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    Woodworking terms that you have coined

    Many years ago I made kitchen cabinets. Having had the infuriating experience, as you've probably had as well, of reaching into a face frame cabinet and raking the skin off the back of my hand on the sharp inside FF edge, I make sure that my work doesn't cause this.

    I call it friendling the edges i.e. to make friendly.

    What terms have you come up with?

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    I think the TOS prevents me from sharing any that I've come up with....
    Brian

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    Not just woodworking. “You’ve got be smarter than what you’re working with “
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    Squond
    This is mostly used when turning and easing off corners of a square blank until it's neither square or round.
    Bruising
    This is a turning term when you compress the fibers with the heel of the gouge (when making an inside cut mostly) and leave a mark or indentation.
    There are more but as you can tell, I was at the lathe, so this is what popped into my head

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    Not mine and only sounds like it might be wood related - - my brother used to refer to what the dog left in the yard on cold mornings as - steam logs.
    My granddad always said, :As one door closes, another opens".
    Wonderful man, terrible cabinet maker...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Jenkins View Post
    Not just woodworking. “You’ve got be smarter than what you’re working with “
    A foreman I had would say "you should be 2x smarter than the tool your working with". The rest of his sayings are good but not PC.

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    "I'm always a maker; the worst thing that I could be building is firewood."

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    Microsteaming is steaming small parts in the microwave oven.

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    FOR-NI-WOOD-I-CATION
    phoneticly....... for- nee-wood- i- cation
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    An unecpected dramatic reduction in the quality of a woodworking project personified by an idiot using tools.


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