Our own Bob Smalser

[landlocked sailor]

FWW 181. Thanks Bob, though I'll bet you have a nice smile. Rick
Edited to say "own" instead of "OLD".

[ 11-17-2005, 10:48 PM: Message edited by: landlocked sailor ]

[capt jake]

Don't be so cryptic. smile.gif I skimmed through it again and it doesn't pop out at me. smile.gif

[Meerkat]

Bless him.

[capt jake]

OK, must be 'Fine Wood Working'? in which case I will have to search it out.

[Mrleft8]

How'd you get 181 already? :confused:

[dmede]

http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/pages/fw_181_046.asp#

Cool, this very subject has been on my mind recently.

Should be some good info and in reputable print form this time too! :D

[landlocked sailor]

He is in the annual Tools & Shops issue 181; I got it yesterday. Rick

[Paul Pless]

http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/media/fw_181_046a.jpg

[raycon]

Nice...now I have a reason to buy a copy.

[Figment]

Somehow I've never pictured Bob in a spotless cream colored shirt. :D

[Meerkat]

Originally posted by Figment:
Somehow I've never pictured Bob in a spotless cream colored shirt. :D Colonels where often found in spotless kakis at one time... ;)

Back in the day, they called them "pinks" because that's what the Brits called the color. A summer dress or undress uniform.

[Paul Pless]

Somehow I've never pictured Bob in a spotless cream colored shirt. I was expecting a sidearm, a less organized shop, and more hair. ;)

edit to add winking, smiling, emoticon so that Bob wouldn't get mad about the hair comment.

[ 11-19-2005, 08:29 AM: Message edited by: Paul Pless ]

[Buddy Sharpton]

Got to add an "embellishment" on the pinks. American khakis in WWII and after were often called suntans, particularly by enlisted. Enlisted winter uniform were olive drab wool pants, shirts, short "IKE" jacket and dress tunic. Officers winter tunics were a darker more forest green. Shirt worn with this could be a similar dark green. But trousers worn with this tunic were a much pinker, less yellow/green shade of tan than the cotton khakis.There were also dress shirts of this color as well. Impossible to get uniform match to the khakis or pinks from garment to garment. Lots of time the combination of class A winter uniforms of dark green tunic and the pink- ish tan trousers was itself called the pinks as the summer class A uniform was called khakis.
Or so I believe. Being born in 1949 this is what I have learned , but in 1964 in high school ROTC, the senior cadets at my school winter class A uniforms were for the last year still surplus pinks, everybody else had olive drabs. In 1965 we all were issued brand new Army Green AG 44 unifi=orms identical to the regular army with the addition of teal label overlays. That AG44 color was only replaces I think two years ago in the regular army.

Didn't know the Brits had any origin in the naming of pink to the US color. Their khaki cotton drill was darker and more yellow than ours and the color of their tan summer #2 dress uniform was called stone. It had more red in the tint than the summer khaki, but wasn't any where near describeable as pink. Some Hussars #1 Dress pants were in fact a burgundy pink, but that's a whole 'nougher story.

[Bob Smalser]

It was fun, thanks.

I was frank about what newcomers need to buy and what they don't, IMO. As the article's theme was "We tell you what the manufacturers don't.", I was pleasantly surprised at the forthright approach I was allowed. The only thing that got cut was a 7th page on rehabbing fleamarket oldies ILO buying new, and that was for space....it was already two pages longer than any other article in the mag, and it's reasonably obvious none of the chisels hanging in my shop were made after WWII.

Senior Editor Andy Engel and Art Director Mike Pekovich are the guys responsible for the neat presentation and layout....I just wrote the words. The premium Barr chisels we used in the photo shoot were Mike's personal set.

We'll see how the non-shill approach is received.

And no, none of us involved got to keep all those new chisels. Strict publisher policy, and a good one.

[ 11-20-2005, 06:39 PM: Message edited by: Bob Smalser ]

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

:cool: I'll be looking for that issue.

[Kermit]

I was well into the article when I looked at a photo and realized I knew this guy! BTW, Bob, whose shop in the photos?

[JimM]

Bob
Recieved my copy today and read your artical first. Great Job. Please keep teaching this stuff. Jim McGee

[Bob Smalser]

Originally posted by Kermit:
I was well into the article when I looked at a photo and realized I knew this guy! BTW, Bob, whose shop in the photos?My temporary shop. The art director looked at my neighbor's old-timey blacksmith-woodworking shop but felt he could get adequate pics in mine.

[Meerkat]

Originally posted by Paul Pless:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr /> Somehow I've never pictured Bob in a spotless cream colored shirt. I was expecting a sidearm, a less organized shop, and more hair. ;)
</font>[/QUOTE]Oh, that's the everyday, down on the farm Bob... this is his uptown look! ;)

[Meerkat]

Buddy;

I completely defer to your knowledge of Army uniforms! What I posted was a vague recollection of my dad's uniforms sometime in the 50's when I was quite a young sprout of about 7 or 8.

Now that you mention it, I can distinctly recall the difference between his "pinks" or suntans and his summer kakis (or, is that what suntans are?). Seems like I can recall that the mixed green/pink uniform was more spring/fall dress and the whole green deal was winter and kakis where summer. I have this memory of him overhauling his kit one day and seeing all the various uniforms.

Anyway, it's all water under the bridge. Everything's changed now. Does the Army even still have a dress uniform? All I ever see anymore are BDU's or whatever they're calling them now.

[Mrleft8]

I still haven't received my copy... :(

[Buddy Sharpton]

The Army's "winter " green poly wool uniform changed a couple of years ago to a slightly darker shad very similar to the AG 44 shade it replaced. This is the dress uniform issued to every enlisted serviceman, for parade and offical social functions alike. A dress uniform of short open jacket and cummerbund and bowtie is also still in service. Corporals and above can still buy a dress blues uniform, very much like a movie wester. Dark blue "suit jacket" medium blue pants with color leg stripe. A round garrison cap, not a beret is standard. Cavalry and transportation units can go in for the slouch hat and even boots and spurs. This uniform is issue for certain ceremonial duties.

[Mrleft8]

Good article Bob! You certainly aren't taking any chances that that stock might get away are you!? ;) You and Ian Kirby have a very similar approach to hand tools and wood. Looks like you're trying to split that poor piece of wood in half with one mighty swing of the mallet! ;)