Chris Colman
08-25-2011, 10:28 AM
I found it!
I knew there was a 12-step program for the turning vortex. Here it is, courtesy of the Kansas city woodturners club www.kcwoodturners.org (http://www.kcwoodturners.org)
TWELVE STEPS FOR WOODTURNERS
Step 1 - We admit we are powerless over our need for tools. Our lives are incorrigible.
Step 2 - We realize that the probability of sanity is rather remote. There is no point in fighting our
affliction so we give in.
Step 3 - We simply make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the creative process, as we
grow to understand that process, wherever that may lead us.
Step 4 - We have made a searching and fearless inventory of our shop and especially of all our
tools.
Step 5 - We admit to ourselves and everyone we know, the exact nature of our skills, techniques,
and our degree of involvement with our affliction.
Step 6 - We are entirely ready to have all our defects and shortcomings removed so that we can turn
wonderful pieces on our lathes.
Step 7 - We humbly ask our friends and neighbors to give us all their cut down trees, especially
those of hard wood, so that we may have much to turn with.
Step 8 - We have made a list of all the people to whom we want to give gifts of our turnings and es-
pecially all the possible people who may be willing to purchase what we make. We apolo-
gize to all of those we may have hurt because of our affliction: especially to our spouses
and children who may have gone without food, clothing, and attention because of our need
for more tools, wood, DVD's, periodicals, time with our group, classes, and our relationship
with our lathe.
Step 9 - We will directly talk to anyone we meet about our affliction whenever possible. We try to
limit our conversations to those people we believe have the ability to support this behavior
as we consciously wish to harm no one.
Step 10 - We will continue to make our inventories so that we are prepared to purchase whatever we
need, or may possibly need at some point in the near or distant future, so that we are al
ways prepared to buy, buy, buy so we can turn, turn, turn.
Step 11 - We allow ourselves to be directed to those in the know for additional information and tech-
niques to perfect our practice.
Step 12 - We realize that there is no rational reason for our behavior, that ours is a gift and we need
to keep on giving. We feel obligated to spread the word to the four corners of the
earth, or the next person we meet, which ever is closer.
I knew there was a 12-step program for the turning vortex. Here it is, courtesy of the Kansas city woodturners club www.kcwoodturners.org (http://www.kcwoodturners.org)
TWELVE STEPS FOR WOODTURNERS
Step 1 - We admit we are powerless over our need for tools. Our lives are incorrigible.
Step 2 - We realize that the probability of sanity is rather remote. There is no point in fighting our
affliction so we give in.
Step 3 - We simply make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the creative process, as we
grow to understand that process, wherever that may lead us.
Step 4 - We have made a searching and fearless inventory of our shop and especially of all our
tools.
Step 5 - We admit to ourselves and everyone we know, the exact nature of our skills, techniques,
and our degree of involvement with our affliction.
Step 6 - We are entirely ready to have all our defects and shortcomings removed so that we can turn
wonderful pieces on our lathes.
Step 7 - We humbly ask our friends and neighbors to give us all their cut down trees, especially
those of hard wood, so that we may have much to turn with.
Step 8 - We have made a list of all the people to whom we want to give gifts of our turnings and es-
pecially all the possible people who may be willing to purchase what we make. We apolo-
gize to all of those we may have hurt because of our affliction: especially to our spouses
and children who may have gone without food, clothing, and attention because of our need
for more tools, wood, DVD's, periodicals, time with our group, classes, and our relationship
with our lathe.
Step 9 - We will directly talk to anyone we meet about our affliction whenever possible. We try to
limit our conversations to those people we believe have the ability to support this behavior
as we consciously wish to harm no one.
Step 10 - We will continue to make our inventories so that we are prepared to purchase whatever we
need, or may possibly need at some point in the near or distant future, so that we are al
ways prepared to buy, buy, buy so we can turn, turn, turn.
Step 11 - We allow ourselves to be directed to those in the know for additional information and tech-
niques to perfect our practice.
Step 12 - We realize that there is no rational reason for our behavior, that ours is a gift and we need
to keep on giving. We feel obligated to spread the word to the four corners of the
earth, or the next person we meet, which ever is closer.