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Out with the old.
I got this a few years ago at costco for probably about 30 bucks. When I showed it to my neighbor he said, Yeah, my wife bought me that same pussy set for christmas last year.
Well...some parts of it are cool...the hole saw, for example, has worked quite well over the years.
But mostly it really sucks. Almost every time I have used one of the smaller drill bits I have broken it (probably why they give you ten of each) and unless I’m drilling into soft wood they break before they even make the hole. Don’t even think about drilling into metal with them.
The screw tips (screwdriver bits for screwguns) have all broken the first time out of the box as well.
So...this was a good lesson on you get what you pay for when it comes to tools and stuff. Yes it was cheap...but for the most part, it’s cheap crap. I’m sure that an a few more years the case will be in the trash and the few surviving bits and stuff will just be in my toolbox.
In my defense...I bought this when I was a rookie carpenter having just recently started working for Dan and at that time when I bought stuff like this or circular saw blades or whatever I was working with the idea that I would buy the cheaper stuff in more varieties as I learned what I like I would replace those tools with the good stuff. Seemed like a good idea at the time. Like, for example my ten dollar pack of circular saw blades that I bought back then too. It has about half a dozen high speed steel blades in various tooth patterns for different purposes. “Great” I thought...”I’ll use these and decide which one I like and then buy that one in a good carbide tipped blade.” Well...I tried a couple of them out. The cheap crap blades tended to get hot and the teeth dulled making the blade hotter and so on. I don’t even think I got 5 or 10 cuts out of them before they were so dull I was afraid they would set the wood on fire rather than cut it. So I finally switched (on this project actually) to the multi-purpose carbide tipped blade that game with the darn saw in the first place and I haven’t looked back since. It’ll probably be years before I even have to get that blade sharpened...or just get a new one for ten bucks.
So what’s the lesson here?
Avoid cheap tools.
They break. They wear out. And they make the job harder to do before they go.
That’s why my tools now tend to be Yellow and Black :o)
Hasselblad 503cw - Distagon 60mm
f22-1,5"
Film: Kodak T-Max 100 (expired 03/2015)
Location: Paris
12 June 2016
"Red Lips" - six color print by John Wesley, at the Axelle Fine Arts Silkscreen Studio
Although he was part of the original group of POP Artists and was included
in the three Pop Art Print Portfolios, Wesley, a native Callifornian, has
been slow to gain the recognition he deserves. In POP ART: A Continuing
History, Marco Livingstone notes that Wesley used a "straightforward linear
technique associated with such non-art sources as cartoons, comics and
coloring books" (82-83) and used "gentle humor . . . framing devices,
symmetry, and tactics of repetition as essential ingrediants in the
production of paintings that appear to be innocent in an obviously childlike
way but are in fact meditative in atmosphere and sophisticated in their
formal construction" (208). Meditative they may be, but if innocence is
present it is often that of those who ought to know better. As a press
release foor the January-February 2001 exhibition of his work at the Harvard
University Art Museums points out, "Wesley has been painting acutely sexual,
intensely observed, narrative paintings for more than 40 years. The
conspicuous characteristics of his work since the early seventies-its
insistent flatness, powdered pastel palette, cartoon/cinematographic
narratives, embrace of the sexually charged encounter, sophisticated
anthropomorphism, and mannered drawing-have enormous appeal for younger
painters inspired by a digital revolution to rethink the medium: Wesley's
painting looks like nothing else out there.
A recent retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art's P.S.1, Wesley's first
in the United States, reflects this new interest in a painter who first came
into prominence in the early sixties. Staged against the backdrop of the
more extensive MoMA/P.S.1 retrospective, John Wesley: Love's Lust is
selective rather than comprehensive, featuring work from the sixties through
to the present in an effort to look more closely at Wesley's allegorical
subject matter and sophisticated formal innovations. 'Wesley's compelling
approach to painting encourages the viewer to question the reasons for his
eccentric creations and in doing so forces us all to ponder his intended
message,' said James Cuno, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of
the Harvard University Art Museums. 'Wesley has never lacked for attention,'
said Linda Norden, the curator at the Fogg who organized the show. 'But
critics have been eager to characterize rather than analyze the art for fear
that looking too closely would kill off whatever it is that works. This
exhibition is meant to show that exactly the opposite is true. Wesley's
paintings can be frighteningly funny, poignant, and just plain weird; but
there is a complex pictorial intelligence driving this body of work.' "
The Harvard show "includes a wide selection of acrylic-on-paper paintings,
which Wesley usually enlarges on canvas. Two wall cases contain some of the
traced drawings he uses to compose his paintings. Surprisingly, these
tracings reveal how little is fixed by an apparently mechanical means of
reproduction: Instead, what becomes quickly apparent is Wesley's mastery of
subtle shifts in scale and placement. Over the last ten years, Wesley has
taken another turn in his paintings, opening spaces between figures,
substituting distance for repetition, and conveying character less through
facial expression than by developing a complex mannered line. This seems to
be John Wesley's moment: John Wesley: Love's Lust offers an overdue
opportunity to examine the work of an artist who has long been loved, but
never taken quite seriously enough."
The Curator of John Wesley: Paintings 1961-2000, a retrospective held during
the autmn of 2000 at P.S. 1, a branch of The Museum of Modern Art, has a
slightly different perspective. Alanna Heiss, P.S.1 Director, says"Wesley's
work stands eerily apart. He mixes images of traditional emblems, historical
figures, comic book personalities, animals, sexy women, athletes and
showgirls into surreal daydreams, prompting the viewer to rejoin her own
private dream-world." This exhibition includes works ranging from his
earliest paintings (Stamp, 1961) to his most recent-Showboat, 2000. To
accompany this retrospective, P.S.1 has produced a catalogue including new
essays by Brian O'Doherty and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, an interview with
the artist by Alanna Heiss, a chronology by Hannah Green, and an anthology
of other significant texts and color plates. Wesley is known for his
consistency of palette (baby blues, cotton-candy pinks), his use of painted
"frames" within his pictures, his early emblem paintings, his cartoon
Bumstead paintings, and ultimately for his representations of an inner
erotic voyage where we are both the voyager and the voyeur.
After moving from his native Los Angeles to New York in 1960, John Wesley
began showing his work at the Robert Elkon Gallery in 1963. Donald Judd
became an early supporter of Welsey's work at that time. In a review of that
first New York show he wrote "...the forms selected and shapes to which they
are unobtrusively altered, the order used, and the small details are
humorous and goofy." Initially considered in alignment with pop artists of
the early 60s, Wesley consistently produced works of such a subtle and
subversive nature as to put him in a category of his own. He used the early
tools of advertising production (tracing paper and stock photographs).
Influences on his work range from Surrealism to Art Nouveau, from ancient
Greek pottery to Matisse. Wesley's colorful and figurative style also
reflects the "flat" world of comics and posters. His secret life is ours;
the works uncover the private world of a dreamer, where the dreamer is the
protagonist, the artist, and the viewer. They are icons proclaiming the
sanctity of our subconscious wanderings.
Selected Bibliography: In addition to discussions of Wesley in such standard
works on the POP Art Movement as Judith Goldman, The Pop Image: Prints &
Multiples (NY: Marlboroush Graphics, 1994), Marco Livingstone, POP ART: A
Continuing History (NY: Abrams, 1990), see R. H. Fuchs, Kasper Konig, et al,
John Wesley : Paintings 1963-1992, Gouaches 1961-1992 (Frankfurt: Oktagon
Verlag, 1993-Catalogue of a travelling retrospective held in Frankfurt,
Amsterdam, Ludwigsburg, and Berlin between July & Oct. 1993); Alanna Heiss,
John Wesley: Paintings 1961-2000 (NY: P. S. 1-MoMA, 2000).
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Read: A Conversation with John Wesley by Marianne Stockebrand
New tests/research using 'Tool Hide,' the CNC surfacing technique developed by Associated Fabrication that can respond to an infinite variety of surface curvatures.
This is a set of tools to adjust valve clearances on Honda Magna motorcycles. It consists of an unusual looking clamp that pulls the camshaft up tight on one end, and a very elongated 10mm box wrench.
Tool steel cut with a jeweler's saw (patience... patience...) from larger stock, then ground on a bench grinder. The one on the far left was forged by heating with a torch and hitting with a hammer. Then they were annealed by heating to a dull red with the torch and air cooled. Next step will be to file them to refine shapes and buff.
My favorite one is the half-round third from the right. Actually, all of the small stock worked out well. Especially since it was the first time I ever used a bench grinder.
Feb 23/12 a woman is renovating a room in my friends' new home. i liked how colourful her tools were. no, that's not a euphemism.
Please mark your calendars for our Spring Bread and Cheese Creek which will be are largest cleanup to date! These photos show the current sad condition of this historic stream. We plan to clean up Bread and Cheese Creek form the Berkshire section to North Point Road on Saturday, April 5, 2014 at 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM, All the assistance from volunteers and sponsor is greatly appreciated! We know this is a huge section of stream to tackle but I know we can do it!
This cleanup will be in conjunction with the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay’s Project Clean Stream and it will be our fifth year working with them! This cleanup will also be in conjunction with American Rivers. We will supply trash bags, gloves, water, snacks and lunch. A limited supply of waders and tools will also be available for sign out during the cleanup.
Remember, there plenty of ways for volunteers to participate. We will need every type of person of every ability level to contribute and assist with the Clean Up. Though it is true we will need people to dig out shopping carts and haul trash to the dumpsters, we can use people to run water, food, tools, and trash bags (both empty and full) to individuals in the creek. People to sort recyclables from the debris removed. People will be needed to work the grills as well as many other less strenuous activities. We are also authorized to sign-off on Community Service and Service Learning Hours for students. The more people we have, the easier the work will be for everyone. Please feel free to pass this information on to other who might be interesting in helping as well. As my grandfather always said, "Many hands makes the work light". We run our cleanups as a family event with all age groups welcome by developing plenty of ways for volunteers to participate.
Our cleanups are part of an ongoing effort clean the entire stream by the 2014 bicentennial celebration of War of 1812 Bicentennial Celebration. (Bread and Cheese Creek has been noted as one of the highlighted location on the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail) The creek played a rather significant part in the Battle of North Point which took place on September 12, 1814. Both the American and British Troops camped along its banks. It is rumored that the young heroes Daniel Wells (19) and Henry McComas (18) used the stream channel to sneak up on British General Robert Ross killing him with their muskets before being killed in return fire. This important part of our history should not be left the eyesore it currently is and those who died defending our country honored in this way.
You can learn more about us through our website at www.BreadandCheeseCreek.org, become our friend on FaceBook, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest or follow us on Twitter and/or join the Clean Break and Cheese Creek Group. You can also see photos of our past cleanups on Flickr and our videos on YouTube. You can also subscribe to out Electronic Newsletter.
If you have any comments or questions please contact us. Thank you again for your interest!
Hubble engineers Ed Rezac (left), Steve Arslanian (center), and Morgan Van Arsdall (right) show children some of the tools astronauts used in space during Hubble servicing missions at a "Hubble Space Telescope: 25 Years of Servicing" event at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on December 8, 2018.
Credit: NASA / W. Hrybyk
I have always been in awe of power tools. I was photographing these to sell... but really they are Art.
Tools from my grandmother's Tlapaleria (a kind of Hardware Store)
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Herramientas de la tlapalería de mi abuela.
The Universal Cutting Tool (UCT) is perfect for through-cutting materials with thicknesses up to approx. 5 mm/3/16“.
Further details: www.zund.com/en/universal-cutting-tool
15" Macbook Pro, 1st Generation iPod Touch, Verizon Wireless/LG Voyager, RCA VR5220-A, and pencils. [8/52]
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Fun Father's Day cookies. I designed these last year and added the I heart Dad this year.