First “Official” Meeting of the Central Valley Woodworkers Club - UPDATE (Obi's Shop Photos)

Obi, love the hat and shades! I see you have a sign that says”Pleasant” on your office door, care to elaborate? You have been busy, I thought you were just bluffing us all this time. LOL.

-- Jesus is Lord!

This is awesome – what a great opportunity.

Thanks for the photos!
“Hi Obi!” :D

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

obi is the dude your twin or what?btw nice shop you got it made now

-- Phil, Chattanooga,TN

Good looking shop. Congratulations on the shio Obi:

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Wonderful shop space!

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

Wayne -

Thanks for sharing your visit to Obi’s shop! Looks like a great time and a wonderful peek into Obi’s new shop. Congratulations to Obi on the new space and shop upgrades!

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

I sit back in awe and wonder, at what a web community can create. You look at crazy stuff like all the whackjobs on MySpace and the serial killers stalking the world. Then you get on a site like this, with shared interest and a hope that the world is sane. I’ve met at least 3 people that, any one of them would have been worth finding this site, and I’ve got to read some incredible stories and see workmanship that I would not have experienced. Thanks for sharing your visit Wayne. I’m not entirely sure I’d like to bump in to Obi in a dark alley, but my guess is he’d escort me the hell out of it.

I’m glad you guys had a good day.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

I see you have a sign that says”Pleasant” on your office door, care to elaborate? oscorner
Os… last name

Thanks Debbie

btw nice shop you got it made now—Phil, Chattanooga,TN
Got it made? Not yet. Now i have to generate enough money to take the burden off the “money guy” (the man in the leather jacket looking attentavely at my floor joists)

Thanks Karson, Miles and David

Mot, I was raised in the dark alley, so escorting you to safety would be mandetory

reminds me of a story… while walking through the streets of Portland, Oregon with a young naive truckdriver from Oklahoma or someplace like that we were approached buy 3 homo-sexuals who started eye-balling my young friend and approached him and started talking about how much he’d like to have this young man. I got right in the approacher’s face and told him so matter-of-factly “Step the f* off, or I will hurt you.”

We then continued on our journey with no more trouble. I know what life is like on the streets. Jesus came along and helped me outta that life stile and gave me purpose… and a great shop.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

Nice story! I was walking in Portland, Oregon, on the West side of the Burnside Bridge. A friend of mine and I were looking for a clinic called the East Burnside Clinic. As we approached a pay phone to seek the exact address, some youths took off running at break neck speed. As we got up to the payphone, a “planet” of a man came up to us and said, “You sure scared those boys away.” My friend and I looked befuddled. Then the enormous presence of a man said, “You guys are cops aren’t you?” In a brief instant where I saw my life flash before my eyes, my friend says, “No, we’re just lost.”

I believe the only thing that saved me that day was a total inability to look “hard,” and my faith in mankind. The expression that must have been on my face when I turned to my friend was enough for the mountain of a man to start laughing, give us a pass, and directions.

I said, probably loud enough for all to hear, “If a man that big, and that mean looking asks you if you’re a cop? You say, you’re lost?”

I’m sure they still tell the story. I know I do.

Ah, Portland, Oregon.

It’s a great shop, obi!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

it’s so nice to see a little more of a Lj’s life— great stories, Obi & Mot.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Obi, You are lookin’ cool man. However you don’t look like you like to have your picture taken…(?). Is this because you were raised in a dark alley?

Nice sized shop. It is great that you share you shop with your woodworking club.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Great job with the pictures Wayne. It looks like Obi’s shop is really coming along.

Obi, I think you said it before, but is the loft for your wood storage or a finishing area? I would hate to lug all that wood up and down each time I needed it.

Congrats on the new shop. It looks like a great set up.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Congrats Mike, hope your business is a booming success. jockmike

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

Obi: Your money guy looks like you in a mirror, but with a different coat.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Panama Jack, I don’t mind having my picture taken. To be hionest I was posing for the picture. The problem was instead of going to Acting Classs and Model School, I was busy hanging out in the dark alleys. Wayne could have said “Look Sexy for the camera, Obi.” and I would have taken the same pose.

The upstairs is for finishing. When I’m finishing off my day, that is where I’ll be retreating to.

You might be a lumberjock if your dream home is above the shop.

You can tell who the money guy is and who the lumberjock is by the following:
Money guy is clutching tightly to the paperwork and the Lumberjock is holding tightly to the tape measure.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

lol too funny.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Nice shop Obi,
It looks to me like the Money-guy is waiting for his money, am I right? LOL

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

no the monry guy is there to give me money

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

woo hoo.. gotta love that!!

((looking around for a money guy in my house))
drats.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)