All layout benchwork builders have encountered the situation where they find they’ve cut a couple pieces too short. A friend sent me a Youtube video showing a problem solver for this. It is a Duhwalt Wood Stretcher, model BS1000. If you are in need of this, look here:
Genius. I wonder if using powdered plastics would embigulate an Athearn 73’ passenger car into full length?
Dave Nelson
Well there ya go Dave! Time to get working on that prototype! The market awaits!.
Mike.
If it for real,and really does work, WHY?
I pretty sure I could buy a whole bunch of 2X4s ,and throw most of them away, and still be cheaper then buying it.
And if your in the habit of making the same mistake over and over: not sure a machine will help your problem
I wonder how many “takes” this video took to complete. Real hard not to explode in laughter when you see and hear all of the references to BS.
I hope the folks at DeWalt got a laugh out of this, including their lawyers.
Mike.
Great invention!!! I think I’ll buy two! That way I can stretch both ends of my board!
Dave [(-D][(-D][(-D][tup][bow]
AWESOME! Unfortunately I do not have room for one in my already too small workspace.
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Thanks for the fun post.
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-Kevin
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I was thinking the same thing. But I don’t think the DeWalt lawyers are laughing.
Shrewd thinking! No flies on you.
Plus it doesn’t work in pressurized basements anyway.
Dave Nelson
Years ago I read a small book written by Norm Abram about growing up under his carpenter father titled “Measure Twice, Cut Once”. I got the same advice from my junior high school woodshop teacher- and practice it always in my garage shop and on the layout- you can’t beat basic common sense!
Cedarwoodron
Still doesn’t protect you from measuring twice, even making a nice dark X on the side to cut to, for the saw kerf, and then - cutting ont he wrong side of the line. Now instead of a mis-measured board inches too short because of measuring once, now you have a board that is just short enough to throw an otherwise right angle corner off just enough to be annoying.
Thankfully that doesn’t happen very often, or I would definitely be in the market for a BS1000.
–Randy
Sure it helps you. When you run the piece through the machine it gets a little longer than original so you can cut it again. And if you cut too short the second time you just run it through the machine again.
They accually do make a board stretcher, it is called a finger glue joint.
Their rival company Block & Docker makes the H(orse)H(ockey)2000 even comes with a free bag of Cow Manure.[(-D]
I actually was looking through my YouTube video suggestions and saw this.[(-D]
Maybe the DUH-WALT guys have something to do with this:
https://jalopnik.com/poop-train-full-of-human-waste-is-making-life-in-an-ala-1825398657/amp
Clearly this devise was invented by Professor Irwin Corey
I see it works on common 2 x 4’s. I wonder if it works on baseboards and trim, though. There’s been a couple of times it would have been handy.
I think it could also be expanded sideways, and used for plywood. Man, THAT could be real useful.
Ed
Especially after you spent half an hour making a nice coped corner of a wierd angle and tweaked height… Man that would be handy to just make the piece a quarter inch longer.
And as for measure twice, I changed that rule. Measure three times, go to the lumber yard once.