Makes you look good Malcolm. Oh you were talking about the apron, missed that entirely.
Jim
Jim,
I ain't one of those either. My problem is I forget I'm wearing the new shirt MsBubba just gave me with the usual results followed by many "Yes dears" and usually some lame excuse like I just walked out to the shop to turn the lights off and I don't know how it happened. Of course that is followed by the skank eye.
The worst offender is when sharpening I can't help but clean the iron on my belly just before taking a good look at the edge. No telling how many shirts were ruined before I started using an leather apron.
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Still looking for an extra long full length shop/lab coat. I have an apron, but that doesn't keep my sleeves clean when running power tools, even when using a DC.
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No. Having previously been that approximate size of a Winnebago at one time it was impossible to find one that fit and consequently I just didn't bother. I've considered it a time or two but is just seems like something else to potentially get in the way or get caught in a spinning blade. I don't recall any of the various YouTubers that I watch wearing an apron on a consistent basis. In fact, the only one that come to mind is Greg Paolini.
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Sometimes....
Your endgrain is like your bellybutton. Yes, I know you have it. No, I don't want to see it.
I do!
Mainly because I often rush to the shop straight coming home from the office. I damaged a fair amount of quality shirts before to buy an apron.
It is simple and light and I never felt the need to carry anything in the pocket.
I do have the luxury to own two of them, a light one bought from Dictum, with a little plane on it and a thicker one with my family champagne logo for winter times!
This is definately working for me.
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Would have worn mine today....but,it seems to be in the Laundry area....was getting a might "gamey"......
I have a leather apron given to me as a gift years ago. I seem to forget to wear it more often than I remember it and it's even hanging up near the shop door. As a couple other folk have mentioned, I started out as a carpenter moving from work site to site so I grew accustomed to just wearing "work clothes" and then nicer clothes when I wasn't working. Typically these days, roughly 3/4 of my day to day clothing could be classified as "work clothes" that already have glue, paint, oil, what-have-you on them...
I do like the concept of wearing an apron for sharpening and "messy" work ...maybe this thread will (re)inspire me to put it on more often...
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I only wear an apron while using my lathe, which is mercifully infrequent. I find aprons heavy and uncomfortable.
I have one I wear when painting something.
I want to wear an apron all the time in the shop, really I do! However, I just cannot be comfortable in one, mostly because I get too hot. I do wear one when gluing up or applying a finish to a project.
I'm agreed with Mr. Koepke!
I have not an apron. Of course I can buy it, but here, in Ukraine, you could look beetwen aprons for coffemakers (barista), aprons for welders made from tarpaulin (hard canvas cloth). I wear overalls - right now, winter time, or (I've gratuated in 1994 - so I saw USSR in all things) in the "Trousers of potential Enemy" (this is phrase of my Teacher from military school in my University) - n Jeans!
OMG! Yes! In 1979, I had just finished my carpenter apprenticeship but then got the rare chance to get into the Caterpillar pattern shop. I was one of 2 apprentices in a 50 man wood shop. Everybody wore WHITE aprons. NO LOWER POCKETS! You did keep the upper ones for a scale and hard lead pencil. The old guys (one journeyman had been there 45 years) came in with white shirts and bow ties! I had 2 or 3 aprons. You changed out when they started to look less than fresh. Thanks for the flashback!
Just ran mine through the washing machine, last night....was getting a might....nasty. Will have it on, later, today...