Fer beating kids that get out of line. Or paddling a canoe. Either one.
What did you do in your shop today?
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Fer beating kids that get out of line. Or paddling a canoe. Either one.
Don't they normally do that when you're much younger?
You really gonna stick that beautiful piece of work down in an algee Bloom or knock rocks over in the crick look'n for crawl dad's ?
Works a lot better than using just your hands. One of these days I'll do a tutorial on how easy it is to make them.
Today I wrote some thank you cards to a few very caring family members but I didn't do that until after I put my new lathe together. I only had my Jet 1642 for two months but it was sold a couple days ago when I found out about my early Christmas present, my family made up the difference (the 1642 sold for what I paid for it). This is a new Jet 1640evs with a rotating headstock, it will make it easier for me to stay in a stool and keep working at the lathe when I can't be on my feet.
Today I wrote some thank you cards to a few very caring family members but I didn't do that until after I put my new lathe together. I only had my Jet 1642 for two months but it was sold a couple days ago when I found out about my early Christmas present, my family made up the difference (the 1642 sold for what I paid for it). This is a new Jet 1640evs with a rotating headstock, it will make it easier for me to stay in a stool and keep working at the lathe when I can't be on my feet.
Awesome David!!! Have you fired that puppy up yet? Tony
@Tony , are you crazy? Its perfectly clean and waxed, and my shop doesn't have one piece of saw dust in it right now, why would I mess all that up?
Actually, I did turn it on, very quiet, very smooth and rpm goes down to 33 (specs say 40). I'm too pooped today as I had a long drive back home today and then had to go get this. Maybe tomorrow. Definitely not this weekend, I'm picking up a bunch of black locust that needs to be processed.
A clean shop - definition; A mythical place once thought to be in existence but after extensive searches none have yet to be found. A rumor to raise the hopes of spouses across the globe, a place where every woodworker would get lost.
Clean shop? What are these devil words you speak of?
I suppose I shouldn't mention that my small shop is usually spotless.... 8 out of 10 times I clean, sweep and vacuum when I'm done for the day. I know, I'm an amateur woodworker and I'm not doing it right.
You haven't met Ken have you??? Klick on his name up there, and go look up a few of his model build threads... The guy cleans his shop between pieces! He cuts 3 identical pieces, he shuts down and breaks out the dust buster between cuts! He builds model cars now, parts the size of a mouse's testicles. You gotta blow pictures up 1000x to find a speck of sawdust on progress pictures. Rumor has it, he goes through the kitchen cabinets and rearranges his wife's Tupperware Bowls in his sleep!!
You've got 2 choices here David. Either stop all that silly cleaning or move to Canada. That's the place for OCD cleaners!! Tony
You'll be happy to know that I couldn't wait so I went back into the shop last night and started turning a black locust bow. And I only cleaned up half the shavings. Love the lathe so far!
Look at this mess! I'm telling you I didn't finish cleaning last night when I was done turning.
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