One thing is for sure, you will read about here first!

–John

First let’s put something in perspective. Me – 3 kermaker’s, pfranks – 1 barely, me – HP-7 new, pfranks – HP-7 blem, etc. I think you can see where this is going, so, frightening well I can be as scary as can be but look in your wallet and THEN let’s talk.

Friday or Saturday dinner sounds good to me as well.

Fred, the troll

I love the idea of a BCTW dinner. Make sure it’s not Sunday, as I have to travel back here (left coast) that day. So Friday or Saturday.

- Peter

That said, we should plan on a BCTW dinner one night, so spread the word.

–John

- Peter

I am very much looking forward to meeting both you and Michael. The beers are on pfranks and he is now officially trapped as he said that if you would be there, he would be there.

Thank you for the timetable on the Kerfmaker.

By the way, I have been trying to get my hands on a Flushing Chisel without paying ten thousand dollars as they seem to keep costing on eBay. If you come across one that is for sale please keep me in mind.

Fred

Regarding the Tool You Want Real Bad… we are on track for late Sept. delivery.

Oct WIA conference; If pfranks is buying the beer (he only bought one Kerfmaker mind you) I will be there–Michael too.

–John

First a quick question and that is when might we expect to have the KerfMaker in our grubby little hands?

Secondly and of far more importance. Aside from the fact that there are many of us that would very, very much like to see/meet you out here on the Correct Coast in October. Some of us would also like to see pfranks get off of his duff and show his face out here as well. On our forum, I received a very devilishly clever suggestion for ensuring that pfranks winds his way out here. However, the suggestion can only be implemented with your help. What we need is between now and October any of your tools that pfranks purchases be shipped to me. Of course Natasha and/or Marissa would have to be in the loop so as to not accidentally ship it to him.

Thirdly, what in the world can we do to get you out here for the October Hand Tool Event. Those of us on this side of the country do not normally hve the opportunity to meet you and discuss your tools and what may be coming out. Unfortunately, I do not have any devilishly clever scheme to get you here. I cannot begin to tell you that there will be x number of sales but I do know that it is much easier, at least for me, to buy from someone I have met. I am pleading here man, down on my knees. Okay, I was installing some baseboard but still.

Fred

The CS12 SE is very customizable. We have no plans for wood inserts in the arms of this tool, but you certainly can mod one.

If you follow some of the techniques we propose for the HP6 Mini multi-plane, one such example is creating a “V” groove to receive a corner molding.

The arms of the CS-12 are created with a 90 degree cutter which means you can inlay a wood of choice, and sand flush on a stationary belt sander (or draw file). We are certain this will interest some of our customers, but the tool “plain” is just gorgeous.

Once we deliver this tool, we are going to open a forum for the customized versions–a show and tell forum basically.

That said, we have not given up on brass and rosewood, rather we are evolving to embrace new materials that allow us more latitude for our designs–we would like our tools to reflect contemporary values. It is exciting times here at BCTW.

–John