You know you're a turner when.....

[Bob Noles]

you keep your vehicle keys inside your chainsaw case :D

[Jim Dunn]

You look at material to see how much to glue up before you can turn it round.

[Mac McAtee]

You take your shirt off at the end of the day and the pockets are full of wood shavings.

[Don Baer]

You get a gleam in your eye when there's a wind storm and you know that some trees are gonna go down.

[Kurt Rosenzweig]

When you take a walk in the woods and all the trees shake with fear!

[Robert Mickley]

You turn aound or drive out of your way to follow a tree service truck

[Robert Mickley]

you see a log truck and think,,how many bowls are there

[John Hart]

You carefully examine each piece of firewood before you throw it in the fire.

[ROBERT SCHUMAN]

When You Clean Up With A Snow Shovel!

[Karl Laustrup]

You live in Cleveland and there are no trees left. ;) :D :D

Just joshin ya Frick. ;)

Karl

[Curt Fuller]

You can't see the forest for the bowls!

[Travis Stinson]

You rob the blades off your jointer and cut them up to make scrapers for your hollowing rig.:D

[Bernie Weishapl]

When ya got more wood chips in your pocket than change.

[Mike Ramsey]

You go online the first thing out of bed and log in to SMC before the coffee is ready to see what John Hart turned while you were sleeping ;)

[Mike Ramsey]

You look around your shop to see if there are any flat work tools (jointer)
left that you can return or sell to buy more turning tools :D

[Mark Cothren]

You use your GPS to mark way points and locate trees that you check after every storm blows through...

[Jim Becker]

When you discover that the "bowls on the hoof" along the road are more distracting and dangerious than a hand-held cell phone...

[Bill Stevener]

Your body is fully engulfed with some unknown rash, because you have gotten into some outstanding looking exotic wood.

Your neighbors think you have joined the space program, because they see you all the time with this funny looking head gear on with all types of hosing coming out of it in to air packs.

You realise you have missed supper, because you just looked at the clock and it's now 11 pm.

You know your a turner when you try to out do Norm and maintain five lathes with a grinder for each one.

Bill.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[Andy Hoyt]

When you have lost all sense of touch in your fingertips due to their perpetual state of being encased in CA glue.

And your entire hands are forever discolored from turning too much green walnut

[Pat Jeddy]

When your husband is golfing in Hawaii, sees the groundskeepers cutting down a tree, they give him a 15" dia x 4 ft piece and finds out it is KOA!!!!:cool:

[John Hart]

When your husband is golfing in Hawaii, sees the groundskeepers cutting down a tree, they give him a 15" dia x 4 ft piece and finds out it is KOA!!!!:cool:


HOLY COW!!!

[Stu Ablett in Tokyo Japan]

Dunno, I'm still waiting for my lathe......

[Bruce Shiverdecker]

Your Better Half puts blinders on you BEFORE she'll let you drive.........Doesn't want to have to see you DROOL over all the wood left from state road projects.

Bruce

[Andy Hoyt]

When you're
Dunno, I'm still waiting for my lathe......
Works for me!

[Christopher Pine]

when you turn wood

[Ron Ainge]

you know you turn to much when the tree trimmer service hates to see yo coming:p

[Raymond Overman]

When you turn in your sleep and wake up beside your chainsaw?

When you're from near Charlotte, NC and the Panthers lose you don't really care. That just means you can spend another Sunday afternoon in front of the lathe?

When you can name a dozen nationally known turners from pictures of their work and dozens more not so known turners from across the world?

When your wife, your co-workers, your friends, your family, and some people that you've just met have a nice new wood slim line pen, you know you're a new woodturner. :eek:

When you bring something in from the shop and your wife says, "That's nice honey." without even looking up?

[Glenn Clabo]

When the FedEx man comes stumbling red faced to your door with a little box that weighs 90lbs!

[roy knapp]

Not sure yet but just back from machine tool dealer having placed my order for my jet 1442.:) :) (the ABYSS)

[Andy Hoyt]

All right, Roy!

[John Hart]

Cool Roy! Welcome to heaven. You should go collect some firewood!;)

[Cecil Arnold]

Way to go Roy, welcome to the dark side. You listening Ken?

[Joe Melton]

You go to the Smithsonian, see George Washington's desk, and mutter "I could make a fortune turning and selling pens from that wood."

[Bob Noles]

Hot Dang Roy.... you finally did it! Another one bites the dust.....

Who's next........Ken?

[Jeff Horton]

rofl :d:d

[Keith Burns]

When you sell your luxury car and get a yugo so you can afford a new PM lathe:eek:

[Gary Max]

Your last lathe cost more than your truck or the wife's van.

You carry anchorseal in both of your cars.

You can not find the tablesaw anymore because it's buried under a mountain of bowl blanks.

The shop is insured for more than your house.

[Don Baer]

you walk by your wives rose bushes and wonder if shed miss that lovely burl if you pruned it off..;)

I realy did just that this morning.

[Ron Sardo]

When your table saw has become a workbench covered with turning paraphernalia.

[Gary DeWitt]

You can't pass ANY piece of cut tree on a road or path without wondering what to turn out of it, and what it would look like.

You go through your shop looking for tools or gadgets you haven't used in a long time, deciding which ones to sell to raise money for your next gadget that will for sure help you in some way, but that just gets used once if at all and disappears under the sawdust until...(start reading this paragraph again at the top).

You peruse Craig's list, Ebay, Recycler, and your local paper daily looking for that truly incredible old iron, a lathe worth restoring.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Way to go Roy. Welcome to the dark side. :eek:

[John Miliunas]

When you walk into Woodcraft to get some drawer slides and walk out with a new bowl gouge instead! :rolleyes: :) :cool:

[Jim Becker]

When you walk into Woodcraft to get some drawer slides and walk out with a new bowl gouge instead!

You mean you can't turn drawer slides, John?? Sheesh! What's this world coming to???? :eek:

[John Miliunas]

You mean you can't turn drawer slides, John?? Sheesh! What's this world coming to???? :eek:

Ahhhh...What the heck! Drawer slides are boring. A new bowl gouge is fun!!! :D :cool:

[Keith Christopher]

When you think about how you can glue up all your milled lumber into segments for bowls.



Keith

[Ernie Nyvall]

And the thing is... it's all the above. Pitiful ... pi...ti...ful.

Ernie

[Dennis Peacock]

Ahhhh...What the heck! Drawer slides are boring. A new bowl gouge is fun!!! :D :cool:

Now ya tawkin' John!!!!!! :D

[Dennis Peacock]

You know your a turner when you have multiple lathes in your shop and try to talk your other ww buddies in to buying them a lathe!!!!!

[Stu Ablett in Tokyo Japan]

You know you are a wood turner when.....

You are walking down the street, you see something cool, and go home, get your camera, then take some pics of a VERY nice looking burl.........

http://www.ablett.jp/workshop/images/turnings/big_burl1.jpg

http://www.ablett.jp/workshop/images/turnings/big_burl2.jpg

On a Japanese Cherry Tree (Sakura) and then post it on the turner's website.... :D

These trees are on the edge of some land that the city bought up, it will be used to make a road on day, and let me tell you, when that day comes, you know where I'll be with my chain saw!!

Oh yeah!

Nice or what?

About 18" x 16" or so....

Cheers!

[Bob Noles]

Oh Oh.... here goes Stu and his chainsaw again :eek: :eek: :eek:

[Rob Bourgeois]

You get slapped by your wife when she thinks you are slowing dow to look at the young women cutting grass when really you are looking at her neighbor who is cutting up a downed tree.

[Andy Hoyt]

When this is your favorite thread.

[John Hart]

Japan is in serious trouble. Years from now, the stories will begin with, "It all started in this Liquor Store...."

[Jerry Olexa]

When your dream job is riding shotgun on a tree service truck.

[Glenn Hodges]

When your wife says, when you start to leave the house, you better back up I think you forgot your chainsaw.

When you go on vacation and take pictures of trees with burls and send them to your buddies you have never met on SMC.

[Stu Ablett in Tokyo Japan]

Well people, you have to admit, that is one fine looking Burl....no? :D

[John Miliunas]

Well people, you have to admit, that is one fine looking Burl....no? :D

Well, if you're lookin' for an argument from me, you ain't gonna' get one!:D :cool:

[Bob Noles]

Yeah.... what John said..... Me either :D

[Dennis Peacock]

Send ME that Burl!!!!!! I'll let you know how it comes out. ;) :rolleyes: :D

[Andy Hoyt]

Hmmmmmmmmmm. I know just the place to send it.

And it aint in Maine.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

[Frank Chaffee]

Well people, you have to admit, that is one fine looking Burl....no? :D
OK Stu, I’m game.

That is the ugliest most useless piece of wood burl I have ever seen!

Why that thing is soo bad, that nobody, but nobody but a turner would be anything other than repulsed by it.

Sure am looking forward to seeing what you turn it into, tho.

Frank

[Pat Salter]

your wife makes you strip on the back porch and she's not in the mood.

[Cody Colston]

When you start looking at the coffee table wondering how many segmented bowls you could get from it. :)

[Jim Dunn]

When you spend all day in the shop re-arranging it for the lathe. Then push the table saw in the corner.

[Harry Pye]

When the lint filter in the washing machine is full of wood chips.

[Stu Ablett in Tokyo Japan]

You go to the home center and dig through a stack of 45 lb bags of sand looking for "dry ones" to use as ballast for your so to be had lathe :D

[Jeff Sudmeier]

All of your tools are covered in wood shavings, there are wood shavings in the rafters, there are wood shavings 25 feet from the lathe... ahhhh :)

[Andy Hoyt]

When your name is ______________?

[Mike Ramsey]

When you're waiting for the "BOMB"
to go off!!!!!

[John Miliunas]

When "the" bomb goes off and the only thing left standing is a lathe!:D :cool:

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Plfftsstt!

[Travis Stinson]

"Ken............Ken.............Ken.........Ken!"

[Mark Cothren]

Women and children first! The warning sirens are blowing! Somebody better find some cover quick before it hits!

[Bob Noles]

Plfftsstt!

You are one brave rascal, Ken!

I'm not about to share my foxhole with you :eek:

[Keith Burns]

Women and children first!

Forget the women and children....Save your LATHE !!!!!!!

[Jean Holland]

You know you're a turner when the plan for the smaller garage at your new smaller (temporary) home is designed around your lathe.

I sure hope I'm safe from the fall out here in Indiana.....how many miles is that from 'ground zero'?

[Andy Hoyt]

Jean - You're 1,617.88 miles away. You're too close!

Run Jean Run!

[Andy Hoyt]

When your name is ______________?

When your name is: Ken Fitzgerald, world class good guy!

[Ken Fitzgerald]

UNCLE!.................Andy..................Thank s!.........It's not the lottery......but good friends are even more valuable! Thanks one and all!

[John Miliunas]

UNCLE!.................Andy..................Thank s!.........It's not the lottery......but good friends are even more valuable! Thanks one and all!

Hmmmm...Uncle Andy! Hey, that's got a nice ring to it! :D :cool:

[Stu Ablett in Tokyo Japan]

How about......

You have 5 bowl blanks and 14 pen blanks, plus a few more waiting in the wings, and you don't even have your lathe yet..... :eek:

http://ablett.jp/workshop/images/round/blanks.jpg
(http://www.sawmillcreek.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=30941&stc=1&d=1138816349)

[John Miliunas]

How about......

You have 5 bowl blanks and 14 pen blanks, plus a few more waiting in the wings, and you don't even have your lathe yet..... :eek:

http://ablett.jp/workshop/images/round/blanks.jpg
(http://www.sawmillcreek.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=30941&stc=1&d=1138816349)

...a turner when you see a post like this and thoughts of thievery enter your head!:eek: (Hmmmm...now what's the cheapest way to get across the "pond"????:D ):cool:

[Bob Noles]

you live on anticipation like Stu :D

[Andy Hoyt]

One of my all-time favorite threads and felt like bumping it back up for a fun trip down memory lane.

.... when you keep your longest-curl-yet on a hook nearby so you can reminisce about the good old days.

[John Miliunas]

....when you see a thread like this resurface and go back and read all the responses again!!!:D :cool:

[Bob Noles]

I had no idea when I started this thread, just how much fun it was going to be. Was just bored at the moment and thought I'd spew a few silly words into the creek, wasn't even looking for a reply :eek:

So Andy.... you are saving curls? Sounds like bomb building material to me :D

[David Fried]

... when you'll even read posts by Andy Hoyt !:eek: :D


Dave Fried

[Andy Hoyt]

I had no idea when I started this thread, just how much fun it was going to be. Was just bored at the moment and thought I'd spew a few silly words into the creek, wasn't even looking for a reply :eek:

So Andy.... you are saving curls? Sounds like bomb building material to me :D Yup. Once they're dried out, I grind 'em up, saute over a low flame, add a little tabasco sauce, and voila! Goes great with a nice merlot. Thirty minutes later - the Bomb!


... when you'll even read posts by Andy Hoyt !:eek: :D Dave Fried Deperate measures for desperate times!


....when you see a thread like this resurface and go back and read all the responses again!!!:D :cool: Yup - that's exactly what I did.

[Robert Mickley]

you drive over an hour just to get bowl blanks :D :D
and shoot the breeze

[Ken Fitzgerald]

When your wife wants to talk to each of the individuals responsible for "The Bomb" and she's got this evil gleam in her eye.....

[Christopher K. Hartley]

When You Clean Up With A Snow Shovel!

Oh no, I must be one!:eek: True Story -- Moved From Denver to Houston 15 years ago. Had bought a new snow shovel before leaving Denver and used it only twice. It has hung in the garage here in Houston for the last 15 years inspite of my wife telling me I should get rid of it. The second week I had my lathe I had enough wood shavings on the floor that I pulled it down. It is now my "Lace Shovel" ...I know, no pic...it never happened right? Here it is.

My contribution: When you stand on the corner with a cardboard sign that says: "Will work for Wood!"

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Sorry Chris....John Hart's been doing that for years!:eek: :D

[Paul Downes]

wood chips in the house, wood chips in the laundry, wood chips in yer socks, bowl blanks piled all over the place. I got 2 fire wood piles. One of regular wood and one of, maybe, just maybe..........My house looks like a bowl blank junk yard to the undiscriminating eye.

[Christopher K. Hartley]

Sorry Chris....John Hart's been doing that for years!:eek: :D

Which, holding a sign or using a snow shovel?:D

[Ken Fitzgerald]

John's been begging for wood....with the sign .......without the sign....I've heard rumors that he's had his kids involved for sympathy bowl stumpage....I think that's why he's headed to horsey land.....the kids are now blackmailing him......:eek: :D

[Barry Stratton]

..............you disappear in the bathroom for hours when the newest turners catalog arrives in the mail........

[Philip Duffy]

You blow your nose and the stuff that comes out is black and chunky and should have been left in the garage - - had you worn the expensive dust mask you bought and did not put on!

[Philip Duffy]

You blow your nose and the stuff that comes out is black and chunky and should have been left in the shop- - -had you put on that expensive dusk mask that is trying to save your lungs, if you let it!

[Gary Max]

Last year I had to make the choice of buying a new lathe or a better vehicle.
We really needed a better van to get around in---ours has had a check engine light on for two years now.
Guess which one we bought.
Plus with the price of gas who needs to go anywhere.

[John Hart]

When you spend the whole day on the road...come home dead tired....take one look at your Easy Chair....Then run to the shop, mount up a 10 pound blank and turn a bowl for the next four hours!!:)

[Don Orr]

When you have your wife trained to spot burls in trees along the highway and then she yells at you to stay on the road as you try to see what she was pointing at.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Every pair of jeans you own have curlies in the pockets and they were just washed and dried!

[Curt Fuller]

When everyone drives in the local Green Waste dump with a pickup load of wood to dump. You drive in empty and leave with a pickup load of "turnin' wood".

[Don Baer]

When you sit next to your new lathe wishing you hadn't lext your turning tools 350 miles away.:(

[Steve Ash]

....you're a flatlander, but you begin to hang out in the turners forum more and more.......

[Ken Fitzgerald]

And your name is Steve Ash......and you have the gall ......to ....1) borrow somebody's lathe to make your first turning.....2) Enter that first turning in a "goblet" contest......3) Start searching for a lathe!.........We got him folks........We can move on to others!


You might want to check out Steve's entry in the Goblet contest .....It's excellent! and a 1st turning too, I might add!

[Lee DeRaud]

...you keep your lumber in a "bin" instead of a "rack".

[Mark Patoka]

When you have your wife trained to spot burls in trees along the highway and then she yells at you to stay on the road as you try to see what she was pointing at.

My wife will be happy to know she's not alone!:)

[Don Baer]

You look at the crow bar on your sons workbench and wonder if you can regrind it to make a gouge cause your turning tools are 350 miles away..:confused:

[Andy Hoyt]

So, Don. You know how deep the abyss is. But just how far away is that Arizona store? Think of it this way - you'll have an extra gouge, extra skew, etc

[Don Baer]

So, Don. You know how deep the abyss is. But just how far away is that Arizona store? Think of it this way - you'll have an extra gouge, extra skew, etc

Don't think I haven't thought about it. I even stopped in there during lunch yesterday..;)

But I'll be home friday night so rather then have SWMBO give me that look :eek: I decided that I could wait.

[Bob Noles]

Don't think I haven't thought about it. I even stopped in there during lunch yesterday..;)

But I'll be home friday night so rather then have SWMBO give me that look :eek: I decided that I could wait.


Oh yeah..... that "look" we are all too familiar with that "look" :D :D :eek:

You deffinately know you a turner when you get that "look" :rolleyes: :p :D

[Steve Ash]

...your son buys new property to build and you tell him which trees he should thin.....(which happen to be desirable for turning) that you otherwise would tell him would make good shade trees.:eek:

[Jim Bell]

At 3 am Christmas morning you will still be in the shop "just a few more minutes"
Jim

[Stu Ablett in Tokyo Japan]

You have been sick with a really crappy head cold for two days, you can barely stand or walk enough to go to the head, you are running a fever and have been taking pills by the handful, you are buying stock in Kleenex, but, you figure you could just slip away down to the dungeon to turn that bowl that you boiled over a week ago............ :D

[Jim Davenport]

Oh yeah..... that "look" we are all too familiar with that "look" :D :D :eek:

You deffinately know you a turner when you get that "look" :rolleyes: :p :D
Truer words were never spoken!!!!:D

[Andy Hoyt]

I've bumped this thread before and thought, what the heck, one more time wouldn't hurt.

Afterall, we're about to abysserate someone new into the club.

[John Miliunas]

....if you know that the "bomb", "abyss", "vortex" and "spinny thing" all really mean the same thing!!! :D :cool:

[Barry Stratton]

.....you check into SMC daily after having hand surgery and type responses with a pencil in between your teeth.......:D :D

[Lee DeRaud]

.....you check into SMC daily after having hand surgery and type responses with a pencil in between your teeth.......:D :D...and you make fewer typos than when you were using both hands...:D :D

[Henry C. Gernhardt, III]

...You can't stop handling that first bowl/box/goblet/bonker/pen, and LOYL berates you for it.

[Scott Donley]

Your eating Bologna sandwiches for dinner instead of steak :(

[Chris Barton]

...you'er are a regular on the turning forum at SMC.

[John Miliunas]

.....you check into SMC daily after having hand surgery and type responses with a pencil in between your teeth.......:D :D

....and you don't stop w/typing 'cuz, you just can't stand watching everyone else having all the fun!!! :eek: :D :cool:

[Ken Fitzgerald]

....and you don't stop w/typing 'cuz, you just can't stand watching everyone else having all the fun!!! :eek: :D :cool:

John....Hope you don't mind....I sending this photo to your surgeon!:eek: :D


Seriously...I hope you're healing well!

[John Miliunas]

John....Hope you don't mind....I sending this photo to your surgeon!:eek: :D


Seriously...I hope you're healing well!

Hah!!! He's on vacation!:p :D :cool:

[Tom Sherman]

'Hah!!! He's on vacation!'

Yeah John and you have financed it right.

[John Miliunas]

'Hah!!! He's on vacation!'

Yeah John and you have financed it right.

Got that right, Tom! Between last year's surgery and this one, he'll be able to afford the high-class Moxie with his dinners at whatever resort he's at! :D :cool:

[Ned Bulken]

when your freinds' have a couple of trees cut down, and you ask them to save you the burls. Then when they don't, you're upset with them for two weeks.

[Ned Bulken]

....you're a flatlander, but you begin to hang out in the turners forum more and more.......

Amen Brother!

[Andy Hoyt]

You couldn't care less about what this guy is saying

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[Scott Donley]

And I thought I had to much free time on my hands :D :D :D

[Don Fuss]

When you've been dragging out a simple flatwork project for the LOYL for 5 months but manage to find plenty of time to turn several bowls, platters, hollow forms, and pens.

[Bill Boehme]

........ you go on vacation and your favorite picture from the whole trip is ....

[Mark Pruitt]

when you won't finish building your workbench because you can't figure out how to turn it......

[CORY FETZER]

when you use mapquest to find woodworking stores that specialize in lathes and turning equipment

[Mike Jory]

Doing chores in the back yard and hear a chain saw startup in the neighborhood. You drop what you're doing and go investigate. (just happened yesterday)

When you go visit your daughter in another town and your wife sees a log lying in the back yard and says "Good thing we brought the truck"

[Jim Underwood]

You finally have the chance to take a trip to the beach with your wife, without kids, for the first time in 20 years, and you're still picking up wood for turning off the beach.... (Just one more chunk ok?... please?);)

[Bart Leetch]

When you look at all the fancy lathes & say I have a welder & if I had a VFD & a 3 phase motor & a Shaft for a lathe with a #2 morse taper & bearings I could make just what I need & want soooo much less expensive than $2000

[Mark Pruitt]

When looking to buy a house, the one and only criterion you give your agent is that it MUST have adequate space for a great woodworking shop!:D

[Nancy Laird]

When looking to buy a house, the one and only criterion you give your agent is that it MUST have adequate space for a great woodworking shop!:D

Which is EXACTLY why LOML and I bought this house - the house was pretty crappy 13 years ago, but there was a detached 3-car garage behind it that is now our woodshop (we had to add another building for the lasers!) Realtor pulled up in front of the house, spouse gave a quick glance to the house and took off down the driveway to check out the "garage." To look at it now, you'd never know it was a garage--no overhead doors left.

[TYLER WOOD]

This was too good not to bump and let people read again!

You look at a tree and no longer see the beauty the tree provides nature, but see the beauty it will possess in the form of a bowl, platter, goblet and such!

[Kaptan J.W. Meek]

You have your employees "rearrange" and clean-up the firewood pile so that the larger pieces of mesquite are on top. Then during the night, they magically dissapear!!

[Bill Wyko]

When you look at trees like a pair of long legs.:eek:

[Matt Haus]

When you have no more places that can be mulched.

[Bill Wyko]

You know you're a segmented turner when you have boxes of liiitttllle pieces of wood you just know you're gonna use someday.:cool:

[Jude Kingery]

When you ask your husband to stop along the side of the road where they're clear cutting Mesquite and he says oh no, not again, we have plenty! Jude

[Bernie Weishapl]

When you sit out on the back patio have a cold one and at the same time counting how many bowls, vases, HF's, lidded boxes and pens that tree would make.

[JOHN VITOSKY]

You are walking along and randomly see something (could be square or a car) and you think to yourself or tell whomever you are with "I could turn that".

[Gary Herrmann]

When you take the family to the botanical gardens and your 6 yr old loudly asks in front of 20 or 30 people which trees you'd cut down first.

[Bill Wyko]

You know you're a turner when you sit in your office and read stuff on SMC all day and when someone comes in your office you pop up a screen from a vendor you deal with. (No similarities to me intended what so ever:rolleyes: ;) :D )

[Paul Zerjay]

you have more than one tree trimming service that regularly drop off logs at your place, and one actually pays you to do it.

[Bonnie Campbell]

You get more excited getting a box of wood than jewelry :D

[mark page]

Just called LOML in to read some of these statements. I started off the subject by saying "you know your a turner when" and then she finished by stating "opening every can of veggies in the pantry just to watch the can spin". (I don't have a lathe yet, but gonna have).

[Mark Norman]

When ya just gotta build the bigest lathe possible because yer staring at 36" oak trees with a gleem in yer eye?

[alex carey]

When your with your friends somewhere and you see a tree with a big burl, and suddenly your completely distracted, the rest of the night your pondering how you can get it in the middle of the night with a chainsaw.

[Paul Atkins]

When you're mad at your friend for giving you a bunch of free wood because he says " I saved the nice straight stuff for you and burned the twisted and rotten stuff".

[Nathan Hawkes]

When you have to explain to your coworkers and patients at the hospital that your hands really are clean, your skin is just stained black with tannic acids from the wood you've been turning....

[Jeff Nicol]

The garage/shop is more of a home to you than your house, and the cars sit outside and are replaced with 3 lathes and lots of WOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Burt Alcantara]

When the laundry room becomes the blanks room, when the pantry becomes the blanks room II, when the entire basement becomes over run with blanks aka, the master blanks room, when there are more logs in the backyard then grass, when you approach a tree trimmer and they say, " oh, I remember you, you're that guy who..."

[Larry Marley]

When you sit down with the morning coffee in front of the computer and hit the link to the turners forum on SMC.

[Mike Minto]

you simply throw away your socks after a session at the lathe, knowing your wife won't put up with any more wood shavings in the washing machine. mike

[Rick Prosser]

When you sit down with the morning coffee in front of the computer and hit the link to the turners forum on SMC.

...and again at lunch

...and supper

...and right before bed

[jason lambert]

When you hope trees have cancer so they grow burls and if they don't you try poking them to get them to have a cancer and grow burls!

[jason lambert]

When your out on a date and all you think about is I rathor be turning!

[Joshua Dinerstein]

When you are looking at new homes with your wife and see just the perfect tree in the back yard. Perfect for shade and the view and your wife loves it where it is... and you meant perfect for bowls, platters, boxes etc...

Happened about 3 weeks ago. We are now under contract on the house and I was told in no uncertain terms the tree stays where it is. *sigh*

Joshua

[Reid Strand]

when you decide to turn your own toothpicks for the toothpick holder you just made?

[Larry Marley]

when you decide to turn your own toothpicks for the toothpick holder you just made?

That is funny!

[Jack Mincey]

When you wife wants to drive everywhere, because you spend as much time scanning the tree's along the trip for burls as you do watching the road. Heck my 6 year old son even watches for burls now.
Jack

[Richard Madison]

When you just read this whole damn thread from the beginning!

[John Fricke]

When you play hookie from work to go hunt mushrooms and spend the whole day admiring all the burls in the publcly owned forests that you know you will never have access to. Hard to find them little buggers when your eyes are in the treetops all day.

[Bill Buchanan IN]

When your compost pile is twice the size of your garden.

[Alan Tolchinsky]

When you almost get into a car accident because you're checking out any and all wood you see along the road. Now when I drive it's my wife's job to scan the scenery for bowl material. It's a lot safer with this arrangement.

[jim carter]

when you use your girlfriends pantyhose as a temporary drive belt until you can get a new one.

[alex carey]

Jim Carter are you actually serious because that might be the funniest thing I ever heard.

[Mark Norman]

When you almost get into a car accident because you're checking out any and all wood you see along the road. Now when I drive it's my wife's job to scan the scenery for bowl material. It's a lot safer with this arrangement.
Alan, Let yer wife drive;)

[jim carter]

it works. i had to finish a vase when my belt broke.

[Tony Greenway]

When talking to your turning buddies about crotches takes on a whole different meaning then it did when you where an unskilled teenager:confused::);):eek::D

[Brian Effinger]

Alan, Let yer wife drive;)

That could be just as dangerous, if she drives like my wife. :D

[jim carter]

when you use your girlfriends pantyhose as a temporary drive belt until you can get a new one.

[Tom Henry]

When you have a trail of shavings from the lathe to the computer...:D

[BILL DONAHUE]

You feel so guilty abut sneaking new tools into your shop that you wonder why there isn't a 12 step program for woodturners.

[John Beaver]

When you come home and check the new posts here, before you check your email.

[Ruth Niles]

When you're peeling a beet and go "wow, what beautiful grain!"

Thanks for resurrecting this thread, there are a lot of funny responses. One of my favorite was "you can't see the forest for the bowls"....love it!

Ruth

[Andy Pogue]

Could you please provide details on sneeking tools into shop????

[Larry Marley]

Could you please provide details on sneeking tools into shop????

First you need to practice in front of a mirror saying, "Oh that?, wow, I've had that for a long time..."
The complexity of hiding a new tool varies with it's size. The key is to make it look acclimated. Sawdust, stuff stacked on top of it are good examples. Turning tools can often be brought in to the shop carried in your jacket, or strapped to your leg. Strapping the tool to your leg works better I find, if you are also wearing long pants.
Hope this helps
Larry

[Chris Rae]

When headin' for the creek means grabbing the computer not the fishing pole.

[Thomas Herview]

You carefully examine each piece of firewood before you throw it in the fire.

I had a load of firewood delivered by a couple of retired gentlemen. They were throwing it off and I was supposed to be stacking it up. I heard one of them say to the other; "Oh, gawd, Ken, we have a woodworker here". Ken sais; "Wha?" The other guy sais; "Awe, he's checking out every peice to see what he can make out of it!" :rolleyes:I really was. The wood was maple with a lot of curl and spalt, and cherry with some burl. I guess I was holding up the old fellas from going off to have a beer.:D

[Jason Solodow]

When your mother-in-law stops by your shop because they were cutting trees down at the local golf course, and here's a couple of small pieces of the trees 'just in case it's something you can use'.

When your neighbor calls the cops because she's tired of listening to the chain saw. (oops!)