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Ben Thresher's mill is one of the few water-powered, wood-working mills left in this country. Operating in rural Vermont since 1848, the mill is a unique link between the age of craft and the age of modern industry. In this excerpt, Ben uses his machines and finely crafted tools to turn out a horsedrawn sled for his neighbors in the farming community. The film evokes the quality of rural New England life, and at the same time provides a close, step-by-step view of Ben's woodworking processes.
sunnybob wrote:I took over and explained about the teeth. I pulled the saw to the front, and pushed the blade straight through that plank.
sunnybob wrote:AW, c'mon, I thought I had finally learnt something.
With the blade all the way back behind the wood, and pulling the blade towards me. The thing bit hard and jammed everytime.
With the blade nearest to me, and wood pushed back against the back fence, pushing the blade away from me got the desired result.
Trevanion wrote:A very interesting video popped up into my recommendations about Lichtenburg Burning/Fractal Burning, or more about how extremely dangerous using a high-voltage microwave transformer in a jury-rigged fashion to achieve the effect is.
Sheffield Tony wrote:I'm slightly surprised at the number of injuries caused by this. If I wanted to do this, I would set up the high voltage stuff at one end of a long mains cable, and be at the other end of it when plugging it in. This was my standard practice when doing dodgy things with mains (testing a laser power supply, making improvised X-rays, that sort of thing). But then the injuries are sometimes resulting from people holding the electrodes one in each hand to manually apply them
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