Lipstick woodworker!

LOL! Why do women get upset when we find alternate uses for the “good makeup” or, God forbid, the “good scissors”?

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

That’s a hilarious story Don! And, thanks for the idea. I was dealing with a very similar plate mounting issue myself.

-- Randy, Tupelo, MS ~ May I become more like the Master Carpenter every day.

Actually Randy, that idea came from when I was building a Pennsylvania long rifle. There are a lot of metal inlays in the wooden stock and the traditional method was to use candle soot. Of course, the girlie candles we have “Spiring Lilac” and such probably don’t soot!

Disclaimer: I am new to the list and am NOT a chauvanist. How can I be, I probably didn’t spell it correctly?

-- Don, Pittsburgh

thats one crazy story. my mom gets mad when i use our scissors in the shop. don’t really know why, she thinks i’m gonna destroy them!

LOL – the way to stay out of trouble is to only use it when the project is for her – even then it can risky business – anyone would think the lipstick or the scissors are irreplaceable and your project is – yikes – gotta love them though

-- Phil in British Columbia

If you gentlemen would go to the local ‘dollar store’ you can get lipstick a whole bunch cheaper, and no one should mind if you use it for whatever. It also works for setting a new door handle striker plate in a door jam. I probably didn’t use the proper terminology but I hope you get the idea.

-- Berta in NC

Berta, Hallelujah….a voice of reason!! But honestly isn’t an 18th C cherry flatware chest a good trade for a brush on style lipstick?

-- Don, Pittsburgh

Ok, it is as long as you are not going to notice a new purchase that could be $10 or more to replace the lipstick.
Fair is fair. Us girls gotta have it. ;)

-- Berta in NC

Don – That is one great story!

I can imagine you wife’s look oh too well. I’m sure it was very similar to the one on my SWIMBO’s face when I announced I had plans to apply a black parkerization technique to a plane casting in the kitchen, atop the family range. She wasn’t having any of boiling (weak) phenolic acid with blackening chemicals anywhere inside the house.

Oh, and Charlie, you put scissors right back where you found them, Mister.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Douglas…..Try boiling a cow horn on the kitchen stove! You won’t get away with that more than once.

-- Don, Pittsburgh