I hope I didn't miss this one. You know you're a woodturner when you drink your coffee with wood chips in it.
Thought of this when I set my coffee on the head of my PM3520b and took a sip, and got a mouth full. No need to spit it out, just chewed it up and kept going.
That sounds like a keeper Robert.
I've got lots of practice at making firewood!
When there is thunder, lightening, and the power goes out, and you say, "Great news-- a tree just fell and knocked out a power line and I'm going out to look for it," everyone is convinced you're a woidturner.
And you KNOW you're a SEGMENTED BOWLTURNER when you purchase your glue a gallon at a time!
...when you blow your nose and the boogers look like MDF.
Last edited by Russell Neyman; 05-04-2014 at 9:49 PM.
Russell Neyman.
Writer - Woodworker - Historian
Instructor: The Woodturning Experience
Puget Sound, Washington State
"Outside of a dog, there's nothing better than a good book; inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
you might be a woodturner: You send 4-5 hundred for a chainsaw with extra chains, oil,fuel, put them in a 20 thousand $ truck, drive many miles to a storm downed tree, cut off a few pieces of the log.drive back home, seal it, wait 5 or 6 months for it to dry, pull it down off the shelf and call it "free wood". Max
When you don't even have to go out to the shop to end up with shavings in your shorts!
robo hippy
You know you're a woodturner when you've got plastic laminated business cards that you tack to cut trees in people's yards telling them to call you if they'd like a turned piece in exchange for a few logs.
You know you're a woodturner when you've got the local tree services on speed dial.
You know you're a woodturner when the local tree services have YOU on speed dial.
You know you're a woodturner when all the mulch around the trees and planting areas in your yard are multi-colored and you actually know what bowl shavings are around what tree.
.... you know which neighbors' trees to check on after a bad storm.
Thought you guys might enjoy the collection. Add a few and I'll update the essay
https://turnabouts.wordpress.com/201...eff-foxworthy/
Russell Neyman.
Writer - Woodworker - Historian
Instructor: The Woodturning Experience
Puget Sound, Washington State
"Outside of a dog, there's nothing better than a good book; inside of a dog it's too dark to read."