I have a new 3 month old daughter and when I find an hour or so here
and there I like to do some woodworking. I am still pretty new to the
game but really enjoy it.
What I need is a new technique which is quiet so as not to disturb the
baby and the wife. Normally I work with power tools, so I thought
about working with hand tools. Saws are OK but banging on a chisel is
out.
I am thinking about woodturning. Any tips on getting started? Any
tips for alternative quiet woodworking? Thanks.
Doug

Doug wrote:

Normally I work with power tools, so I thought
about working with hand tools. Saws are OK but banging on a chisel is
out.


Try using your chisels to pare the wood. Hand planes are quiet.
Hammering chisels is over rated.


Paring isn't easy? Work on your sharpening technique, which is also a
quiet activity.

Barry

Mon, Jan 17, 2005, 5:25am (EST-3) (Doug) claims:
snip What I need is a new technique which is quiet so as not to
disturb the baby and the wife. Normally I work with power tools, so I
thought about working with hand tools. Saws are OK but banging on a
chisel is out. snip

Major mistake.

You tiptoe around the kid, then every little noise is gonna wake
her up. Granted, you don't want to crank up a really loud tool when she
is asleep, but "normal tools", don't worry about, including banging on
chisels. May wake the kid up the first time or so, but in no time
she'll be sleeping thru it all.

We were finishing the inside of your home just after the second son
was born. Drywall, hammering, all that. Finished the back bedroom off
first, including carpet. Lay the kid on the floor, wait a couple of
minutes, then go out and start pounding. No prob. You obviously
wouldn't want to pound on somehting right next the kid's ear, but don't
worry about being overly quiet. We learned with the first kid, any
little noise would wake him up. Not fun.



JOAT
Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.
- =A0Dale Carnegie

Scroll sawing.... chip carving (could even do this in the house)

"Doug" wrote in message
oups.com...
I have a new 3 month old daughter and when I find an hour or so here
and there I like to do some woodworking. I am still pretty new to the
game but really enjoy it.
What I need is a new technique which is quiet so as not to disturb the
baby and the wife. Normally I work with power tools, so I thought
about working with hand tools. Saws are OK but banging on a chisel is
out.
I am thinking about woodturning. Any tips on getting started? Any
tips for alternative quiet woodworking? Thanks.
Doug

On 17 Jan 2005 05:25:54 -0800, "Doug" wrote:

I have a new 3 month old daughter and when I find an hour or so here
and there I like to do some woodworking. I am still pretty new to the
game but really enjoy it.
What I need is a new technique which is quiet so as not to disturb the
baby and the wife. Normally I work with power tools, so I thought
about working with hand tools. Saws are OK but banging on a chisel is
out.
I am thinking about woodturning. Any tips on getting started? Any
tips for alternative quiet woodworking? Thanks.

This is another troll.

Babies sleep through thunderstorms. Stop tip-toeing. They get used
to noise faster than you do. Besides, you don't keep the baby in the
workshop.

Take up knitting instead, but be sure to wrap the needles in something
soft [another large discussion on what is best to use] so that the
clicking doesn't keep the baby awake.

"Doug" wrote in message
oups.com...
I have a new 3 month old daughter and when I find an hour or so here
and there I like to do some woodworking. I am still pretty new to the
game but really enjoy it.
Doug

If you do woodworking now, the baby will get used to the sound and not wake
up. Ask the people that live in high traffic areas and most will tell you
they never hear a sound. I lived for a few years at a very busy intersection
with a trolley on the street and big trucks going over the trolley tracks.

If you are making that much noise banging on a chisel, you are doing
something very wrong.

You can do anything you want. This is why they make hearing protection.
Either you wear it so you can't hear the baby crying or your wife screaming
or put a set on the little one so she can't hear you. Geez, this was an
easy one!

--
Jeff P.

"A ship carrying blue paint collided with a ship carrying red paint. The
crew are believed to be marooned."

Check out my woodshop at: www.sawdustcentral.com


"Doug" wrote in message
oups.com...
I have a new 3 month old daughter and when I find an hour or so here
and there I like to do some woodworking. I am still pretty new to the
game but really enjoy it.
What I need is a new technique which is quiet so as not to disturb the
baby and the wife. Normally I work with power tools, so I thought
about working with hand tools. Saws are OK but banging on a chisel is
out.
I am thinking about woodturning. Any tips on getting started? Any
tips for alternative quiet woodworking? Thanks.
Doug

In article ,
says...
On 17 Jan 2005 05:25:54 -0800, "Doug" wrote:

I have a new 3 month old daughter

snip tale of silence and new-parent worry

Any tips for alternative quiet woodworking? Thanks.

This is another troll.

Not sure if this is a troll or not- but on the off-chance it's legit...

Babies sleep through thunderstorms. Stop tip-toeing. They get used
to noise faster than you do. Besides, you don't keep the baby in the
workshop.

Too right. The little darlings can sleep thru anything if you let them.
You probably don't want to run the really loud shrill stuff in the same
room or directly under the crib, not for the wake-up factor but it's as
bad for baby ears as it is for YOUR ears.

My son's first sitter is a sculptor- ceramics, wood, metal... They spent
countless hours in the shop- noise from work, other kids, dogs, city
street sounds... my son learned the valuable lesson of being able to
sleep thru anything at anytime.

Now if you're just looking for an excuse to get a lathe... that's
another story. I'm not sure there isn't a special level of hell reserved
for silly tool-purchase excuses.

On 17 Jan 2005 05:25:54 -0800, "Doug" wrote:

What I need is a new technique which is quiet so as not to disturb the
baby and the wife.

Quietest I know is green woodworking (shave horse, drawknife,
spokeshave). This has its noisy bits when you're splitting logs, but
most of it is almost silent. Needs some space though and makes a mess
of shavings everywhere - it's a good one for outdoors. if you have a
lathe it can involve some simple woodturning. It's also cheap and can
make useful furniture with little effort.

--
Smert' spamionam

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:37:33 -0500, Guess who
wrote:

Babies sleep through thunderstorms. Stop tip-toeing. They get used
to noise faster than you do.

Sure, _they_ do.

But if the sprog is finally asleep, then _you_ want some peace and
quiet too.

--
Smert' spamionam

We have done the same thing. My wife and I watch our dvds with my home
theater after the kids go to bed. They sleep right through it. Problem
is now my daughter can't sleep without some kinda noise. She asks us to
"turn the volume up" every night cause otherwise it's too quiet. Trojan
Horse!

On 17 Jan 2005 05:25:54 -0800, "Doug" wrote:

I have a new 3 month old daughter and when I find an hour or so here
and there I like to do some woodworking. I am still pretty new to the
game but really enjoy it.
What I need is a new technique which is quiet so as not to disturb the
baby and the wife. Normally I work with power tools, so I thought
about working with hand tools. Saws are OK but banging on a chisel is
out.
I am thinking about woodturning. Any tips on getting started? Any
tips for alternative quiet woodworking? Thanks.
Doug

just a word of advise from LONG experience:
Work at a level that your wife doesn't mind... get the baby used to
normal noise..

believe it or not, the lil princess will NOT mind the sound of your
saw or jointer and will do better with household noise later because
you ran that saw..


mac

Please remove splinters before emailing

Sage advise

Dave


"J T" wrote in message
...
Mon, Jan 17, 2005, 5:25am (EST-3) (Doug) claims:
snip What I need is a new technique which is quiet so as not to
disturb the baby and the wife. Normally I work with power tools, so I
thought about working with hand tools. Saws are OK but banging on a
chisel is out. snip

Major mistake.

You tiptoe around the kid, then every little noise is gonna wake
her up. Granted, you don't want to crank up a really loud tool when she
is asleep, but "normal tools", don't worry about, including banging on
chisels. May wake the kid up the first time or so, but in no time
she'll be sleeping thru it all.

We were finishing the inside of your home just after the second son
was born. Drywall, hammering, all that. Finished the back bedroom off
first, including carpet. Lay the kid on the floor, wait a couple of
minutes, then go out and start pounding. No prob. You obviously
wouldn't want to pound on somehting right next the kid's ear, but don't
worry about being overly quiet. We learned with the first kid, any
little noise would wake him up. Not fun.



JOAT
Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie

"Doug" wrote in news:1105968354.938216.178440
@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:

I have a new 3 month old daughter and when I find an hour or so here
and there I like to do some woodworking. I am still pretty new to the
game but really enjoy it.
What I need is a new technique which is quiet so as not to disturb the
baby and the wife. Normally I work with power tools, so I thought
about working with hand tools. Saws are OK but banging on a chisel is
out.
I am thinking about woodturning. Any tips on getting started? Any
tips for alternative quiet woodworking? Thanks.
Doug

I have a 6 year old son and a 3 year old daughter. I took up woodworking
when my daughter was about 6-9 months old.

I use machines for all the stock prep, but hand tools for most of the
joinery. My first workbench was lousy 3/4" MDF -- reverberated like a drum
when I pounded on it. Since, I built a stout beech workbench and now the
sound of chisels doesn't carry upstairs appreciably. At night I do
joinery, scraping, assembly, and finishing.

My favorite projects are the things I've built for and with my kids.

When I was little one of my favourtie sounds (and it would always put me to
sleep) was the sound of the vacumn cleaner.
"TeamCasa" wrote in message
...
Sage advise

Dave


"J T" wrote in message
...
Mon, Jan 17, 2005, 5:25am (EST-3) (Doug) claims:
snip What I need is a new technique which is quiet so as not to
disturb the baby and the wife. Normally I work with power tools, so I
thought about working with hand tools. Saws are OK but banging on a
chisel is out. snip

Major mistake.

You tiptoe around the kid, then every little noise is gonna wake
her up. Granted, you don't want to crank up a really loud tool when she
is asleep, but "normal tools", don't worry about, including banging on
chisels. May wake the kid up the first time or so, but in no time
she'll be sleeping thru it all.

We were finishing the inside of your home just after the second son
was born. Drywall, hammering, all that. Finished the back bedroom off
first, including carpet. Lay the kid on the floor, wait a couple of
minutes, then go out and start pounding. No prob. You obviously
wouldn't want to pound on somehting right next the kid's ear, but don't
worry about being overly quiet. We learned with the first kid, any
little noise would wake him up. Not fun.



JOAT
Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie

"Doug Brown" wrote in message
When I was little one of my favourtie sounds (and it would always put me
to
sleep) was the sound of the vacumn cleaner.

And now that you're older, I bet the thought of using the vacuum cleaner
still puts you to sleep.

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:44:14 -0600, Doug Brown wrote:

When I was little one of my favourtie sounds (and it would always put me
to sleep) was the sound of the vacumn cleaner. "TeamCasa"

When my son was 2 or 3 years old - about 25 years ago - I used to put him
on my lap while mowing the acre on a noisy Craftsman riding mower.
He'd fall asleep after about 3 minutes.

- Doug

--

To escape criticism--do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard)

We were finishing the inside of your home just after the second son
was born......



See that, Doug? JOAT was working on your house and you didn't even know it.
The baby won't hear a thing.

B.

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:44:14 -0600, "Doug Brown"
wrote:

When I was little one of my favourtie sounds (and it would always put me to
sleep) was the sound of the vacumn cleaner.

that kind of sucks...
*groan*



mac

Please remove splinters before emailing

Mon, Jan 17, 2005, 11:43am (EST-3) (TeamCasa) says:
Sage advise

Yeah, learned the hard way. Woulda been a LOT easier if someone
had said, before the first kid was born. The first kid is for practice,
get it right with the second.



JOAT
Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people
what they need to get.
- Albert

Mon, Jan 17, 2005, 7:07pm (Buddy=A0Matlosz) says:
See that, Doug? JOAT was working on your house and you didn't even know
it. snip

Yeah, Doug, now come and get my kid's old vehicles out of the
yard. They always get sleepy when I ask "them" to do it.



JOAT
Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people
what they need to get.
- Albert