Ridiculous Woodworking Books

Actually – some packing boxes and packing materials can be valuable. A friend of mine is a wheel in the world of antique model train collecting, and a few years back sold a box for nearly 10k. (It was one of two known boxes for a set from the 1920’s that only three partial examples were known to exist.)

Most of the ‘collectibles’ being sold today are going to be valueless in the future because everyone is keeping them.

-- Derek, Bremerton WA --

LOL. I was going to respond that I had saved all my LN boxes….

: ^ )

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Thanks Karson! Nearing the end of a long day, a good chuckle was needed!

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

Absolutely agrre with kindlingmaker…........good laugh.

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

Good stuff!

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Here’s some weird titles
“Jigs for left handed pink french door stops 2nd edition”plus “The compete guide to waxing your turtle” “how to train your dogs not to cheat at cards” “Woodworkers guide to auto repair while carving” “how to avoid friendly people while bowling” How to interrogate your neighbors cat”“avoiding trees with bad attitudes.
“How to Uninstall screens doors in you submarine under water” Seven steps to cleaner dirt”” choosing the correct deodorant by taste”” How to draw air with you eyes closed”” fleas not just for circuses any more”How to itch your ear while rowing a boat and eating a banana”” ducks in history”“How nose hair effects your jogging ””How snakes ride bikes”what gorillas do in the mist”” 37 things LJ can stand for”“recipes for things you don’t eat”“Sleeping the plague of the century”“what flies think about”“Sawdust the perfect salt substitute”

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com

What about “Nakashima machinery crates, the Chinese sweatshop days”.

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

what about “handmade CNC woodworking methods”

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

How about woodworking for Eskimos ?

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

What about “Glueless violin making with pocket screws”?

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

Or maybe “Particleboard Heirlooms”.

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

Woodturning with an electric drill and screw driver

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

What about … Woodworking for Couch Potatoes

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

“Or maybe “Particleboard Heirlooms”.”

That’s my favorite!

“What about … Woodworking for Couch Potatoes”

Don’t laugh… The Model Railroad hobby has a whole recognized subset known as “Armchair Model Railroaders.”

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Karson , your are a very intelligent and funny guy.
I hope everyone else can see into your warped comedic mind too.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

On a Plumber’s truck:
‘We repair what your husband fixed.’
On another Plumber’s truck:
‘Don’t sleep with a drip. Call your plumber.’

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

British industry magazine ‘The Bookseller’ has opened voting for the oddest book title of the year, some of which suggest that nothing is stranger than non-fiction.

Readers of the magazine’s website www.thebookseller.com are being invited to vote on a shortlist of six non-fiction books in its annual Diagram Prize for the Oddest Title of the Year.

The nominations are made by publishers, booksellers and librarians from around the world.

The nominees are:

- Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan

- How Green Were the Nazis?

- D Di Mascio’s Delicious Ice Cream: D Di Mascio of Coventry – An Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans

- The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification

- Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium

- Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence

Joel Rickert, deputy editor of The Bookseller, told BBC radio today: “It’s the only literary prize where the content of the book doesn’t matter a jot.

“So, there’s still hope for Salman Rushdie or Martin Amis if they’re worried about the Booker (prize). All they’ve got to do is give their books an odd title and they’re in with a shot.”

Last year’s winner was People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead: How They Attach Themselves To Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It, by Gary Leon Hill.

The competition has been running since 1978, when the winner was Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever