Steve Russell's Lathe Talk
I receive Steve Russell’s free Lathe Talk newsletter every month. Steve is a very talented and prolific professional production turner. He quite literally stepped up to …the plate (well, bowl actually) when I posted a call for help fro...
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Mark
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posted 954 days ago
Welcome to Lumberjocks. An understanding spouse is most important especially when part of the house is used as a shop.
-- Mark
WayneC
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posted 954 days ago
Welcome to LumberJocks. I’m looking forward to reading your posts.
-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov
Max
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posted 953 days ago
Glad to see that you have made Lumberjocks a part of your Woodworking experience… Welcome…
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
frank
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posted 953 days ago
Hello Douglas;
Glad to see you around here! Sometimes I get busy and don’t have a chance to see every one who comes to LJ, but you were the only one here when I signed in this morning, so I was curious about your love for wood….
I’m also curious about what you mean when you talk about ‘milling up rough lumber….?
—-after following those links you gave, all I can say is WOW, these are in-deed animals of the ‘wood art’!
—-I also thank you for giving me another avenue to explore in woodworking, concerning the use of ‘polymer clay inlays’. I do rustic and as such I am always looking for ways to highlight those cracks of character that are often found in the crutch areas of the slab.
Thank you.
GODSPEED,
Frank
-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/
scottb
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posted 953 days ago
Welcome from a fellow graphic designer…. No need for me to ask how you make your own clock faces ;) Great work and welcome to LJ.
-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/
Karson
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posted 952 days ago
Welcome to LumberJocks.
-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †
oscorner
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posted 923 days ago
Welcome to LumberJocks! Let’s see some woodworking. I’ve enjoyed your projects.
-- Jesus is Lord!
PanamaJack
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posted 898 days ago
Welcome back to the best place in town…LumberJocks web site! Comeback and enjoy some woodworking fun.
-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,
Lee A. Jesberger
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posted 845 days ago
Hi Douglas,
I’ve gotten to the point that If it’s less than a couple feet, it’s got to go. In an effort to keep me from crying about that, I donate it to local woodworkers, and pray they use it well.
Sounds silly to say, but wood means a lot to me. I feel I owe it by best efforts, beings it took a while to grow, and it was a living thing.
Keeping anything shorter than that, would get overwhelming rather quickly.
And I too have those “noise memories”. It is rather amazing how a whiff of something triggers memories long forgotten.
Lee
-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com
Grumpy
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posted 737 days ago
Hi Douglas, you should ask Grumpy about the BAR!!! It is one of his projects, perhaps he could send you some photos (this might give him a nudge)! The Wife (Mo)
-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python
Harold
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posted 736 days ago
Hello Douglas, I love the mixed media direction. One area I really want to experiment more with is some of the composites available today as accents and structural pieces as well, it’s an exciting age we live in.
-- If knowledge is not shared, it is forgotten.
suliman
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posted 499 days ago
Hi Douglas,
-- Suliman , Syria, jablah ,
Dennis Zongker
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posted 481 days ago
Hi Douglas, It’s nice to know someone else is from Omaha, Nebraska. I go into Midwest Woodworkers all the time. Are web page is www.zongkers.com. Nice meeting you.
-- Dennis Zongker
Douglas Bordner
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posted 481 days ago
Glad you are aboard, Dennis. I have taken FWW for a decade and have rarely seen as beautiful a piece as your Griffin table in the readers pages or even featured in the articles. It ought to be fun and informative to have you with us.
-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.
suliman
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posted 479 days ago
THANK YOU TO ADD ME AS BUDDY
-- Suliman , Syria, jablah ,
jeanmarc
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posted 478 days ago
thank you for the comment C .j was perfect hopes that for me my translations are good
-- jeanmarc manosque france
Douglas Bordner
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posted 477 days ago
Suliman and JeanMarc-
It’s intriguing to me that this website, conceived and refined continually by a Slovakian gentleman has become a worldwide woodworking showcase and social network. It’s the largest and most expansive guild that has ever has occurred in history. And I (a middling woodworker with big dreams, from Topeka, Kansas, USA) get to be a part of it with you. Superb! رائع Superbe!
Hvala lepa, Martin
-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.
suliman
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posted 474 days ago
NICE to hear رائع that you from you I hop comenecate agean.
-- Suliman , Syria, jablah ,
suliman
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posted 473 days ago
Nebraska is great becuse you are from
-- Suliman , Syria, jablah ,
suliman
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posted 457 days ago
WHERE ARE YOU ?
-- Suliman , Syria, jablah ,
bibb
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posted 364 days ago
Douglas,
I wanted to share a cosmic series of events that happened to me this evening.
I read your generous words about my red pagoda jewelry box and I am greatly honored. As I was looking at the name of the author of the note (you) I noticed that you have over 2600 postings! My curiosity was peaked so I went to your site to check out your work. Before I navigated to your projects page I read your tribute to the three box makers. I followed the first link to Phillip Weber and was blown away. That is the level and style of art to which I can only aspire. Webber’s work is pure art. As I was taking care of the evening chores my mind kept wandering to what I had just seen. Going through the evening mail I saw a photo of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and the juxtaposition of that magnificent building and the Phillip Weber boxes came together in one of those rare flashes. I hope to be able to post images of my next jewelry box soon. I might have to name it something like “The PW Cube”
Follow this link to the image of the museum
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Darfur_at_the_Royal_Ontario_Museum_as_part_of_the_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_07.jpg
-- Bibb in CO at http://katanadesign.com
Bureaucrat
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posted 230 days ago
Happy Anniversary. In a few days you will have been a Lumber Jock for 2 years! Thanks for your participation and keep on posting!
-- Gary, South Central Wisconsin. So much to learn, so little time!