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It makes the boards flat. Simply running a board through a planer, flipping it, and running the other side through will give you a smooth finish on both sides- but it is not necessarily flat. You can't create a flat surface unless you have a flat surface to begin with. The Newman makes things flat. Once you have one flat side, then the boards go to the planer to create a flat side that is parallel to the side that passed over the Newman. From there you can plane, flip the board, and then plane the other side of the board until you reach desired thickness. An important step that gets skipped in a lot of places. Actually, the Hamer shop is full of vintage woodworking machines. The old stuff is 1000 times better than the stuff built today. No plastic pieces on that stuff ANYWHERE! It's built like a Sherman tank. It has VERY sharp blades spinning in close proximity to the operator. The thing would send your hand up the dust collector before you knew what the F just happened. Just about every Hamer board passed over that thing. Good screen name for Dave since just about every Hamer built in about the last 25 years passed through him at some point. Isn't that fucking priceless. Old school machines and processes always work fucking awesome. G***d has $5,392,742.67 worth of cnc and tooling, plus fucking stupid new wave processes and there shit is fucked up all over the place. Someone shoot me. Let me have my Peanut Butter Ben + Jerry's first. Bm

It's almost like they're speaking English.

I've been looking for that Sharpie for the past year. Bm

There is a rumor going round that there will be a Facebook page in the future that will have plenty of photos of the early years of Hamer. People and behind the scenes photos of custom shop builds. Maybe you might see photos of your custom shop Hamer! Or maybe you might see a photo of your favorite Hamer personality with a chiapet hairstyle! Bm

Using your post HSB0531, I'll offer up a blanket thank you to all for the heaping helping of compliments. While I can't take credit for building such an amazing ax, I can take a small level of satisfaction in having come up with the paint design and the specs. Good to know that shit-ton of money I dropped on post secondary art education/training wasn't for naught.

Nothing went wrong, your mind just fixated on a powerful stimuli- the image of a kick ass guitar.