John Blazy
04-17-2003, 11:21 PM
Ok ok ok. I know this'll make me look a little too insecure in my manhood, and I'm baring one of my deeper insecurities, but after reading all the stuff lately and throughout the forum on slicks, I must ask for some clarity and . . oh please . . affirmation on my current belief that I own a beautiful Greenlee slick.
Follow me down a digressing road (screenplayed like one of Ralphie's childhood experiences from "A Christmas Story") of drool drama for a moment, and picture yerself in my shoes at a flea market one day about sixteen years ago, a boy shortly out of furniture design school with visions of firmer chisels in his head as he pokes around for old stanley corrugated - bottom planes for ten bucks, and finds buried deep in an old cardboard box . . . oh oh could it be . . IT IS!! Handle-less and encased in black scaly rust and rounded over from horrible abuse is the most beautiful tool imaginable, a socket slick of at least two inches wide! And oh did it ring enough to call every dog in the neighborhood when I hit it with a wrench, proving its heat treatment.
I sheepishly ask how much if I bought another little stanley chisel with it, and seven bucks later I was already hollow grinding in my head, driving out in bliss.
Getting the socket cleaned up to add its new ash handle, I unearthed this name under the now gleaming steel, "GREENLEE" and I felt like Indiana Jones finding the Well of Souls.
Oh the finely tailored suit that a belt sander, grinder, and a waterstone can dress this baby.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/p8d12571ad9e5b71f1870f5637c0fee86/fc520d1a.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/p0d01e1d15a0a02944282ee426fc79a6c/fc520d19.jpg
So anyway, back to my query. I've blissfully believed all these years that this is a true slick, as I had read so many years ago that any chisel two inches and wider is a slick. Buuuttt . . . the distinguished Dr. Fleming and others have made reference to slicks of 2-1/2" and wider, and I slowly pictured a large bubble and Dave holding a pin near it.
Now I know that the handle should have been a long, non-struck handle, but I love the aesthetics of the steel slam ring I made from 1" black pipe - and the heel of my palm pushes it oh so nicely when I need to, as I, of course would never strike it with my mallet ;) .
So I am asking for affirmation that this is indeed a slick.
If I hear "its just a chisel", I don't think I could handle that kind of rejection. I mean, I've timber framed with it, used it professionally to this day, its always laid on my beech workbench back-surface up, its never scraped glue off concrete (I think), and and and most of all, I have seen the elephant as mahogony flew off (slow motion pan) the gunwhale planks of my WOODEN BOAT , destined to be parted by the warmed steel of its razor edge.
Just a little affirmation? Please???
Does size really matter ?!?!? :D
[ 04-17-2003, 11:26 PM: Message edited by: John Blazy ]
Follow me down a digressing road (screenplayed like one of Ralphie's childhood experiences from "A Christmas Story") of drool drama for a moment, and picture yerself in my shoes at a flea market one day about sixteen years ago, a boy shortly out of furniture design school with visions of firmer chisels in his head as he pokes around for old stanley corrugated - bottom planes for ten bucks, and finds buried deep in an old cardboard box . . . oh oh could it be . . IT IS!! Handle-less and encased in black scaly rust and rounded over from horrible abuse is the most beautiful tool imaginable, a socket slick of at least two inches wide! And oh did it ring enough to call every dog in the neighborhood when I hit it with a wrench, proving its heat treatment.
I sheepishly ask how much if I bought another little stanley chisel with it, and seven bucks later I was already hollow grinding in my head, driving out in bliss.
Getting the socket cleaned up to add its new ash handle, I unearthed this name under the now gleaming steel, "GREENLEE" and I felt like Indiana Jones finding the Well of Souls.
Oh the finely tailored suit that a belt sander, grinder, and a waterstone can dress this baby.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/p8d12571ad9e5b71f1870f5637c0fee86/fc520d1a.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/p0d01e1d15a0a02944282ee426fc79a6c/fc520d19.jpg
So anyway, back to my query. I've blissfully believed all these years that this is a true slick, as I had read so many years ago that any chisel two inches and wider is a slick. Buuuttt . . . the distinguished Dr. Fleming and others have made reference to slicks of 2-1/2" and wider, and I slowly pictured a large bubble and Dave holding a pin near it.
Now I know that the handle should have been a long, non-struck handle, but I love the aesthetics of the steel slam ring I made from 1" black pipe - and the heel of my palm pushes it oh so nicely when I need to, as I, of course would never strike it with my mallet ;) .
So I am asking for affirmation that this is indeed a slick.
If I hear "its just a chisel", I don't think I could handle that kind of rejection. I mean, I've timber framed with it, used it professionally to this day, its always laid on my beech workbench back-surface up, its never scraped glue off concrete (I think), and and and most of all, I have seen the elephant as mahogony flew off (slow motion pan) the gunwhale planks of my WOODEN BOAT , destined to be parted by the warmed steel of its razor edge.
Just a little affirmation? Please???
Does size really matter ?!?!? :D
[ 04-17-2003, 11:26 PM: Message edited by: John Blazy ]