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  1. 09-14-2010, 7:39 PM #1
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    Why I hate turning !

    You spend all the time cutting a bowl blank, sharpening your tools, all the time burning rings near the lip, get a catch and smash a finger while hollowing, find band aids, finish hollowing to 1/8 walls and ready for sanding, discover new crack from the undercut lip extending about 3 inches, your CA is no longer usable and would not work any way as there is not enough wood left to turn away the glue stain
    Come in the house and open a cold one. Think I will go back out and wax the TS and jointer, maybe try out my new planner.
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    You have a lathe, a planer, a table saw, a jointer, and a house that has beer in it. Can things really be that bad? Oh yeah, sorry about your finger!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert McGowen View Post
    You have a lathe, a planer, a table saw, a jointer, and a house that has beer in it. Can things really be that bad? Oh yeah, sorry about your finger!
    Very good point!!!

    And, he has us to sympathize with him .... whereas the rest of the world will just look at him funny when he complains about this!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert McGowen View Post
    You have a lathe, a planer, a table saw, a jointer, and a house that has beer in it. Can things really be that bad? Oh yeah, sorry about your finger!
    Now that you put it that way Think I will just put a steak on the grill and call it a day
    Sometimes we see what we expect to see, and not what we are looking at! Scott
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    And upside is you did get some shop time....
    Things will be better next time.
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    thats it ... I'm quitting

    less than a week in and thats it for me
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    Im sure the omens were apparrent WAY before you went out to turn....
    Check your horoscope, or get a psychic reading..... if it doesn't seem promising, go straight for the beer and stay away from power tools.
    Dude, you know that some days you get the bear..... and some days... well you dont.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert McGowen View Post
    You have a lathe, a planer, a table saw, a jointer, and a house that has beer in it. Can things really be that bad? Oh yeah, sorry about your finger!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Donley View Post
    You spend all the time cutting a bowl blank, sharpening your tools, all the time burning rings near the lip, get a catch and smash a finger while hollowing, find band aids, finish hollowing to 1/8 walls and ready for sanding, discover new crack from the undercut lip extending about 3 inches, your CA is no longer usable and would not work any way as there is not enough wood left to turn away the glue stain...
    Sounds like one of my better days in the shop... Congrats!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert McGowen View Post
    You have a lathe, a planer, a table saw, a jointer, and a house that has beer in it. Can things really be that bad? Oh yeah, sorry about your finger!
    Life is, indeed, good....eh Robert?
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    Unless you loose an apendage, , a bad day in the shop is better than a good day without one!!
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    How much better does it get?
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Robert McGowen
    You have a lathe, a planer, a table saw, a jointer, and a house that has beer in it. Can things really be that bad? Oh yeah, sorry about your finger!



    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Donley View Post
    Now that you put it that way Think I will just put a steak on the grill and call it a day

    Fer cryin' out loud, he's even got STEAK!
    Call me Jim, James seems so stuffy.
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    Looks like he's in it for the long haul, boys & girls.....
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    "Fer cryin' out loud, he's even got STEAK!"

    Thanx. Biting my tongue was starting to hurt...
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