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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. –Albert Einstein
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Yo Drivel Starved Nation! Just added an investment cast component to the pile. I don’t know how much longer this will stay a secret…
See the four stainless steel socket head cap screws? They are 1/4-20. FYI.
–John
A bottle opener!
David,
Don’t you have a lawsuit to file or are you all caught up?
Negatory on the bottle opener…
-John
Clamp? Something with bands?
And clue #4;
It has at least 4 1/4-20 female threads.
A pencil sharpener?, that doubles as a gizmo for making gizmos. Do i need a warmer winter jacket?
George;
White is your favorite color–enjoy that timeshare in Antarctica!
-John
The long-awaited VP-55?
Well, this is obviously an over-center lock handle (and of a grand proportion!). Couple this with the large set screws and the fact that it will take my entire tax return to put a down payment on it, I believe I have it. I think that the new CT is a jointer plane! I will go on to bet that this plane will include an accurate angle adjustment fence mounted along the side of the tool (something sadly missing from all of the planes to date). I will risk all of my accumulated neurons on this!
DJ
Dennis;
You may be getting less cold real fast but your neuron count has only grown by one.
I think your guess was over the top.
More clues tomorrow.
-John
So….are you hinting that the handle goes “under the bottom….?), or “off to the side…..?)
DJ
CT-18 is a black chrome race car; you’re only showing some of the hardware and that latch looking thing is used to hold the hood down. Tomorrow you will start to reveal body panels- dang those wheel arches will be sexy in the black chrome.
Regards,
Rutager
Okay – two guesses: first, the new part looks a lot like something you’d find in climbing equipment. Maybe something you’d thread rope through so it would grip and slide.
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Unfortunately, this logic didn’t get me very far (unless it’s the first BCTW power tool, and this part controls the electrical cord…)
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So my second guess is: an antigravity device. I mean, look at the letters “CT-18”. What’s holding that dash up? Antigravity, for sure.
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Neuron count?
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— Peter
Peter:
The dash is super glued to a piece of plexiglass. As for your neuron count? Depends upon your margarita count–using a sophisticated regression analysis technique in my massive head, you regress faster than most.
My advice? Sign up for timeshares in Antarctica. You are going south fast..
–John
Rutager,
See response to Peter’s WAG. Perhaps you can teach him a thing or two about the cold…starting with how to buy a sleeping bag with a zipper that connects two sleeping bags. Trust me, you both will need one.
Sorry to be the bearer of such news. You are so cold.
– John
Well, One last thought for tonight…..
I will think “negative space”….
It is NOT a marking tool.
It is NOT a measuring tool.
It is NOT a saw.
It is NOT a leveling tool.
It is NOT a plumb bob.
It is NOT a drilling tool.
It is NOT a poking tool (awl type devices)
It is NOT an angle making tool.
Am I getting closer?
By the way Peter, just HOW BIG is a margarita in your household? I’m envisioning one of those huge glasses you pick up at the county fair by tossing quarters…..
DJ
Eeew! Regardless of the cold, the thought of sharing a sleeping bag with Rutager… Well… Eeew. He’s too hairy for me.
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I’m deeply disappointed to discover that the dash is glued to plexiglas. Antigravity would have been much cooler.
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I’m liking Dennis’s guess of a jointer plane with an adjustable fence. I’d get one of those. So how ’bout a jack plane, instead of a jointer? You could still put a fence on it to dial in the angle.
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If I knew what a 1/4-20 screw was, I could probably figure out how big that new part was. But I’m still liking the idea of a bottle opener.
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I guess another approach would be to go through the BCTW catalog, and try to figure out what you haven’t made yet. I was shocked to learn that you produced turning gouges (there’s one on ebay right now), and 3 versions of the AS-24. What else have I missed by being so young (and poor)?!? Okay, here’s a short list (feel free to add):
Router plane
Compass plane
Jack plane
Jointer plane
Miter plane
Skew plane(s)
Scraper plane(s)
Chisel plane(s)
Bullnose plane
59″ straightedge (for sheet goods)
Set-up bars
Free tool charity for oceanography professors
Screwdrivers
Sandpaper
Mechanical pencils
Ellipse makers
i-Anything (with the possible exception of the AMP app for the iPad)
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Anything close in here?
And just FYI, I just had one of my wife’s margaritas. So be nice.
— Peter
Our posts crossed, Dennis. The margaritas are not large, they’re powerful. Please come to visit, and we’ll show you. It’s a wonder I have any neurons left at all!
— Peter
Bridge city sniper rifle? And the previous clue was the chair you made for your anti-taliban watch post.
Ok, my real guess is a scraper plane where you use 2 fingers on this new part to provide pressure and change the curvature of the blade.
Before my coffee, 5 am poke at it,,,,,,,,
A hand powered scroll saw.
That new handle thingy above is the blade tensioner.
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After my coffee, 5 am poke at it,,,,,,,,
John’s foray into the kitchen,,,,,,
A hand powered knife sharpener.
A wine bottle cork remover.
(that would sit on the same shelf as the earlier nut cracker)
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A tackle box…full of spare parts from the BCTW warehouse. WhatdoIwin?
It is obviously related to cutting conic sections on the JMP.
-Steve
Do we get a discount if we order it now?