A happy wife ...

[Cliff Holmes]

... enjoying her new lathe!

[Bernie Weishapl]

Well Cliff she looks like a happy camper. Merry Christmas.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Yup Cliff! That'll do it!

[Heather Thompson]

Cliff,

Well done sir, hope she lets you take it for a spin sometime.

Heather

[Richard Madison]

Wife happy = you happy. Well done!

[Steve Schlumpf]

Excellent!!! Thanks for the photo!

[gary Zimmel]

A fitting picture...
Looks like you will be cooking Christmas dinner.;)

[John Keeton]

A Christmas well done!! I see she kept with the McDonald's wrapping color scheme - the red shirt to match the red bow!:D

[Bill Bolen]

I hope it was a great surprize for her, especially as hard as you worked at keeping the secret! Merry Christmas...Bill..

[Matt Ranum]

NICE!


Merry Christmas!

[Gary Herrmann]

Very nicely done, Cliff. A co-worker of mine did something like this for his wife this year. He told his wife she needed a new timing belt on her old camry. Then took it and traded it in toward a BMW 328. She drove his car and he drove hers - keeping it at a friend's house for a couple weeks. I can't wait to see the pics from that "little" surprise.

[Sid Matheny]

That's great! Happy Wife and a Happy Life!

Sid

[Bill Bulloch]

I'll bet she was happy, but was she surprised or did she already know??? I think I'd be happy too, if you would give me one of those bad boys.

[Cliff Holmes]

No, it's been on ongoing saga here on keeping it hidden in the shop for the last five weeks.

I told her it was too clumsy to wrap, so I was just going to keep it in the shop. This morning I led her in and told her that it was over by the table (the view was blocked by a pile of boxes). She thought I said *on* the table, so she walks over staring at the tool-covered table, completely missing the lathe five feet away. She walks around the table, looking at it and under the table. At this point, she has her back turned to the lathe just a couple feet behind her! I told her to turn around and then there was dead silence, then a very quiet "Oh my".

[Gary Conklin]

LOL Priceless!!!

[Kenneth Whiting]

That's awesome Cliff.

[Pete Jordan]

Husband of the year!

[Nathan Hawkes]

I've been waiting weeks to see the end of this, and I have to say this isn't what I expected. I thought that your wife must've known all along. You definitely win serious points for this one. Great job!

[Jeff Nicol]

Cliff, Since I am here at home taking care of our dogs and my wife is an hour and a half away with our daughter and our new grandson, you have had a pretty great Christmas day! Mine has not been all bad, as a new post soon will explain!

You did a wonderful thing, and should be able to do pretty much anything you want to, for say a week!


Jeff

[Steve Mawson]

Fantastic, love the story and a great present. Take some pictures of finished product---s.

Merry Christmas

[Gary Herrmann]

"Oh my"

Perfect. I aspire to surprise my wife like that one day. Very well done.

[Fred Omer]

Cliff: You should get mega brownie points as well as several good home cooked meals from that wonderful gift. I wish my wife would take up this great hobby, I would buy her a lathe. Anxious to se some of her projects from it. Fred.

[Mitchell Andrus]

Tool tray for her birthday? ... and a pile of wood.
.

[Tony De Masi]

Very well done Cliff.

Tony

[Harvey M. Taylor]

Always nice to see the ladies involved in turning. It may not look 'lady like' but would like to see some sort of dust protection for the lungs. anything is better than nothing.[a gentle hint, nothing more] Max

[Cliff Holmes]

That DC duct will soon be routed to the lathe. But even as it is, it's pulling fine dust over to it.

[Steve Kubien]

My guess is she didn't even blink at the new golf clubs that mysteriously appeared under the tree as well.