Robert Smith wrote:
I normally just lurk, but I have just got to know. How did you end up with
tools for wedding gifts. All I got was a bunch of fancy plates that I
I got most of the stuff from Dad as part of a "setting up housekeeping" type
package. A drill, hammer, screwdrivers, drill bits, screwdriver bits...
Pretty practical you're a man now stuff. Maybe I got some of it that first
Christmas.
ain't allowed to eat off of. I tried to register at Grizzly, but SWMBO
We got a lot of stuff like that too. I was a foreign language major in my
last semester when I rather abruptly got to learn about EPT, Lamaze, and
trying to support a family on a minimum wage work study job... I got some
very useful towels, the last of which I just consigned to rag detail
recently. Everything else was fancy Euroweird stuff. Linen napkins, fine
china, exotic handmade lace thingies, crystal.
I eat with my elbows on the table, always eat with the longest fork and the
biggest spoon I can find, and I still haven't figured out what I'm supposed
to do with the exotic handmade lace thingies. I think the exotic china and
crystal are in the cabinet over the fridge. I haven't opened it since we
moved into this house six years ago.
We don't have a lot of company, and the company we do have doesn't know what
to do with the exotic handmade lace thingies either.
I've found the crystal is pretty solid. It doesn't tip over easily, so they
make *great* containers for holding brush dipping water for doing
watercolors. Wickford? Weckford? Wedgewood? Good for cracking nuts into
too.
shot that idea down. In fact she shot that down before she was even in
office yet. The only good thing about them plates is that I had to build a
cabinet to put them in. So of course I had to get some more clamps and
some other tools.
Me too. Not *those* plates, but some other ones. The *good* stuff is
buried in dust somewhere. The not-so-good stuff got me the router table I
think, and a bunch of pipe clamps for sure. I built a hutch to mount onto
a dresser so we could display those plates. They have since been relegated
to some other forgotten corner to make way for SWMBO's Barbie collection.
All in all, we probably have four or five sets of plates, and we eat off the
stuff my wife got in college.
in the process of building projects. I now have a fairly complete shop,
just by convincing SWMBO that she needed something that I didn't have the
correct tool to make.
Me too. I've also used other tactics. As a recent example, I wanted to get
into hand planes. SWMBO balked at the price of all the stuff I needed to
buy to get started, so I took her out to Lowe's and showed her how much it
costs to buy a cheap benchtop planer and jointer. That shut her up real
quick like.
door. So I just assumed that I could steam wood with no trouble. Boy was I
wrong. I didn't consider all the factors involved. Between the wood type,
I can imagine. I haven't tried anything that large-scale or purposeful, but
I've played with bending popsicle sticks for some reason or other. It's a
real PITA just bending one of those little things without breaking it.
Wood bending people are half mad I think.
Oops, I really wandered off topic. if you're interested in the trials
and tribulation of learning to bend wood with no help. let me know and
I'll start a new thread. Although I like to think of myself as and expert,
I am still wise enough to know I'm not really that smart, just to stupid
to give up.
Go for it! SWMBO does the craft show thing, and she uses a lot of Chiwanese
baskets. I've been thinking for years I could make something better.
Maybe you can talk me out of even thinking about trying, or talk me into a
new tool. Whichever.
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