The Sawdust Chronicles 30 Day Challenge Trash Talking Thread!

If that’s a bowl why does it have wheels.

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

I’ve seen something as ugly as your desk organizer, but I had to pay admission first.

-- Premium firewood created daily.

That’s a desk organizer? Did you stop half-way?

-- Splintered Board Podcast - Woodworker Un-extraordinaire

Your desk organizer would make the most wonderful kindling, but not much else.

You killed a tree to make that?

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

As a desk organizer, that thing makes a great paper bag

-- Gary, DeKalb Texas

seriously. i entered my name in the contest.
I have to admit to being seriously offended when i listened to the details of the contest, and heard him say he was entering his boyscout troupe against us.
after hearing that, no way i will waste any of my time or wood.
don’t really care what the project is.

-- Junior -Quality is never an accident-it is the reward for the effort involved.

atually none of them singed up thats what rick told me on saturday and they wouldnt be able to win prizes anyway

-- kosta brownsville brooklyn my home

that thing looks like it came out of boston lol the red sox probably shited on it lol

-- kosta brownsville brooklyn my home

So JuniorJoiner, what your saying is that you are scared of competing against boy scouts? Its a waste of time and wood because you have no chance at beating them?

YES!! We are talking some SMACK now! :)

-- Wipe the blood stains from your blade before coming in.

JuniorJoiner,
It’s taken me about 1 hour now to decide whether to post this or not, but I guess I’ll do it anyway…

Seriously, I’m shocked. The mission, maybe not the history, but the mission of the podcast is to get beginning woodworkers more comfortable with woodworking. Trying to get children involved has always been part of that. I’m truly surprised to hear that anyone would be offended by this.

Contest rules are in place for very specific reasons. If you’d like to discuss the finer points and the reasons for the rules then I invite you to please join me as a guest on the show. I’m absolutely willing to listen to opinions on how to make the next contest better.

I’m really just flabbergasted at the thought that someone would be offended by allowing groups of children to compete in a contest that is offering 14 prizes. I’ve never even heard of a woodworking build contest that offered that many prizes. That comes out to a little over 1 prize for every 3 contestants. And if I can assume I know which contestant you are, you were an early registrant and won a subscription to Woodcraft Magazine as long as you complete the project. Plus, you wouldn’t be competing against the Boy Scouts, they are beginners and you listed yourself as an Amateur.

In comparison, when you join a marathon or triathlon, are you offended by the many rules, or at the officials for allowing professional athletes to race also? So then you don’t race? Are you offended when you buy tickets to a raffle and someone right behind you bought twice as many tickets?

I guess I just don’t understand your logic here…

-Rick

-- Splintered Board Podcast - Woodworker Un-extraordinaire

JrJoiner, don’t mess with those boy scouts they have hunting and tracking skills to find you! Lighten up man, who cares about the prizes, the designing is the most fun.

-- Check out my blog and podcast "The Renaissance Woodworker" at www.rogersfinewoodworking.com/blog

Well I don’t want to pick on JuniorJointer. This is a thread for talking trash among all contestants. I would like to offend all of you equally. All of you who’s desk organizers look like they were designed my a drunken monkey as a practical joke to be played on other drunken monkeys. CHA HAAA!

-- Wipe the blood stains from your blade before coming in.

Waid,
Oh, so you really just want us to pick on yours then.
OK.
Ummm, yours is ugly and it’s designer dressed it funny.
(I’m not really that good at this)
:D

-- Splintered Board Podcast - Woodworker Un-extraordinaire

your right, maybe i misunderstood. I took it that the contest was for other beginner to intermediate woodworkers as we find here on lumberjocks.
and yes, I do have a problem with comparing any project of mine to something made by children. I’m sure some of them are quite good, probably better than me. thats not the point.
as for rules or a race, if i signed up for a 10k and realized it was for children, no i wouldn’t run.

I meant no disrespect at all by what i posted, I just voiced my view.

as for prizes, i really respect what you are trying to do. and it is great that you are.

-- Junior -Quality is never an accident-it is the reward for the effort involved.

Spaids, sorry if what I posted hijacked some of your thread.
I read enough of your posts that i Know nothing is meant to offend.
keep up the great work.

-- Junior -Quality is never an accident-it is the reward for the effort involved.

Well, now that you bring it up, being compared to children isn’t the nicest feeling in the world. Though some of my work doesn’t compare to the few teenagers on LJ…

Anyway, I hope that it helps knows that the Boy Scouts are working in groups (not just one kid) and have a lot of help from troop leaders – parents. And, I still don’t know that any of them are actively working on the project…

I’ll keep this in mind for the next contest though.

Oh, ummm, Kosta, above, is 13 years old… And his project is finished. He’ll be judged as a beginner.

Thanks for your candidness JuniorJoiner.
Sorry for perpetuating the thread hijack Waid.

-- Splintered Board Podcast - Woodworker Un-extraordinaire

Well it wouldn’t be a hijack if you GIRL SCOUTS would simply end your comments with an insult!

I personally don’t care if I’m competing against kids, pro’s or monkeys. I just wanna win and I don’t see how I can lose when all your desk organizers look like they were made by crack smoking BEAVERS!

-- Wipe the blood stains from your blade before coming in.

Well its over. Pencils down and hand in your tests. No more trash talking from me on this one. Good luck guys.
6-1-2009

PS
Are we going to be able to see everybody’s project somehow?

-- Wipe the blood stains from your blade before coming in.

I spitballing some kind of display mechanism for the submitted projects.
I might, though, decide that the least amount of stress-related-project-displaying avenues might be a video podcast episode. So, we’ll see. I’ll update all of the podcast subscribers when I make a decision.

-- Splintered Board Podcast - Woodworker Un-extraordinaire