hobby --> obsession

you know its getting rediculous when your next door neighbours are sweepin sawdust out the frontdoor of their house…mine complain all the time :P

-- My purpose in life: Making sawdust

My name is Charlie, and I’m a toolaholic.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

You know it is getting rediculous when you convert your living room into a permanent spray booth with hanging plastic and moving blankets laying out all over the floors. Then when the great deal table saw comes on sale but we have no room for it in our 2 car garage shop, my wife says lets store it in the dining room. But truly, our woodworking has made my family so unconventional I think even woodworkers would look at our life style like we have two heads on our shoulders.

-- Jerry Nettrour, San Antonio, www.topqualitycabinets.net

It’s bad when you go up to complete strangers and ask if you could scavange through thier ‘off cuts’ firewood pile. Then they get out and help you do it!!!!!

-- Theresa, https://sites.google.com/site/tmj65treasure/

In my small town. It would be no problem with that at all, I helped cut up a couple of trees from a storm we had. She had no fireplace I do. She said you cut it up you can have. It funny when my neighbor howllers out at me and asks if i’m doing anything today. Were both retired and he just turned 83.

-- Tim, Missouri ....Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the heck happened

It’s not pathetic, It’s a way of Life!

-- Mark, www.mrhudon.com

I nearly crashed my work truck the other day staring at an enormous maple that a park cut down because it was not safe. So many trees, so little time.

-- ShawnH "In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock." Thomas Jefferson

Is it weird to drive 180 miles one way, rent a motel room and pay $7.00 a bf for 50 bf of mesquite?

-- Gene 'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

We are forming a Woodworkers Anonymous support group here. We plan to meet on Saturday mornings … the only problem is, the meetings will be in the backroom of the machine shop where most of us buy our tools.

-- Gerry -- "I don't plan to ever really grow up ... I'm just going to learn how to act in public!"

The first step is admitting we have a problem…. I am not ready to do that.

-- Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

Nice to know I’m in good company. I don’t feel so bad now.

Funny that now we are staring at trees on the side of the road. I seem to remember a time when it wasn’t trees I was staring at. i believe the actor william h. macy said on the tonight show, after being asked what “fine woodworking” was, “it’s the penthouse for men over 50.” he had been interviewed earlier that day for an article on bowl turning.

I almost drove 200 miles to Hot Springs to buy 250 bd ft of cypress for $2 a bd ft. Problem was, i didn’t know how i could use all that cypress. i realized i was just buying wood to buy wood.

-- Glenn, Arkansas

Problem ? What problem ? I don’t see a problem, do you see a problem ?

-- RTB. stray animals are just looking for love

It’s the simple things in life like the kids at home and a loving wife, that you miss the most when you lose control. Everything you love starts to dissappear, the devil takes your hand and says no fear get another shop, just one more year, I’ve been there, that’s why I’m here.

-- ~ Inspiring those who inspire me ~

Where I stay everything is concrete. If I want any free timber for woodturning I must be willing to go into a logging area and dig out the tree stumps. The loggers sometimes left three foot high stumps . Do you think it a waste of good resource? Those tree stumps are valuable wood but who really cares.

If I have the means I would go into the forest and get out all the good tree stumps and turn them into tables and chairs or cut them up into blocks and export them as woodturning blocks.

-- asm

What’s pathetic is that you waited till dark to get your wood. I normally catch it as it is cut off the tree…gets less dirty that way.

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!