Hair and Wood - What's Your Take?

As a non-follicle challenged member, I still have the sweat problem. Though I would imagine you have more drip than a follicle imbued person. Is imbued the correct word to use there?

I do not wear hats in my own house, other’s people houses yes, in the shop I go the kilt route and usually go with a full bandana, this helps both to keep the dust out of the hair and the sweat from dripping. The right bandana makes you look bad-a$$, the wrong one and you look like a girl scout troop leader…not that there is anything wrong with being a girl scout troop leader…

-- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com

I like the bandana for keeping sweat out of my eyes and off my project and sawdust off my head. My wife did the same “wax on, wax off!”, once. I decided to not wear the bandana and went upstairs into the living room (where she was watching TV) and ran my hands over my sawdust laden head and dust went everywhere. She yelled something like “What the $%&@ are you doing?”, to which I replied Sawdust on, Sawdust off! She no longer makes snide comments on my attire.

-- last night I played a blank tape at full volume - the mime next door went nuts!

I achieve the same response just by sitting on the sofa and watching it turn white from the saw-dust off of my clothes.

-- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com

I have all my hair, and @ 46 I guess I am lucky! As far a sweating goes…I get sweaty watching other people work! I have had that problem, where I am working on a piece and I sweat on it! I hate when that happens, and I don’t go for the Mr Miyagi look, so I just keep a towel handy and try and towel down occasionally to keep from sweating on my work..

-- Women love me.....trees fear me

I wear a hat outside to keep the sun off my hea, the hair I have is thin, inside the shop I have towels handy to wipe the sweat off.

I was a Girl Scout troop leader when my daughter was in 5th grade, to be a leader you needed to be a girl scout so I joined (what we will do for our kids, go figure). Rich, you may look like a troop leader and not even know it. If I knew how to post my picture in that little box I would do it.

-- Ron Central, CA

My mother was a girl scout troop leader, it was always fun to bring home 100s of cases of cookies.

At your home page you click on Edit My Profile and at the top is where you can edit your Buddy Icon.

-- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com

As a follicly-impaired individual, I too suffer from this problem. I suppose a headband would be a good solution, although I’ve never tried one. My standard work-around is to keep a clean shop towel in my pocket, and wipe frequently.

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

Look at my pic, I’m covered in hair.

Seriously, I have a full head of hair, and I can work up a good sweat just sipping a beer outside…and it gets everywhere! When I’m working, I go the bandana route, and fancy myself a cool biker-dude. I even put on my oldest, nastiest pair of jeans, and an eaten up old T-shirt to really pull off the look.

-- Living on the square...

I got hair…maybe too much. I like wearing headbands as they keep the sweat from running into my eyes, but the wife says I look like Tommy Chong. What is it with wives?

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

As you can see I still have most of my hair @ 64 (65 in Oct.) and it contributes to my sweating. I sweat just thinking about work. I have this sweat band (for Jogging NOT) that I wear when I work in the shop and it helps a lot. I do get this weird form of hat hair when I wear it, kind of bushy on the top and flat on the sides. Once I put it on it has to stay for the rest of the day.

-- waroland, Mount Juliet, TN

Come on, admit it.

We (if I can presume to use the words we and our) just pull up the front of our shirt tails and wipe our face. Drives my wife nuts!

Lew

Okay this has been fun so far. It’s nice to know mine isn’t the only wife who has comments for my attire. Now the whole girl scout diversion was unexpected. I did have to catch myself from laughing too loud at some of the responses.

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

God only made a few perfect heads: the others He put hair on.

I wear a hat over my bald spots.

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

sorry what does WAX ON WAX OFF MEAN????Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

I employ a crack team of young ladies to use large bamboo fans to gently waft a breeze to keep my head dry.

What? Huh? Coffee, dear? Thanks. Oh, yeah. I wear a hat.

Karate Kid the movie Scotsman

-- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com

I’m a hat person. I have lots of them.

-- Bruce from Central New York

I guess I’m one of the lucky ones, my shop is air conditioned. But before it was, I used the bandana routine.
No comments from my SO, though.

-- If we learn from our mistakes, I'm getting a fantastic education.

As a LARGE man that has a seemingly rapidly receding hair line (not as bad a Greg3G’s) that is a smoker (nicotine increases some chemical in the pituatray gland that increases sweating) that lives in the humid south, I can and do wear shorts in the snow and will still sweat.

To remedy the problem of sweating on my work in the shop, I use either a bandana or a biker do-rag. I also keep VERY LARGE stack of towels lying around the shop to help wipe the sweat off. I also usually wear sleeve-less t-shirts, shorts, and untill I droped a large piece of wood on my foot, flip-flops.

One point that I keep forgetting and that I have to continually fix is——-don’t lay a sweaty rag on your table saw top——it with cause it to rust, even thru wax…...I have had to scrub and wax it twice already since july 1st.

-- Adrian ..... The 11th Commandment...."Thou Shalt Not Buy A Wobble Dado"

Ok…the last comment does require that I defend my honor. Just for the record, I still have the same amount of hair…my forehead is just getting larger.

I normally wear a hat and my wife would say that I have way too many. I was never comfortable with a bandana, it always seem to make my head itch.

I do keep a rag in my back pocket for those special occations when I have to wipe the sweat from my face…but I NEVER put them on any of my tools. That would be up there with buying a woble dado blade.

-- Greg - Charles Town, WV

Im a hat guy and still have a great amount of my hair left. DW teases me about the “cul-de-sac” that I am slowly developing . . . but I am fighting that all the way. Here on the east coast of Canada I do not believe that it gets hot enough to make someone sweat.

I ALWAYS wear coveralls. They are the best thing since sliced bread. The temperature dictates what I wear underneath.

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

And we’ll thank you to keep that private. ;-)

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

;-)

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

Can’t wear a hat in the basement or the floorjoist over head (being literally a hair overhead) will get knocked off (or I’ll walk in to a pipe hidden by the bill of my ballcap. It’s happened more than once.

I have to go the bandana route lest I go blind by sawdust, salt and sweat.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

ya Zuki…TMI!!! I am a hat guy…who is going GRAY at 38…and my 5 year old told me I was getting thin…which I denied…until my wife confirmed…and I just said the gray hair is just a different texture…But I am still doing better then scottb!!!!!!!!

I wear a plethora of baseball hats that are all getting pretty dirty…so each time I buy i new one I pledge not to wear it in the shop…and before you know it I have it on when I go out just to do “one thing” “real fast” and it is dirty…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...119 days to sanity...

Ball cap or bandanna rolled into a band for the warm 5 months a stocking cap for the balance of the year.

-- Gary, Stoughton, WI, USA

My father always told me that if you go bald in the front you are sexy and if you go bald in the back you are a thinker. However when they meet you just think you are sexy.

-- Ron Central, CA

If I knew how to post my picture in that little box I would do it.

RAH
click on MY LUMBER JOCKS in upper right of page, click on EDIT MY PROFILE under existing picture. click on REPLACE under the picture. choose a picture from your computer.

easy as pie, now lets see your face :-)

-- Fred, Springfield, Ma

and me., some where I have a terry cloth band with an elastic that I wear, seems to do the trick

-- Fred, Springfield, Ma

easy as pie, now lets see your face :-)

I was wondering if fredf is implying the huskie is his face?

-- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com

Well, I still have a full head of hair (I part it in the middle while I still can) and it doesn’t make any difference as far as sweat goes. Sweat just comes out from every pore on my face. I think that wearing a het just keeps the heat in.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

I don’t have any pics of myself on the computer. I will take one this weekend and post it. I did try however all the pictures on my computer and known of myself.

-- Ron Central, CA

I also sweat a lot. I keep rolls of paper towels all over the place. They they dry out and use them as wipe rags for glue. They are usually well taken care of when they end up in the trash.

Doe’s the hair or lack there of have anything to do with it. maybe weight!!!

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

<laugh> that was all very funny.

I cut the sleeves off my tee shirts and use the cut off as a head band, rag, glue wipe and any other things I need it for.

-- "so much to learn and so little time"..

I have plenty of hair (some would say too much) I used to keep a buzz cut and the sweat found its way into my eyes easier. I have a ponytail I keep tucked inside my shirt. My thick mane seems to wick perspiration away from my face. But it still drips off my arms and everything else right smack on a freshly sanded board.

-- Urban logger, http://nelsonwoodworks.biz/

There are some that say my hair is beginning to thin ever so slightly but I think it’s a trick of the light. I can’t remember high temperatures being a problem here; certainly not this summer. I do wear a rather grubby French beret to retain body heat. Douglas noticed it lurking in one of the photographs on this project:

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business.

I thought it was a tape measure cozy, doesn’t everyone have one of those?

-- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com

Stewart, I thought it might have been a Tam O’Shanter, because of the alleged antipathy between the Gauls and the Anglo-Saxons. You are a cosmopolitan!

Daren- I am heartened by your mane. I wore mine long well into the 90’s, but the missus isn’t a fan, so I have to fly my freak-flag on the inside. I usually wear the Miyagi or the Biker doo-rag depending on the temperature. But I’ll be stealing Snowdog’s tee-shirt trick for sure.

I’ve had a thought that I wish Martin would implement. I wish there were an embroidered LumberJocks patch that you could sew on your own clothing, hat, overalls or what have you.

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