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“Being crazy isn’t enough.” –Dr. Seuss
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This clue reveals one of two black chrome parts, and some other stuff for you to ponder.
One or two more clues tomorrow and then the reveal on Friday. The CT-18 will open for pre-order the last week of April.
Regarding the mystery of the CT-18…after reading the WAG’s from the Drivel Starved Nation, I had this scary thought… could it be possible that I am the only normal person on this blog?
–John
What makes you think you’re normal? Just cause we’re all weird doesn’t make you normal. Heck – you’re the leader of the weirdos.
Now there’s a scary thought.
— Peter
I believe the CT-18 will be used in concert with an existing BCT tool. If not, I guess I will soon be cold……….
Normal? “In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.” It’s all relative John, it’s all relative.
-Rutager
@zipdang;
Frozen to the bone is your fate–but with zero neurons how would you know?
-John
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@Peter,
Being the leader of a neuron free world sounds doable. I accept, and cannot wait to tap into my hidden Caligula. Thos without BCTW tools… it is not pretty.
-John
Even if we are just plane guessing at this point, the piecemeal reveal is a lot of fun.
Oh, I was supposed to make another guess: The black chrome piece looks like the plumb bob holder from the PB-9 and the tapered piece could be a “bob,” and the large pieces look like they could support the works so you can find plumb in open space when you have no straight edges for reference, like in chair building. I’ll dig out the bathing suit and get some tanning lotion in SPF 125.
-Rutager
It is fun to celebrate the CT tools. Around here, the celebration is for our customers. We simply underestimated how crazy our customers are.
Did I just end a sentence with a preposition? Oops.
-John
The “beak” thingy on top of the “T” for sure has to be a stylus of sorts to help set the adjustment on the souped-up spokeshaveish CT-18.
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;-]
@Rutager,
You won’t need as much sunscreen as you think…where you are going things tend to shrink real bad.
AND, do not reply to this post, remember, you are still on parole.
-John
Hello there my fellow whole nuts gang! Late day at work. It looks like there are a lot of advancements…(both to the frozen tundra as well as toward the equator.)
The darn thing is slowly coming out of the mist it seems…and speaking of that and the many references to hairy nights in a dual sleeping bag at the pole, my first reaction was the BCT ice skates as someone mentioned already. I can’t help but see bits and pieces of previous innovations showing up here. The little HP-6 may have helped spawn this critter. I see holes in the side plates which lead me to believe there are attached devices to them which will set some angle of attack. The golf tee (you should try to sell these to Tiger Woods by the way) would make a great blade adjustment knob…I’m convinced it is a plane which will do profiles on larger pieces. This is not a toy John is making. This one is a REAL (ARRH, ARRH, ARRH), tool!
Dennis
Do we have to assemble it from parts? Is the wrench included, I mean Ikea gives you at least two crummy wrenches with everything you buy.
Is it a radius measuring tool, I mean after all you have an angle measuring tool so it must need a mate.
plow plane?
John,
You can be normal if we get to be extraordinary.
I should have recognized the round part with at the top right as being half of the depth adjuster “nut”. The other half and the adjuster are on top of the letter T.
I don’t think that the black chrome part is a pressure pad for the clamping linkage.
Have you seen the online shop floor plan programs where you can virtually rearrange your shop? Put the tablesaw here, workbench there, drill press there… How cool would it be if we could click and drag components to assemble our own versions of the CT18?
Look into it!
(Has anybody else noticed that the dash is just floating in space. Could that be a hint?)
Chris, who thinks he just turned the directional arrow that reads “Equator” towards Antarctica.
@kcorbin;
The one tool required to use the CT-18 was an owner brain. This blog leaves many questions unanswered…
@Chris; Say Hi to Peter and Rutager at the Penguin Ball.
John, you know we’re just having fun with our WAGs. Just like we know you’ll lead us down the wrong path with our clues.
I think I see a skew adjuster without threading for depth adjustment. The large diameter hole in what seems like it would be a lever cap matches the diameter of the black chrome “foot”, but the parts wouldn’t match up that way in a normal plane.
I’m also intrigued by the use of 4 colors so far – it will be interesting to see the final composition.
I think the black chrome piece is a decorative element, the long threaded stud screws into the perpendicular (from the other holes) on the black piece. the “H” shaped link connects by pin to the black piece on the small holed extension. The chrome handle attaches to the other end of the link by pin. The half nuts accept the blade adjustor and the adjuster is the “golf tee”. The barrel shaped chrome piece is a stand – off of sorts which connects the guides (or depth stops) – alias ice skates – to the plane body. We need to see the plane iron John! Now….If you tell me to get a double zipper sleeping bag that may create trouble….three people with a double bag will leave one man out (or is that one man in)….
DJ
I’m going to guess that the key missing parts are the irons – one convex; one concave. The fences are adjusted to let the iron ride at a height corresponding to the radius of the curve being formed. The skew of the blade would allow for multiple radeii from a single grind. Brilliant idea, as usual.
Alex,
You are wrong, but what a great idea! I have tucked that one away and the brilliance is all yours! 100 neuron bonus award!
-John
Looks to be the offspring of a CT-17 and HP-8.
The blade clamping mechanism from CT-17
and the adjustable depth stops from HP-8 ????
I think the adjustable depth stops set at different
heights will allow for a beveled i.e. not square edge. That might be what clue number 2 was
pointing to.
Damn this cost me another neuron…….
Bob,
50 neurons headed your way–you will now be able to solve the NYT Sunday crossword puzzle in under 3 minutes.
John
A thneed!
The 1/4-20 screws fit the holes on the JMP tables, do they not? Would this be a complex work-holding jig that will fit both the JMP and its new fence? How else could you accurately cut the dovetails on a curve as in Clue #2? The round holes in the fence would have great significance if this is the case.
I think I have a few sub-assemblies put together in my mind…
Alex – See my guess above – #2. I was thinking something similar, but John quickly banished me to the frigid tundra!
John,
Is this a small plane that can be used like a thickness planer? The body sits between the large black skates in the foreground and it allows you to repeatedly dimension something like inlay stringing?
Not sure about you guys, but I am going to fit some bad a#$^ aftermarket SUV wheels on the depth fence. The holes are ready. Once we see the whole picture will figure out how to add some color changing led’s under the sole.