Kenneth George
11-27-2004, 8:49 PM
I have been married to my wife for 25 years now and I swear the older we get the more I tend to amuse her it seems. Today I was making some Christmas ornaments at her request and everything was going just fine until I found a very small crack in a piece of Bubinga that I had already glued onto the 70% finished ornament. Well it was in a place that I knew I had to fix or it would completely break out when I tried to install the eye hook. I normally am a fan of the thick CA glue as it is more controllable and gives a few more seconds on the curing but I needed to use the thin on this so it would flow down into the crack. So I put some CA in the crack and squeezed it together as hard as I could. You have to understand that this piece had finish on it so it was pretty shiny at this point. Well as you probably guessed by now I glued myself to the finial. If that was not bad enough it had also run down between my fingers which were now rather securely glued together. I felt this was not a big problem and I am sure other people have done this also in the past so I would just go in the house and I bet the wife has some finger nail polish remover and the issue will be solved.
No mater how you try to sneak around or act as nothing is wrong while trying to make it to the bathroom cabinet your wife will immediately sense a disturbance in the force. As I walked in the house I had no choice but to pass her watching TV and while normally she would ignore me in this case she asked “were you going?” I said to the bathroom she said “what’s in your hand?” I said an ornament I was working on and she asked “why are you taking it to the bathroom?” well I had no response to this and I think my slight pause while trying to think of some reason as to why I needed the ornament in the bathroom sent up a red flag in her mind. So the next response out of her was “let me see it” I said that I was not finished with it but she demanded so I walked over to her and showed her. She said “oh how pretty, let me hold it” and I said I can’t so of course she wanted to know why. Well without being able to think of something snappy to say I said that it is glued to my hand, she said “What!” and that was it! She was gone, she was laughing so hard she could not breathe and I was standing there wishing I had a bottle of fingernail polish in the shop.
In any case I thought I would show you what I have come up with. Just keep in mind when I joined this forum you guys were the ones that told me I had to post pictures and I lathe a lot! On the plus side I normally only lathe on the weekends.
This one was made last month and was my first ornament but since it is part of the set I thought I would post it also. It is made from Canary wood with a mystery wood for the finials that I got in a grab box of exotics. These are all hollowed out to relive weight.
http://www.theturnersshop.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/DSCF2653.jpg
This is Silver Maple with Bubinga finials.
http://www.theturnersshop.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/DSCF2662.jpg
This is my favorite so far it is made from Chicarella (name that was taped to it when I bought it) and Red Heart. I made a captive ring on this one that is my smallest yet at about the size of a nickel. I had to hand carve the back of the ring and spent quite some time with it to get it right.
http://www.theturnersshop.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/DSCF2660.jpg
Opinions, comments and suggestion always welcome.
Thanks for looking and listening to me whine.
No mater how you try to sneak around or act as nothing is wrong while trying to make it to the bathroom cabinet your wife will immediately sense a disturbance in the force. As I walked in the house I had no choice but to pass her watching TV and while normally she would ignore me in this case she asked “were you going?” I said to the bathroom she said “what’s in your hand?” I said an ornament I was working on and she asked “why are you taking it to the bathroom?” well I had no response to this and I think my slight pause while trying to think of some reason as to why I needed the ornament in the bathroom sent up a red flag in her mind. So the next response out of her was “let me see it” I said that I was not finished with it but she demanded so I walked over to her and showed her. She said “oh how pretty, let me hold it” and I said I can’t so of course she wanted to know why. Well without being able to think of something snappy to say I said that it is glued to my hand, she said “What!” and that was it! She was gone, she was laughing so hard she could not breathe and I was standing there wishing I had a bottle of fingernail polish in the shop.
In any case I thought I would show you what I have come up with. Just keep in mind when I joined this forum you guys were the ones that told me I had to post pictures and I lathe a lot! On the plus side I normally only lathe on the weekends.
This one was made last month and was my first ornament but since it is part of the set I thought I would post it also. It is made from Canary wood with a mystery wood for the finials that I got in a grab box of exotics. These are all hollowed out to relive weight.
http://www.theturnersshop.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/DSCF2653.jpg
This is Silver Maple with Bubinga finials.
http://www.theturnersshop.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/DSCF2662.jpg
This is my favorite so far it is made from Chicarella (name that was taped to it when I bought it) and Red Heart. I made a captive ring on this one that is my smallest yet at about the size of a nickel. I had to hand carve the back of the ring and spent quite some time with it to get it right.
http://www.theturnersshop.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/DSCF2660.jpg
Opinions, comments and suggestion always welcome.
Thanks for looking and listening to me whine.