Originally posted by cooltouch Hey Colton! Wow, a lot of posts after you answered mine!
Anyway, I can appreciate your feelings of satisfaction and fulfillment from your career in timber framing. I build custom guitars, so I've also had to work around a mortise and tenon or two, although I prefer alternate methods now, when I can find them and when they're equal to or superior to a m-t joint. Whew, I though I had a lot of hand tools. You've got me beat, except maybe for clamps. Or did you just not include your clamps? Guitar builders can never have enough clamps, I believe.
You being into precise joinery and all, I bet you would have enjoyed guitar building, and I bet you'd have been good at it.
I envy your assortment of chisels, although truth be told, I use mainly only three or four smaller ones most of the time. 1mm, 1/8", 1/4", and 1/2". And your planes! Heh, nice. But the one I use more than any other -- by far -- is a Veritas block plane that looks something like the one of yours fourth row down, far right. That little guy. And I like your Japanese pull saws. I own one -- it's all I need for what I use it for.
It took me a while to put together my collection of tools, but now I find, whenever I think about it, there aren't any others I really need. Which is kinda nice. Saves me money. Fortunately I haven't gotten the tool collecting bug the way I got it for photo gear.
I built furniture in my spare time, so I acquired a lot of smaller chisels and other tools that weren't really needed for timberframing. I was also way into collecting and restoring old handtools. Truth be told, for most of the work I did, I used 2 framing chisels, the large slick, a block plane, a #5 Jack plane, a Carriage Maker's rabbet plane, and a large Japanese handsaw.
I actually got into guitar making a bit in my early 20s. I built 3 solidbody guitars, but then I got into timberframing and didn't do much more guitar making.
Here's a 4x5 film photo I took of the first guitar I made,
Busch Pressman D 4x5
Caltar II-N 150/5.6
Ilford FP4 Plus
Epson V750-M Pro
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Originally posted by abruzzi yeah, even the older lenses are pretty nice, but its nice to have the half stops of the PE lenses, so when I'm looking for a new lens, I prioritize the PE is I can find it for a reasonable price. Right now I have the 40, 50, 75, and 150 primes. I had the 45-90 for a few weeks, but discovered that while the shutter would open all the way when shooting, it wouldn't when cocked, so I returned it.
I also have a 40, 50, 75, 150 kit. The 75 is the EII version and the others are older MC versions.
I've never really found having half stops to be a big issue, but I mostly shoot C41.