BTW -- Three weeks ago I stumbled onto the web site of Tobacos de la Cordillera in Costa Rica & scored a sampler. Just now finished the front lawn, so I sat down on the smoking porch to compose this. Pulled out one of those TdlC sticks called Purisco. Goddam if it doesn't smell zackly like that problematical WLT H2k non-burning wrapper. Dead spot on. I'll be fascinated to see how this performs.
So... get to the subject...
I was able to score just one tuck cutter from Frutiger. It was fairly rough, but salvageable. Re-conditioned it today. Here's the key bit:
See that L shaped pin? That pin holds the whole business together. That pin holds the collar it goes thru onto a shaft. That shaft holds spring, blades, and the whole works. Gotta love the nineteenth century. They invented some awesomely simple shit. Here's the parts exploded view:
This is after some SOS and elbow grease. In fact, this is after some new grease, on shaft, collar, and anything else that swings round.
Super easy to sharpen your blades. Each blade is dished. Here's a view of both blades supine:
... so you simply lay each blade prone on your stone and rub it back & forth. Like so:
The star shaped blade is dished on ones side. You pick your best edge & rotate. But the other blade is dished on both sides, cause you flip it over depending whether you are rolling a fat one. Dish down, rub rub, done before you know it.
To put it all back together, trap your blades on the shaft, slide your shaft into the body, drop your spring and collar over, make sure your spring engages its detents at either end in collar and body, send you L shaped pin into the collar and use that to give your collar a half tun in order to tension the spring, then send it thru. Done.
Mounts with two screws onto the back side of your cutting board thus:
I'll give it a whack at a new roll later this evening.
No, this same smellin wrapper doesn't burn any better than the problematic WLT H2k
I hate windoze. Posted this from my Win10 laptop, which decide to go thru a lengthy update w/ reboot while I was working on this. The update also killed my wireless connection which had to be troubleshot. I don't know how people put up with this Redmond abortion.
So... get to the subject...
I was able to score just one tuck cutter from Frutiger. It was fairly rough, but salvageable. Re-conditioned it today. Here's the key bit:
See that L shaped pin? That pin holds the whole business together. That pin holds the collar it goes thru onto a shaft. That shaft holds spring, blades, and the whole works. Gotta love the nineteenth century. They invented some awesomely simple shit. Here's the parts exploded view:
This is after some SOS and elbow grease. In fact, this is after some new grease, on shaft, collar, and anything else that swings round.
Super easy to sharpen your blades. Each blade is dished. Here's a view of both blades supine:
... so you simply lay each blade prone on your stone and rub it back & forth. Like so:
The star shaped blade is dished on ones side. You pick your best edge & rotate. But the other blade is dished on both sides, cause you flip it over depending whether you are rolling a fat one. Dish down, rub rub, done before you know it.
To put it all back together, trap your blades on the shaft, slide your shaft into the body, drop your spring and collar over, make sure your spring engages its detents at either end in collar and body, send you L shaped pin into the collar and use that to give your collar a half tun in order to tension the spring, then send it thru. Done.
Mounts with two screws onto the back side of your cutting board thus:
I'll give it a whack at a new roll later this evening.
No, this same smellin wrapper doesn't burn any better than the problematic WLT H2k
I hate windoze. Posted this from my Win10 laptop, which decide to go thru a lengthy update w/ reboot while I was working on this. The update also killed my wireless connection which had to be troubleshot. I don't know how people put up with this Redmond abortion.
