its made out of discarded steel testing coupons and stepped plate base (which will probably be mounted atop a rectangular base, something synthetic and something brightly colored. Heavy as ****. Trying to figure out if I want to make it out of aluminum or not.

     

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    See that wood behind it?

    That's old growth Giant Sequoia Redwood. Bona fide Sequioadendron Giganteum.

    Perhaps you should build your table out of that. Here's where you can order some, including selections with the live edge you're after.

    https://farwestfores...equoia-redwood/

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  2. If someone tells me they're taking a trip to any country in Southeast Asia, I immediately assume they're a child sex tourist.

    Here's the odds for any given country, as far as any given traveler going there to engage in some sort of illicit sexual conduct. .

     

    Thailand: -105

    Vietnam: -150

    Philippines: -200

    Cambodia or Laos: -350

     

    If you want to bet they are NOT going there to engage in illicit sexual conduct:

     

    Thailand: +100

    Vietnam: +125

    Philippines: +170

    Cambodia or Laos: +275

  3. That douchenozzle who mocked the little black kid does indeed deserve 100% of what he's getting.

    I don't need to lay out my 'cred' when it comes to non-PC humor, mocking some random little kid on facebook is repugnant.

     

    As an aside, has Empire convinced blacks that gay is awesome?

    Blacks have been pretty damn resistant to rainbowmania.

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  4. The UFC wants to be rid of him but they don't want him bringing in eyeballs for another promotion. Its literally their best case scenario.

     

    They had a hand in this. 5 years for pot isn't pathetic. Its agenda-driven. I hope his lawyers have brains and start subpoenaing the right records and people.

  5. Before it entered 'bro culture' as some retarded thing you do when running a train on a broad, it existed as a thing that happened in prison when two queens pissed on someone in exchange for a cup noodles, so when you say a "golden gate would really round out the weekend", I'm not thinking about "The League". I envision you in a hotel room bathtub wearing pool goggles.

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  6. Went to the industrial supply shop today. For the first time, there was a strange millenial behind the counter.

     

    "Hi. I need some 1" carbon rod with an acme thread, but not a whole piece. Just a 2' section or so. Do you guys have any in that 'scraps for sale' pile? It has to be carbon since I'm welding it to an iron hand wheel"

     

    "Uh, you mean like steel rod?"

     

    (Stares blankly at him)

     

    "One inch carbon rod with an acme thread. About two feets worth. I just need a small section for a project I'm working on, don't need a full piece."

     

    "Uh, hold on..."

     

    (Goes in back, gets the guy who is usually there)

     

    "Hi Scroom, how's it going?"

     

    "Who the **** was that and why is he here?"

     

    "Owners son. He's supposed to take over the place when he retires in 2017".

     

    So long story short, I want the extinction comet to come right now and end us all. The idea of millenials running industrial hardware stores is just too much to bear. Today was my 9/11.

  7. Scram, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news. But I think that thing may have been stolen. You might want to report it to the police.

     

    I live in a city where home burglaries are instructed to call the non-emergency number and might get dispatch days later (but about half the time, nothing)

     

    You try calling the CPD about a stolen plasma cutter. Care to wager if anyone cares?

  8. In my experience dremels are pieces of shit. I've had two and both motors have burned up. That being said they are very handy for small jobs that need precision. It's a decent price. Attachments are expensive and do not last.

     

    They are irreplaceable and if you keep burning them up, you're over-using them on heavy jobs.

    Attachments are CHEAP if you're smart enough to realize you can buy them for $5 a piece in "Dremel" packages at Home Depot or huge sets of them for $15 or $20 total from the import sources that literally come from the same places.

     

    Far and away the most indispensable tool I ever use for fine work is the Dremel. I've had one for well over 10 years and another I bought 'broken' for the attachments and it wound up being a dirty switch on the unit that has been going strong for about 5.

     

    Have one for grunt work and another for flex shaft work.

  9. I got a sample card with four picks I'm totally OK with (Rousey, A Silva, Rua and Magny) and am still not priced out, with 9500 left and lots of unknowns going cheap, and that is WITH Rousey at the ball-breaking price of 12200+.

  10. True story...a former friend of mine asked me to help him launder his drug selling money through a webpage building business. I declined.

     

    But you have my number.

     

    There were strong money laundering interests involved in premium .com domain names for a while.

    Unique asset pricing, potentially high dollar, very real potential for international sales putting various documentation out of reach of subpoena.

     

    The art market also has a ton of this going on.

     

    All this being said, I can think of no worse way to launder drug money than a 'webpage selling business' since the entirety of your business operation has a crazy accurate forensic footprint and every potential client is within reach of a subpoena should you be investigated for tax fraud.

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  11. I bet Spaniards can make a nice suit of clothes. Does anyone know if there is a custom suit industry in Spain?

     

    Milan or Bologna, their prices for custom suits were just unreal. Granted, the quality level is insane too but seems like they're getting a bit ahead of themselves.

    Share one single border with Switzerland and the next thing you know, they think they price as Caucasian.

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