I decided to start up a new "you know you're a lumberjock when" due to the fact that the original one is so packed up n loaded that you can't read them all so lets start fresh and put in some new ones!
I agree with Daniel ( Craftsman on the lake) about the blood.
I think I qualify just by reading these posts instead of doing what they pay me to do.
Great tread…
To all the ladies here on LJ's, I'll apologize now for sounding sexist;
You know you're a LJ when you have all daughters (4), you've purchased tools for your son-in-laws for Christmas, and now find yourself buying tools for your grandsons for Christmas.
or
You try to find out what your son-in-law wants for Christmas by asking your daughter, and you learn his response was "Your Dad knows what tools I have and what I need next, hell he bought most of them".
or
Your 4 year old grandson already has his own work bench in your shop.
or
Your 4 year old grandson would rather go to the shop instead of the toy room when he comes to visit.
or
You find out your 10th grandkid, due in April, is a girl and you begin wondering what tool you'll get for her first. (I'm having trouble locating a pink hammer)
or
You bribe your son-in-law with tools and helping him finish the basement if he'll move your daughter back, closer to home. (doesn't seem to be working, I may have to get him a sweater this year)
..when you look at the photo posted by Charlie M, you cannot differenciate between the object and the subject, coz your eyes are on the image and your mind in your workshop.
Your a lumberjock when your driving down the highway with the kids in the car and u see a dog and a piece of wood in the road! Do you hit the dog in front of the kids to avoid a perfectly good free piece of wood?!
When you can show your wife a woodworking catalog and say "ANYTHING from here would be a great gift for me."
Also lately, when you're at office meetings and instead of paying attention to the speakers you're staring at the desks wondering how it was made and what kind of wood and finish was used. Or looking at the office doors and wondering where they got such a lovely piece of veneer.
When you check the tension on the bandsaw blade before bed to make sure it was loosened.
...you buy wood and don't have a project in mind for it (yet).
...You build something and THEN worry about what to do with it.
...you buy a tool because you MIGHT need it (even if you can't afford it).
...You buy a tool and your wife ask, "when did you get that?". Your response is "this old thing?!,...I've had this a while!"
I live in a renthouse and all the woodwork is painted
over with white paint and I have to turn the livingroom
light off just to sit in there so I wont sit there and twitch
wanting to get the ladder and scrapers out and fix it!
Lastnight I pulled all the floor vents out checking out the wood floor under the carpet!!
ugh i kno how you feel david…my house makes me miserable when i have no money to work on it…
you know you're an LJ when you run to the coffe shop (timmies in my case) for a fresh coffee, come home to your shop, get to work and end up drinking it cold an hour later when its covered in sawdust…lol
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