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Just imagine if they had had the foresight to do it in 1607 lol

The original quote was Einstein, btw

Spruce is a great material for masts because it’s light and strong. Fir might be appropriate, too. Avoid pine, it’s knotty and rots faster. Source: I was a star pupil at the USA’s oldest boatbuilding school

Check out “daisugi,” a Japanese pollarding technique that produces usable timber even faster (basically having one rootstock grow multiple main trunks). IIRC in the 1700’s they were harvesting pine every 25 years

However, it ain’t no replacement for oak. Does smell a lot better, though

Technically you can mill and shape lumber by hand with handsaws and like a jack plane. It does take awhile, though

Or maybe it was the opposite, they were a basic project assigned to beginner metalsmiths to teach them the different skills. That’s why they’re everywhere, because everyone who went to the Roman equivalent of trade school made, like, 1-3.

The problem is that, legally speaking, the lower receiver is the gun. So you can buy all the other parts online with no background check etc.

A person with a machine shop and knowledge on how to use it could also do this

One could frame it and put it on the wall

Thank you for saying this, I get sick of this one. Also I think most of what people were drinking historically was more “small beers” like modern kvass or kombucha with 1-2% alcohol. People weren’t just getting fucked up all the time.

B&H Photo will not process your order on the Jewish day of rest, it’s amazing. www.bhphotovideo.com/c/…/SHcalendar.jsp

Well of course you gotta think, Reddit and Twitter were also probably getting a lot more hits than Low Tech Mag 😅