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On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:13:00 -0700, Joerg <invalid@invalid.invalid>
wrote:

>Joel Koltner wrote:
>> "Joerg" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message 
>> news:7ai5luF1ur1mbU1@mid.individual.net...
>>> I usually spent a lot more time on the enclosures than on the electronics 
>>> but the stuff is still working.
>> 
>> Didn't anyone tell you that dovetail joints were optional? :-)
>> 
>> Just kidding.  I can't imagine even you would have chiseled out dovetail 
>> joints (since I'm thinking those dovetail jigs you use with a router didn't 
>> exist for the casual home woodworker back then)...
>> 
>
>I didn't go that far but I polished and stained the corners until you 
>couldn't really see where things butted up anymore.
>
>Saw a contractor commercial lately about the Fein Multimaster. Drooling 
>all over the place. Fein is "the" electric tool company in Germany, only 
>the good stuff. You had to call a 1-800 number to find out the price and 
>that should have been a dead give-away. Well, found it on the Internet, 
>saw the prices of spare inserts and decided that I do not need it this 
>urgently.

Fein is simply crazy expensive.  I looked at their routers over the
weekend.  I wasn't impressed, for 4X what a Bosch or PC costs.  Bosch
has a "Multi-Master type tool ("Multi-X", I think) that's a lot
cheaper and looks just as good (Li-Ion battery, though).  A little
lower down the line, Dremmel has a copy for $100ish.  If you want to
go cheap, HarborFreight has one for $40.  The reports are decent,
acknowledging that it's a $40 tool.  The only real complaint is that
the blades loosen.  

>http://www.amazon.com/Fein-MultiMaster-FMM-250Q-Top/dp/B000U8S3QA
>
>
>> I built a small table (~2'x2'x1') for test equipment to live on not quite a 
>> month ago.  I thoroughly enjoyed using a dado blade to cut a bunch of lap 
>> joints, and verified the table could hold 300lbs.  Old boat anchors, here I 
>> come!
>> 
>
>That's the other thing I built, or partially had built when I was around 
>15, size 6ft by 4ft and extremely sturdy (boat anchor proof). I made a 
>drawing of the frame and asked my parents whether it was ok to get some 
>metal stock, borrow a welding transformer and weld it in the garage. Oh 
>no, no dice. So I went to the local HW store, a larger kind of mom and 
>pop place. My classmates said they'd laugh at me there. The foreman took 
>a look, "Yep, will be ready in two days, then we'll drive up there and 
>chuck the frame over the hedge and you come down here to pay us the 70 
>Deutschmarks". They didn't even want up front cash. Oh, now my chest 
>swelled and I felt like an engineer. Until I glued the formica onto a 
>panel that would become the top and I had it slightly skewed ...