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1273 days ago |
Hey folks, I was thinking. What if we came up with a listing of the little things and quirks about what makes all of us lumberjocks. For example: You know you’re a lumberjock if: you get the point. I’m sure you have many others that are better, so share them. thanks, -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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1263 days ago |
No. 6: you find your self driving around the block on the way home, secretly looking for big trees you could cut down and build something with. No. 7: your kids ask you everywhere you go, “could you make that dad?” (kinda cool trait to have, huh!) -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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1263 days ago |
No. 8: if when you bow your head at the table to pray for the meal with the family, when you open your eyes you find the saw dust that fell off the top of your head into your plate. No. 9: You love the smell of sawdust in the morning. -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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1216 days ago |
No. 10: every time you get a new tool, you re-read through all your back issues of Wood, Fine Woodworking, etc… to check out all those projects you can do now. -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1208 days ago |
No. 11: your wife chides you for not wanting to throw any piece of wood away. |
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1206 days ago |
No. 12: You carefully debate (with self) over which pieces of wood from the scrap bin are actually lowly enough to be used for a sacrificial backer board when driling, etc… No. 13: You remind wife/kids not to burn firewood from one particular half of the woodpile. -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1205 days ago |
No. 14: You go to bed at night and find your safety glasses still pearched on your forehead, your tape on your belt and the pencil you lost hiding behind your ear. |
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1205 days ago |
No. 15: you reach into your pocket for keys and pull out a handfull of sawdust along with them. -- www.darrylmasterson.com ~ www.darrylmasterson.etsy.com |
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1204 days ago |
Hey jocks, this is starting to get fun now, keep them coming: No.16: after a day working with power tools in the shop, you hear “crickets” nonstop at night when trying to sleep. No. 17: old friends call you to brag about the new power tool they just bought. AND: No. 18: You try to sound truly excited for your friend, but really, you just wish you had the tool they just got. But, you try to sound sincere. No. 19: You think about a project you could build just so you can use the little piece of purple heart you have on hand. No. 20: your spouse says to people, “he can just build anything with wood, but he is very electronically challenged.” She means it as a compliment. I think. No. 21: you quit a good paying, easy job, with a climate controlled environment, with vacation time, 401(K), sick pay, bereavement pay, and a company car, just so you can work hard for 10-12 hours a day, 6 days a week, sweating in a 100 degree shop, smelling sawdust, with no vacations, no retirement, have to work even when you’re sick, make less than minimum wage at times….......just so you can spend more time working with wood. -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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1204 days ago |
Nice one Dennis… that one made me laugh out loud! No. 22: You were temporarily excited…. then confused when you overheard co-workers (at the office) talk about picking up wireless routers at Best Buy or Circuit City. No. 23: It’s easier/faster to pick up a new speed square, tape measure, pencil, etc…. next time you go out, than to find yours amid the woodchips and clutter. Even though you “just had it.” -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1204 days ago |
No. 24: no matter how many compliments a projects brings, you can always list of the the “problems” that should be fixed, could have been done better, etc… -- www.darrylmasterson.com ~ www.darrylmasterson.etsy.com |
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1198 days ago |
No. 25: the (soon to be) forthcoming onslaught of pre-holiday catalogs in the mail only serves to inspire projects you could make better and cheaper (or free) – even though our wives know (and know better than to remind us) that it usually is cheaper to buy them, than to spend the time it would take to really make them right. No: 26. Christmas time is time to make toys and gifts to give… hoping only to receive new tools (to make more gifts next year!) -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1197 days ago |
No.27 When you have measured and have the piece ready to mark for the cut but find the pencil is always at the other end of the room. -- doug, Hudson Florida, www. dougandjudy@tampabay.rr.com |
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1183 days ago |
No. 28: You have a whole drawer dedicated for the storing of used orbital sanding paper sheets that are just not used up enough to throw away yet. I did just throw them all out yesterday! Yea for me! -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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1174 days ago |
No. 29: The large carpenter square seems to disappear, only minutes after setting it down. No. 30: Your 24” level seems to have the same kind of characteristics as your square. -- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1 |
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1174 days ago |
#31. when your husband sits in the car and never says a word while i go thu the dumpster at the door factory looking for doors for my woodburning. even tho i have a stack of them at home. you just never KNOW when you need that size you dont have. -- pat,ohio...http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y198/patshwigar/ |
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1159 days ago |
No. 32: -- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1 |
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1159 days ago |
Some mornings it’s just too hard to get out of bed… unless you hear a neighbor fire up the chainsaw. -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1144 days ago |
Can’t look at a piece of furniture with out crawling under it to see how its built. |
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1138 days ago |
No. 35: When you read the term “nicely figured crotch…..” you ONLY think of wood you want to see. (I know, I can’t believe I thought of it either. I debated with myself for several days before adding it, and will probably regret it, and then ask Martin to remove it for me.) -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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1138 days ago |
knotty…knotty |
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1138 days ago |
knotty, but funny…. No. 37: Your vacation photos are just as likely to contain images of joinery and antique furniture, as beaches, sunsets and your family, -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1102 days ago |
No. 38: You save all the untreated wood chips to place around your roses or other plants -- "Have you hugged your pet today?" ---------- Larry |
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1101 days ago |
No 39. You refuse to throw away your sawdust because you can use it to make your own filler (even though you have 4 barrels of assorted sawdust just in case) |
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1101 days ago |
No 48. You insist on using wooden pencils, because the mechanial pencils are just “wrong” |
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1101 days ago |
No 53. You can tell a sawdust by the taste of it in the air |
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1101 days ago |
No. 54. You tear apart one project just so you can use the wood for another project that somebody has ordered, and you don’t have the time to go get the wood for it (or don’t have the money to buy more wood til you sell the project you make from the project you have to tear apart first) O.K. So im a freak |
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1101 days ago |
No 58. You get insullted when someone buys anything without first asking you if you could make them one. |
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1101 days ago |
No 60. There are no such things as scraps because you insist on making your own dowels |
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1101 days ago |
O.K. so I lied … |
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1101 days ago |
No 64. When your barn is full of wood and the sawmill owner asks if youd like to make a pulpit for his church, and he’d like to trade you wood for making it. And, you say yes! -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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1101 days ago |
No 65. When you take a class on making a Shaker table out of white pine, any you ask the instructor if its OK if you bring your own Cherry lumber. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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1101 days ago |
No 66. When you take your son to the Shaker class so that he can try woodworking also, and one of the other students give him their wood so that he can actually make one. And then you replace the white pine offering with Cherry so that the first student can also make one. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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1097 days ago |
No 67. You know you’re a lumberjock, when the wood in your shop starts to talk to you. Or any wood starts to talk to you. Some people call that crazy, I call it Artistic Genius. |
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1097 days ago |
You’re really on a roll Obi – 53 is one of my favorites of the bunch. No 68. You love the smell of fresh cut/sanded cedar, and unfortunately know that freshly cut/sanded pressure treated smells like licorice. – (Oh, the health ramifications!) -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1096 days ago |
No 69. When you go lake canoeing with your wife, you stop to explore an island in the middle of the lake. Ha, what comes next is you find a rotted out and hollow log which you see as a piece of art. Asking the wife for help you proceed to place the piece of wood catty-corner on the canoe, of course the timber is longer then the canoe, and then you both paddle out and across the lake. Did I fell to mention that all the while you feel as if you just found a ‘pot of gold’. —frank, NH, www.frank.wordpress.com -- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/ |
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1096 days ago |
Whew! Frank: Mark -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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1096 days ago |
No 70. You might be a lumber jock if your woodworking club has made between 1000-1200 toys for charities for Christmas. And they’ve done it for the last 11 years. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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1095 days ago |
Now, Mark, a lumberjock would never leave his wife while paddling a canoe carrying a log … Think, Man !!! One person has to hold onto the log … One person paddles the canoe. Sheeeesh! |
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1095 days ago |
No 71. How about when you carry three knives with you in spite of the added weight increase to your pants. One is a lockback knife for debarking or spudding, one a three bladed smaller old timer for cleaning up the wood and then the all around leatherman for whatever comes next. And then there is the what do I do now when dressing up to go out for a social engagement and realizing some of those knives just don’t fit in your dress pants. Lockback too big, leatherman to bulky to fit under a jacket and so you won’t fill totally stripped you sneek the old timer into your pants pocket. Actually I’m doing better since I used to carry four knives. No 72. And then what about the ever present carpenter pencil which you cut in half and carry in your pants pocket also along with the added bits of ever present sandpaper which you carry for the, ‘well you just never know’. Actually the carpenter pencil justifies the need of the old timer since you will need to sharpen the pencil ever so often. And yes there is that sigh of relief when after forgetting the pencil behind your ear and searching your shop you remember that pencil in your pocket. No 73. You are delighted when going out for the evening with your wife to a friends house because you know that this friend has some woods out back and/or a woodpile. Knowing all this you proceed to put one of your chain saws in the back of your truck just in case. No 74. When going to a friends workshop, again you are delighted since you will have a chance to look through his scrap wood box. And then when he doesn’t understand how you could use anything as small as this piece of wood you proceed to inform him of all the many possibilities. The only thing wrong with this is that the next time you visit that friend he has none of that exotic wood in the scrap box since he has now taken your advice. No 75. And what about the always and ever present pieces of wood saved from the woodpile that are setting around, at least for as much time as you can squeak out before your wife starts complaining. Ha, I have set them on kitchen tables, pianos, window sills, cabinets, dressers and then there is the outside and I’m not even going there. Having these pieces close by inspires me and opens the door for conversation when others come around, at least this is one method of explaining marketing. No 76. I’m going to try and make this one my last for today, can I? When out driving especially in a new area, the thrill of excitement that comes from seeing an old barn on someone’s land. Since I’m into the old English Barns of New England, I can never just pass one by without stopping to inquire if I might just be able to ‘root around’ inside the barn. I’ve made sure that I always carry a pair of carhartt overalls in my truck for the once again ‘just in case’, plus the tie downs and bungees. My wife has long ago gotten use to these ‘root arounds’ and gets a since of pleasure from this also, while my truck has also learned to not complain. Much has been the treasure ‘in my eyes’ that I have saved and salvaged from old barns as they are an ever source of hardware and timber. -- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/ |
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1077 days ago |
You Know your a LumberJock when .. while watching TV you pay more attention to the furniture / molding / cabinets than the show. Always thinking .. I can make that. |
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1077 days ago |
Ooops that was No 77….. |
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1073 days ago |
No 78 Tou might be a LumberJock if you buy a Haz-Mat suit to keep the sawdust out of your pockets and clothes. So that the other half of the family is happy. Even though you still get the wood chips in your hair. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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1073 days ago |
No. 79. Your “free-form” sessions at the lathe start to serve as a nice little Rorschach Test of your subconscious (for better or worse!) -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1072 days ago |
No. 80. You know your a Lumberjock when: You’re just about done assembling your project, and your short by about 2 screws, and all the stores are closed. Bummer !!! -- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1 |
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1072 days ago |
NO. 81 You know you’re a Lumberjock if all the gloves you own are fingerless. Jockmike2 -- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com |
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1072 days ago |
Mike is that even the rubber gloves? -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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1072 days ago |
I’m still trying to figure out how Karson gets wood chips in his hair? |
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1071 days ago |
I’m talking about the jersey gloves carpenters wear in winter. I’d wear out a pair a day. There just would’nt be any fingers in them, from grabbing nails and hauling wood, and that was way to much explaining to be a good lumberjock joke. If we had worn rubber gloves our hands would have been froze by the end of the day. mike -- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com |
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1071 days ago |
Dennis: I could say that it’s the back of the sawblade kicking up chips. But it’s really the lathe when chips start flying. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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1070 days ago |
I think he’s referring to “What Hair?” |
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1069 days ago |
No. 82 You just might be a Lumberjock when your colors are all Prefixed by a Brand Name, i.e. Dewalt Yellow, Hitachi Green, Milwaukee Red, Ryobi Blue |
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1069 days ago |
Very Funny guys! -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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1069 days ago |
No. 86. You pick your next project on the tool you’ll absolutely “have” to buy to do it. -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1067 days ago |
I hadn’t thought of that, thanks Scott. And just in time for Christmas. And Karson? God only made a limited amout of perfect heads, the rest he had to cover up with hair. |
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1066 days ago |
No 87: You think it would be cool to have a “You might be a lumberjock if…..” printed on a T-shirt. Karson, I got the “no-hair” joke the first time, too bad it flew past you. We are laughing with you, not at you. Notice that my photo has the top of my head cut off. Not bad photography, just good editing. Love you all, keep them coming. -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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1066 days ago |
No 88: When you’d rather turn a pen out of that stick than throw it to your faithful dog… -- Accuracy is not in your power tool, it's in you |
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1066 days ago |
I had my tongue in cheek when I replied. No 89: When you see a newer (More functionality) tool than the one you own, and you wonder who you can see sell the current one to, so that you can upgrade. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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1065 days ago |
This is getting really long… Maybe we will have enough for the each day of year shirt series – not just each day of week ;) You’re very creative guys.. keep them coming. -- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka |
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1065 days ago |
No. 90: No. 91: No. 92: No. 93: Goodnight folks, -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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1065 days ago |
Oh, one more: No. 94: You are so proud of yourself because you finally found a justifiable use for the “purdy” board you bought in No. 85 Above (thanks Obi). now goodnight, -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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1065 days ago |
No. 95: The list of projects you were definately going to make this Christmas is turned into next years list…. unfortunately I was also mostly a hold over from the previous year… -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1064 days ago |
5 more and we’re on 100. amazing -- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka |
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1064 days ago |
No. 96 You just might be a lumberjock when you think it strange that your wife doesn’t want to buy the things you made. |
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1064 days ago |
No. 97 You just might be a lumberjock if this is one of the first 3 sites you go to every morning, just to see if there are more “You just might be a lumber jock if/when” comments posted |
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1064 days ago |
No. 98 You just might be a lumberjock if you sit around thinking up “you just might be a lumberjock if/when” comments so you can be the one to reach the “100” mark |
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1064 days ago |
No. 99 You just might be a lumberjock if you giggle at the fact that you are going to be the 100th Comment No 100 You just might be a Lumberjock if you post the 100th comment just to see if you can get a free “You just might be a Lumberjock if” t-shirt |
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1064 days ago |
No 100 You just might be a Lumberjock if you post the 100th comment just to see if you can get a free “You just might be a Lumberjock if” t-shirt |
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1064 days ago |
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE, THIS HAS BEEN A HOOT! IT’S NICE TO SEE THAT I’M NOT THE ONLY WOOD FREAK |
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1061 days ago |
No. 101 You just might be a lumberjock, if you logged on to Lumberjocks.com on Christmas Day just to post a project or say hello to people you’ve never met. Again, Merry Christmas Y’aLL. |
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1061 days ago |
ha. that 101 is cool, Obi! Merry Xmas to all Christmas LumberJocks. -- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka |
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1061 days ago |
Where I live the city does a ‘hard rubbish’ collection twice a year. That’s when you can put almost anything out in front of your house for free disposal. So… No. 102 You know you’re a Lumberjock when you troll the neighborhood’s hard rubbish for discarded furniture to recycle in your shop. -- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/ |
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1055 days ago |
No. 103 You just might be a lumberjock if you buy the Top Tool Review Magazine of the Year just to see how many of them you actually own. ( I was going to buy it, but decided I’d rather buy a 3/8” chisel instead) And after I looked through it I’d found that I had the top biscuit joiner, the number 2 mitre saw, top impact driver (in it’s class). |
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1055 days ago |
No. 104 (Continued from #17) old friends call you to brag about the new power tool they just bought. AND you try everything you can think of to borrow it and try it out to make sure it works properly… |
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1055 days ago |
No. 105 You just might be a lumberjock if you go to Church with your tape measure on your belt. |
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1055 days ago |
You know you’re a LumberJock when you stay up until 3:00am New Years Eve reading blogs from your LumberJock buddies. -- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/ |
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1055 days ago |
No 106: Continuted from 97 – when this is the first site you check in the morning and before bed (or anytime you come home/leave the house. Are we keeping ourselves out of the shop by seeking motivation and comraderie? I say no, not sure if my wife would agree. -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1055 days ago |
No, Scott. This is like we are the boss and the employee at the same time, and this is the LAW !!! You MUST have a break every two hours (or something like that) where you relax and sit down and talk to co-workers. And if you are the boss and decide that Company policy mandates a nap for better afternoon performance, or your employee needs some extra time on the computer (Kind of like a sick day, or a mental health day) Just like the big corporations do. |
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1055 days ago |
I’m really looking forward to the Messenger thingy that Martin “The Man” is going to either make or bootleg from the old yahoo messenger archives or whatever.:)) |
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1055 days ago |
No. 107: No. 108: -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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1055 days ago |
MARK !!! PRAY… that you wife never stumbles onto this site and reads that last one. hahahahaha !!!! |
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1055 days ago |
Why, she loves the Dog also. Have a great new year Obi. -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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1055 days ago |
No 108: When you put out a roadside sign for everyone to see and be able to find you. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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1055 days ago |
Sorry that one was 109!!! -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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1055 days ago |
110: Happy new Years everyone! -- www.darrylmasterson.com ~ www.darrylmasterson.etsy.com |
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1055 days ago |
No. 111 You know you’re a lumberjock when your pastor calls you out at church and tells you, “Let me see your tape measure.” |
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1054 days ago |
My “hardy-har-har” wife intercepted the flurry of emails notifying me of additions to the “you might be a lumberjock…” list this morning. She thinks it would be a good idea to start a second list called: “you might be married to a lumberjock if…...” so, consider whether you think this is a good idea before I start another list as a separate category. But, before you answer, carefully ponder the concept, as it might get personal, and maybe not always fun to read. ha, ha. Mark -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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1054 days ago |
Of course, unless it is our wives that post the comments under “you might be married to a lumberjock if…...”, our perceptions might be all wrong. My wife is always accusing me of not understanding her perspective on things, and frankly, she is right, I don’t. But I think her bumper sticker sums it all up. ”PROUD AND BLOND OF IT” -- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/ |
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1054 days ago |
I am laughing hard here in Kansas Don. My expectation is that it will be our spouses that would be writing up the “new” list. I know my wife was the one that wanted to compile a list of all of the things she finds funny about her lumberjock, but I don’t see them as so funny. I guess that is the risk, if we turn the spouses loose on it, it might give us some more members to the forum, but it might have a harder time laughing at ourselves. I think I can take the jokes, I hear them anyway. thanks Don, my wife is Blond, and her comment is, “that was mean.” Then, I explained to her that the bumper sticker was on the blonde’s car. Then she got the joke. thanks, -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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1054 days ago |
So, if our spouses start up the new list… and we don’t read it… it doesn’t matter if we find them funny or not… I think you pretty much summed it up for them with #5 anyhow. -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1053 days ago |
So if Don makes the joke it’s mean, If his blonde wife makes the joke it’s funny??? O.K. Here’s my attempt to be fair to all those married to Lumberjocks. |
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1053 days ago |
Hey! I’m all for the wives putting in their own “You might be married to a Lumberjock if/when … I’ll bet they’de be funnier than you guys give them credit for. |
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1053 days ago |
Hey, Obi, you’re more of a sensitive new age guy than I would have expected. As we Aussies say, “Goodonya, Mate!” -- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/ |
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1053 days ago |
No.2 You might be married to a Lumberjock if, your spouse would rather be in the shop with ya than be goin out to dinner. |
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1053 days ago |
No.3 You might be married to a Lumberjock if your spouse knows more about your tools than you do (Highly unlikely) but stranger things have happened. |
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1053 days ago |
And that’s easy for you to say Don, I havent heard from Mark’s wife yet. |
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1053 days ago |
Wait was number 1 and number 2 the same? I’m feeling twinges of “Blondness”... or old age… |
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1050 days ago |
You come home after a long hot sweaty day working with pine and your wife hugs you a says “I love the way you smell”. |
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1049 days ago |
No. 112: You might be an “Old” Lumberjock if you thought of a great line to add to this forum last night thinking you would do it in the morning, and this morning you have no idea what it was. ugh! -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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1049 days ago |
Dennis, sounds like your wife is a Lumberjock |
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1044 days ago |
Humm Hi my name is Ron and I am a LumberJock. :) No. 113 You might be a Lumberjock if you have wood books,magazines, catalogs, ETC in your bathroom. |
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1043 days ago |
No. 114 You just might be a lumberjock if …get an adrenalin rush at the smell of sawdust |
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1043 days ago |
NO. 115: “you think reading moisture content in wood with a 2-Pin Meter is fun!” -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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1043 days ago |
Doesn’t everyone? My wife just came in and saw me with my meter and said “Ooooh, what’s that? Can I try it?” Maybe she really is a Lumberjock |
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1041 days ago |
No. 116 You just might be a lumberjock if … The Lumberjock Logo on your website is bigger than anything else. |
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1040 days ago |
No 117 You might be a lumberjock if … if you read your woodworking magazines in the Loo and you complete it in one sitting. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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1039 days ago |
You weren’t really taking care of business, you just wanted to read in peace, and you KNEW nobody would bother you there;) |
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1032 days ago |
No 118. You just might be a Lumberjock, if food drips on your sawdust covered shirt and you consider the sawdust another “flavor” |
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1032 days ago |
No 119: You might just be a LumberJocknCook, when you use the smaller of your tasty (non Toxic) wood scraps to use in your smoker. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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1029 days ago |
No 120: You might be a lumberjock when you find yourself telling a guy you like his legs. |
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1029 days ago |
lol @ Dennis… too funny -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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1029 days ago |
or a pervert HAHAHA. ANd I took it a s a compliment You might ba a lumberjock when you like a man telling you that you have nice legs. |
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1029 days ago |
No 122: You’re definately a lumberjock when a man tells you you have nice legs, and it doesn’t even occur to you that he might not be talking about your table. -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1023 days ago |
this should actually be 124 because Don stuck one in there between 95 and 96 and didnt number it… Try to keep up Don. SO I dont remember if this was put down and I don’t have the time to read them all again, but NO 124 You just might be a Lumberjock if you greet someone by using phrases like “welcome A board” |
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1023 days ago |
or you get on your computer by Logging on |
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1023 days ago |
or tell people to “Stick” around |
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1023 days ago |
get “Hammered”, “Nailed” |
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1023 days ago |
No. 125. You know you’re a Lumber jock, when, your first thought in the morning is how to convert your shop vac into a Cyclone Mini Dust Collector |
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1023 days ago |
So with the few recent posts, are we at 128 now? Way to get off track, just after youset the record straight Obi :) -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1018 days ago |
Well, I think those last two are No 126. So… No. 127 You know you’re a Lumber jock, when you start bragging that Lumberjocks.com has grown another 100 (almost) in 29 days. LUMBERJOCKS.com … the Yahoo! of woodworkers |
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1018 days ago |
You know you’re a lumberjock when you have 3 cars and a 3 car garage, but the cars have never actually been in the garage. -- Thomas Porter, Phoenix, AZ, www.thomasporter.com |
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1018 days ago |
That was No. 128 |
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1017 days ago |
No.129. You know you’re a Lumberjock when you get an article published in a major magazine and ask them to make it in a pdf format so all your friends can get it for free. Thanks Marc |
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1016 days ago |
No.130—You know you are a Lumberjock when you ask Martin to post an auto-counter to keep track of all the You know you are a Lumberjock postings.. -- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com |
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1016 days ago |
No. 131 – you know you’re a Lumberjock when…. You get all excited about how a knot in a piece of wood looks just like an apple. -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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1016 days ago |
No. 132 – you know you’re a Lumberjock when you pull just as much firewood off the pile for the shop as you do for keeping warm… Look at all this straight grained (practically quartersawn oak!) -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1015 days ago |
N0. 133 You know you’re a lumberjock when you call a workshop “Lovely” ... Don. I feel a “You know you’re a Lumberjock if/when …” book in the works On Sale at your Local Lumberjock Shop |
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1015 days ago |
haha@ Scott—I was at a market today buying potatoes and they had bins of firewood (hardwood) for sale for $5 / big box.. and I said … “Rick—look, only $5~!!!” and he said, “Debbie, – it’s FIREwood.”. -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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1015 days ago |
and you replied, ’but, look at the grain!’ -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1015 days ago |
Sticks are sticks. One man’s firewood is another man’s Masterpiece. The difference between a masterpiece and firewood is who’s hands it’s in. One person sees a toothpick for picking between their teeth, I look at it as something to get glue into a very tight spot. I see it as something to stuff into a screw hole when it’s become too large for the screw and needs to be filled. I have about 800 toothpicks in my shop just for the times when I need a little stick and cant find one. Ever notice the grain in a toothpick? You will now. |
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1015 days ago |
I’ve noticed that all the scrap wood deemed only worthy for making pallets is perfectly quartersawn (if you look at it crosswise)... No 134: you know you’re a lumberjock when you save every piece of wood over 1 board foot. (and every other piece too! -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1015 days ago |
No. 135 You know you’re a lumberjock when you give your brother-in-law fire wood and then go and take it back, if he doesnt burn it fast enough to suit you. |
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1013 days ago |
No. 136…you’ve got your wife convinced that putting her Diet Coke can on your cast iron tables is grounds for divorce. Just kiddin’ my wife knows better. -- I've got a bandsaw in my kitchen... |
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1010 days ago |
No.137 …At a party (this really happened), you hear someone ask your wife what her husbands cologne is and she replies ” ode del woodshoppe”...and then she tells them she has spent thousands of dollars for you to wear that fragrance!. -- The Gnarly Wood Shoppe |
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1010 days ago |
Where do I buy that fragrance Schroeder? And does it come in various fragrances like “Walnut, Pine and Cherry”? That just might be an idea for the marketing group. |
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1010 days ago |
No. 138 … You know you’re a lumberjack when your snot has the same texture and color as wood filler. (Please don’t use your snot people… doesn’t work as well) -- Thomas Porter, Phoenix, AZ, www.thomasporter.com |
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1010 days ago |
why not? right color, and it gets hard |
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1010 days ago |
No. 139 … You know you’re a lumberjack when your nightmares are decorated with IKEA furniture. -- Thomas Porter, Phoenix, AZ, www.thomasporter.com |
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1010 days ago |
No. 140 – You know your a lumberjock when you see a new magazine on the shelf at the bookstore, but you don’t pick it up because you know (hope) it’ll be waiting for you when you get home and check the mailbox…. but then you can’t remember if you subscribe to that one or not. -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1010 days ago |
You know you’re a lumberjock when your yearly magazine subscriptions total more than you make in a week |
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1009 days ago |
That was No. 141 |
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1009 days ago |
No. 142 – You know you’re a LumberJock when you stop believing all those tool reviews in woodworking magazines that derive their major source of income from ads paid for by the same companies whose tools they are reviewing. -- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/ |
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1009 days ago |
tell me it is not so, Don… tell me it is not so!! -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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1009 days ago |
You mean the editorial content could be compromised by advertising dollar considerations? In other works, like Debbie said…tell me it’s not so! -- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com |
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1009 days ago |
Ha! – 138 and 140 made me laugh out loud (now my wife is looking at me funny…) this is a good topic, scary how many fit me! (very good Scott & Thomas) -- The Gnarly Wood Shoppe |
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1009 days ago |
Of course so many of these fit you… You’re a Lumberjock! As for our wives, well…. -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1008 days ago |
I woke my wife up the first time I started reading these and when she asked what was so funny, I said “It’s nothing, Honey, just a bunch of lumberjocks.” NOW I REMEBER … THIS WAS THE REASON I JOINED. |
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1007 days ago |
143: you know you are a lumberjock when you carry a piece of wood for your next project – in your finger!! OUCH -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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1007 days ago |
144: you know you are a lumberjock when in church sunday morning – your prayer and confession is ” thou shall not covet thy neighbors walnut tree…..... 145: when the new 3/4 ton pick up you bought – and built side boards for to haul all your lumber in ..you carved out or did a custom router job to dispay your love for… or business of wood working ... “Got Wood? ” with your telephone number next to it. -- Dusty |
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1007 days ago |
And drive said truck to Church… Where those who don’t know you think the worst. |
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1007 days ago |
146: when you overhead a co-worker mention they just took down (or will be taking down) a tree. and you immediately ask if you can have it. Thinking, worst case, at least you’ll have some firewood. -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1007 days ago |
147: And many others. -- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1 |
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1007 days ago |
148: when you no longer get slivers and bleed because you have both so many calouses and dryed glue on your hands -- Dusty |
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1007 days ago |
149: When you always spell the word would like “wood”. -- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/ |
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1006 days ago |
150 when you are sitting outside and hear a router or table saw that belongs to your neighbor and you can tell the blade and bit is dull….. just by the sound it is making -- Dusty |
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1006 days ago |
151: You know you’re a lumberjock when it takes you longer to look through your back issues to find a project, than it does to make them. 152: and while you’re going though the back issues, (regardless of how many you have) you remember every project in them. -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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1006 days ago |
No. 153. You know you’re a Lumberjock if you tear apart all of your back issues of wood magazines and put the articles in seperate binders according to their topic, each article in it’s own plastic protector. |
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1005 days ago |
Last Wed, the day after my birthday, while I was at the Woodworkers club making toys for Christmas, my wife showed up and surprised me by making the food to feed all of the workers there that day. She made a little poem to give to all of the men and women working. LumberJocks Have: Sawdust in their hair, -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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1005 days ago |
aaaaaaaw -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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1002 days ago |
That just reminded me that Noah was a Lumberjock. “Vooo-pah, vooo-pah,vooo-pah…. riiight.” No 154 You just might be a Lumberjock when you’re building a boat, when no one has ever heard of rain before. Based upon the information which gathered, Noah’s Ark does exist on Mount Ararat also known as Mount Judi by some Muslim scholars. It has been preserved all of these years by the hand of God and exists the ice fields on Ararat. No 155 You know you’re a good Lumberjock, when your boat is still around 4,000 – 5,000 years after you built it. |
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1002 days ago |
That’s funny Obi… just be ‘Cos. -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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999 days ago |
#156 You might be a Lumberjock if you make a cut list for a project you will never build and think you are having fun. |
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999 days ago |
#157 You might be a lumberjock if you think sharpening a wooden pencil is considered woodworking |
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996 days ago |
No. 158 You just might be a Lumberjock when you use a work bench as a kitchen table, or a kitchen table as a work bench. |
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992 days ago |
No. 159 You know you’re a Lumberjock when all of the wood pieces in your home have been altered. |
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992 days ago |
Or is that when you have made all the wood pieces in your home? -- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com |
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992 days ago |
either, or both, I’d say. I’m (eventually) stripping all the painted wood surfaces in my home (baseboards, maybe the doors) revealing some great looking oldgrowth pine. One door in progress, which is oak, might have to repaint that one as there is over a century’s worth of dents, dings, from mild to severe. One door has a crack in a raised panel that you can see through! that somebody tried to cover with layers of poor paint jobs. -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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989 days ago |
No. 160 you know you’re a lumberjock when you use your Shop Apron when you BBQ |
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989 days ago |
No. 161 you know you’re a lumberjock when you drive past your favorite wood store . . . . you salute and reverently encourage any others in the car to do the same. -- Making sawdust is what I do best |
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988 days ago |
No. 162 You know you are a LumberJock, when all of your woodworking friends send messages of encourgement and prayers when you are sick or ill. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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988 days ago |
No. 163 You know you are a Lumberjock when your Christmas list that you give to your wife consists of your favorite woodworkers catalog with appropriate pages dog-eared and the desired items circled… No. 164 You know you are a Lumberjock when your in-laws say “thank you for the shelf” with a gift card to your favorite woodworkers supply store :-) No. 165 You know you are a Lumberjock when you would rather be in the shop working than watching a game on TV. No. 166 You know you are a Lumberjock when you take the doors from the microwave cart you built your inlaws, to fix that minor defect that no one else knows is there because it bugs you the 6 times a year that you see it. No. 167 You know you are a Lumberjock when you find that you just spent your entire lunchtime reading this list and coming up with your own to add :-) -- Brandon, Maine, www.maineweddingtrellis.com |
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987 days ago |
No. 168: You know you’re a lumberjock when you start off trying to make advanced level projects in a brand new medium, rather than take baby steps. (and manage to do a good job of it.) Well I could build a doghouse, but I think I’ll try making a 3 story Barn first and see how that goes…” -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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987 days ago |
This is in reply to Dennis’ telling me I had nice legs. No. 169 You know you’re a lumberjock when you as a forum full of men “You want to see my legs”? |
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987 days ago |
Nice Legs Obi! |
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983 days ago |
This Guy IS a Lumberjock |
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982 days ago |
I wonder if he made it out of “scraps” :) (oh and re: # 169—add “chests” to the list. ) -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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982 days ago |
One way to get yourself a motorcycle.. -- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com |
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982 days ago |
Most frames have a VIN# stamped into or attached to them. I wonder if this guy had to register the frame. |
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982 days ago |
Wonder if the state would consider it street legal… -- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com |
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982 days ago |
(True Story) #170? You might be a lumberjock when the wife comes out to the shop after seeing you pull a broken, discolored and ratty woven seat ladderback chair from the trunk of the car (which you picked up off the curb in front of someone’s house) and asks, “What in the world are you going to do with that?!” And you respond, “Well, in about three days you’re going to come out here and say, “Oh, I want that now!” And it happens! -- Paul, Texas |
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982 days ago |
oh yah :) -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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982 days ago |
#171 – You know you’re a lumberjock when you drive miles out of your way to go around the local Woodcraft cause every time you drive by it you just KNOW you’re going to pull in, look around… and buy something you don’t need. -- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt. |
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982 days ago |
#172 – You know you’re a lumberjock when you think you just may need counceling for ummm, being a lumberjock. -- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt. |
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982 days ago |
by the way, I can’t go work now because I just read every one of these and I can’t see straight. I was thinking I should do more curved pieces though… hmmmm -- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt. |
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982 days ago |
poor Chip :( #173: You know you’re a lumberjock when you finally get caught up with all the projects and blogs and, before you log off, you refresh the “feel the pulse” one last time in case someone has posted something while you were reading the last entry. And they have. -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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982 days ago |
debbie, stop it. Really… I MUST GET BACK TO WORK! – laughs -- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt. |
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982 days ago |
hehehehe dang.. there goes another one!! -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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982 days ago |
ah hello.. anyone out there?? It’s been 2 minutes and I have nothing to read!! -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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982 days ago |
Paul,... #170 ? only three days? You must have already earned your first chip ;) -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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982 days ago |
That happened to me |
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982 days ago |
My first chip? I’m a newbie. What’s that mean? -- Paul, Texas |
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982 days ago |
I think deb made it as an AA reference, over on Todd’s blog, I’m getting lost in the conversation… I mean, lost as in where it’s taking place, over the various posts. Aha! #174: You know you’re a lumberjock when you have more “conversations” here, than everywhere else throughout the day. -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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982 days ago |
You just might be a lumberjock if you talk more in the LJ forum than you do to people you can touch? I used to be a chatter, because I spent more time in a chat room than I did in the real world (trw), and I knew more chatters that I’d met in person than I did anywhere else, to and including my work place. |
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982 days ago |
Number 176, You might be a LumberJock when you prefer www.Lumberjock.com over any other web site. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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979 days ago |
Number 177 – You might be a Lumberjock when you care as must about the details of how a project is done as to how it looks when complete. -- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com |
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977 days ago |
Number 178 – You might be a LumberJock if your wish list on the Rockler, Woodcraft, and Amazon web sites have in excess of 10 items each. -- Jeff, St. Paul, MN |
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977 days ago |
Number 179 – You might be a LumberJock if you can successfully read your Eagle America router bit catalog while watching a movie with your wife. And, manage to not be distracted by the strange looks and eye rolling. -- Jeff, St. Paul, MN |
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977 days ago |
I hope no one said this already but number 180 you might be a lumber jock if someone asks where you bought the majority of furniture in your house and you respond that you got it from the local lumber mill. Some assembly was required though.
number 181- If you have hand drawn plans of more than 10 furniture projects in your home.
Sincerely, -- James Clark |
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977 days ago |
#181 you know you’re a lumberjock when things go missing from the rest of the house and miraculously end up in the shop (things such as dish cloths, makeup brushes, and pie plates) -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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977 days ago |
Debbie, was the make-up brush used to spread glue? I use a drain screen to sift my sawdust for wood filler…simply mix the same kind of sawdust as the wood you’re using and mix it with Tite-bond II wood glue for a great filler, that matches the wood you’re using. (Most old school Lumberjocks already know that though) |
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977 days ago |
ah hah—and I knew that one too!!!! :D :D :D make-up brush: lots of purposes. Limited only by the lack of creative thinking!! :) -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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977 days ago |
#182 You may be a lumberjock if you see a newbie log into the site and realize that his shop is close to a relative and get excited enough about it to invite yourself over to check it out… (Dr.Sawdust has relatives in my area and he is totally welcome to come by (I am excited about it) ) as soon as it is finished. -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
#183 You may be a lumberjock when you have a list of tools to buy for a new shop that is 5 years old and you have switched by crossing out and listing a new one… Jointer models once per year for 5 years Powermatic, Delta, Jet, Grizzley, Powermatic…. -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
#184 You may be a lumberjock when you need a ladder for the kiddies to get back into the boat and you immediatly start making plans for that left over Ipe to be turned into the ladder while your spouse goes in the house and finds an aluminum one online for $40 and ruins your plans for an all day Saturday project and you are disappointed. -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
#185 You may be a lumberjock whey you drag friends from the office and disinterested spouses over to the computer to see Marc’s latest wood whisperer episode because you think he is so funny! -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
#186 You may be a lumberjock if you have thought multiple times about how to get true 3 phase power into the home shop and perhaps even priced it out. -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
#187 You may be a lumberjock when you debate the pros and cons of new not yet released woodworking tools with buddies on line when neither of you have actually touched any of the models in question. -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
#187 You may be a lumberjock when you know how to find any tool on timberlinetools.com, leevalley.com or grizzley.com in 3 mouse clicks as you are that familiar with their web interface. -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
The next one is #190…. Jim posted 180 and 181 in the same post and we seem to have miscounted since…. been a while since the last “audit”... ;) Just when you think this list is just about as complete as it can get… lo and behold another spurt of good ones! -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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977 days ago |
#190 You know you are a lumberjock when you build electrical drops into the new shops ceiling for your tools that you do not yet own and know the amperage requirements each spot will need. -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
#191 You know you are a lumberjock when you figure out how to mill your own mouldings for your home and spend more on the tools to do so by a factor of 3-4 than just buying the stuff would have cost. -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
#192 You may be a lumberjock when every time you run into a solid wood door it takes you 3 minutes to go through the thing as you check out whether they used quarter sawn or rift sawn lumber, the joinery, did they alternate grains on the glue up, what type of router set they used or did they have a shaper? And in your head you calculated how you could build the same thing, cost and time investment. -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
#193 You may be a lumberjock when you have made some item of clothing or personal ornamentation (a stick pin carved or inlayed) Belt Buckle, Hat, Pen Holder, etc out of lumber for yourself or someone in the family (Ebony broach with mother of pearl inlays here for my mom years ago) -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
#194 You may be a lumberjock when you have a solid hardwood piece of furniture you need to get rid of on craigslist or to a relative and you spend as much time sizing up the future owner as you would someone looking to take a puppy from you as you want it to go to a good home. -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
#195 You may be a lumberjock if you own electronics or car parts that have broken and been re fabricated/repaired from wood by yourself. -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
#196 You may be a lumberjock if your kids use titebond 2 for paper crafts instead of elmers. -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
#197 You may be a lumberjock if you have router tables or workbenches that are nicer peices of furniture than 90% of the people on your block have for furniture in their homes. -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
WOW … Drew’s been here 1 day and I get the feeling he just might be a Lumberjock |
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977 days ago |
So, Drew… are you glad to be here or what? |
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977 days ago |
#198 You may be a lumberjock if you can explain to real estate clients what the Janka hardness scale is I.E. why cherry is not a good wood for wood floors and can tell them why there are better woods than alder for cabinetry if they have small children who may be climbing drawer pulls to get to the candy on high shelves. -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
#199 You may be a lumberjock when you have fishing lures you have carved yourself and know which woods work for floating and which woods work best for sinking baits. -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
#200 You know you are a lumberjock when your honey would rather you wore gloves to bed than to allow you to touch her with your scratchy rough hands! -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
Thats it for tonite…. I am glad to be here… gotta go get the kids to bed and find some soft gloves… He He… -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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977 days ago |
#201 you know you are a lumberjock when you sit here for 30min reading all the reasons you might be a lumberjock!!!!!!!As i did -- Phil, Chattanooga,TN |
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977 days ago |
#202 you know you might be a lumber jock when you walk by a pallet at work 3 times trying to figure out “A” how to get it home and “B” what you could make out of the wood. -- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov |
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976 days ago |
this is too hilarious. Well done everyone. -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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976 days ago |
drew not only are you a lumberjock you may need some professional help.just kidding -- Phil, Chattanooga,TN |
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976 days ago |
You look at a tree and you think: ‘How many six-board chests could I make from that?’ John (UK) -- Working fast helps you to arrive at your mistakes in spectacular fashion. (Me 2009!) |
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976 days ago |
#203 You may be a lumberjock when you sit in a pew at church and try to calculate the board feet needed to make a pew and then to make all the pews… -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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975 days ago |
hahah Drew.. I think you are supposed to be listening to the Minister!!! hahah -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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975 days ago |
#204 You may be a lumberjock when you think it is a good idea to drive 13 plus hours to pick up a bunch of tree trunks… -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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971 days ago |
#205 You might be a lumberjock if you wondered where this post went becase you had not see it for a few days. -- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov |
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971 days ago |
#206 This was from Chip when I gave him time between our houses. He said you might be a LumberJock when you say how far you live from Woodcraft, Rockler etc. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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971 days ago |
Darn it Karson, I just came in here to add that. lol. (He’s a Lumberjock AND he’s quick) -- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt. |
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971 days ago |
Well I gave you credit. LOL -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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970 days ago |
No 207. You might be a Lumberjock if… Someone mentions a name and you immediately assume that the person mentioned is ALSO a Lumberjock. No 208. You might be a Lumberjock if … Only fellow Lumberjocks are real people and all others are a figment of your imagination or fictisious characters |
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969 days ago |
Well, except for Sam, Norm and a few others, I think you’re right! -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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969 days ago |
#209 You know you’re a LumberJock when… you get pieces of sawdust in your bread dough!! -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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969 days ago |
I’m curious. Can this go on forever or at some point will the whole site explode? Oh, funny sight… hundreds of Lumberjocks laying all over the place, dazed, dioriented. Too funny. -- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt. |
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969 days ago |
(and you’d know they were LumberJocks – they’d be the ones laying al over, dazed and disoriented!) -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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969 days ago |
#210 – You know you are a lumberjock when you try to persuade your neighbor to trim his trees so you can get some extra wood. -- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com |
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969 days ago |
No 211 You know you’re a Lumberjock when you’re laying all over dazed and disoriented covered with sawdust and think “It don’t get no better than this.” |
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969 days ago |
you’re so funny Obi. lol @ Bill… My eyes are constantly scanning trees now to see if a branch needs to come down – or the whole tree! -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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969 days ago |
trust me… take down the whole tree |
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968 days ago |
No 212 You know you’re a Lumberjock when you gauge the need for a haircut by how tangled your hair gets in the strap of your dustmask. -- Chelle http://artsgranddaughter.blogspot.com |
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968 days ago |
No 213… you know you’re a lumberjock when your spouse can tell your new “haircolor” by species… don’t use the white towels! -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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968 days ago |
No 214: You know you’re a Lumberjock when you finally get to join Debbie, Obi, Karson, Dick and Don in the 1000 post club (even though you’ve been a member longer than some of them) – and are comfortable knowing you’ll likely never make it back into the top five again – too many new jocks to keep up, too much to do in the shop… but I’m still gonna blog about all of it! -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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968 days ago |
No 215 You know you’re a Lumberjock when your main claim to fame is “I was Number 1…Once”, and it really doesnt bother you that you may never be there again. I think Debbie has it for keeps, Now. |
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968 days ago |
haven’t you noticed how quiet I’ve been??? i’ll pass the hat—anytime!! -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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968 days ago |
I was thinking that her 100 comments (Canadian) would be about, what, 76 American? Still has her in the lead though. ;) As a follow up to #215… No 216…. when your project once had the most views (thanks to the first LJ contest – even with Marks Awesome Maloof inspired rockingchair in the mix), and you didn’t come close to winning! -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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967 days ago |
#217 You might be a lumberjock your eagerly reading posts at 3:06 AM. -- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov |
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967 days ago |
Scott – you are too funny. I think my must be right re: US/ Canadian conversion. Hmmm I wonder how that affects measurements on plans?? !!! -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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967 days ago |
#218 You might be a lumberjock if your commenting on Nicole’s nice legs and you genuinely mean her spindlework. -- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov |
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967 days ago |
#219 You know you are a Lumberjock when you have more tools than shop space. #220 You know you are a lumberjock when you have more wood than storage space. -- Greg - Charles Town, WV |
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967 days ago |
#221 You know your a Lumberjock when you refinish your table to match the color of your holiday decorations. Green stain rocks! -- What would Marc do? |
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967 days ago |
#222 You might be a lumberjock when you think masking tape is just band-aids on a roll! |
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967 days ago |
Did you just do that Dennis? |
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965 days ago |
I was inspired! |
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965 days ago |
You migh be a Lumberjock if you are new here and take the time to read all these post in this thread. -- JohnShackleford,North Carolina |
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965 days ago |
Way to go Shack, getting in the groove already. -- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com |
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965 days ago |
#223- You might be a lumberjock if you can only count to 9. #224 If you prefer to scrape frost from your windshield in 5 degree winter weather so you can use your side of a 2 car garage as a shop, you might be a lumberjock. #225 If a sign that says “FREE WOOD” causes heart palpitations, disorientation, and near auto accidents, you might be a lumberjock. (most people see that see reading “FREE JUNK”) #226 “Sawdust is one of the 4 food groups, isn’t it?” That’s right, you guessed it, your a LJ ShawnH, East Wenatchee, Wa -- ShawnH "A little knowledge is a tool for disaster." Chinese porverb |
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964 days ago |
#227 If you live in “Lumberton, MS”..... -- Jimmy |
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964 days ago |
#228 You know you are a lumberjock when you are step-perfect with the ‘Sawdust and Shavings Shuffle’ each time you go back indoors. If you didn’t learn it, you would be brained by the distaff side of the household. John UK -- Working fast helps you to arrive at your mistakes in spectacular fashion. (Me 2009!) |
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964 days ago |
#229….when you stand out in the pouring rain spreading sawdust onto the ground to prevent plants from growing in a certain area. -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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964 days ago |
OK, I think I’m figuring out how this blog/forum stuff works. A couple of days ago I came up with: What number are we up to at this point? About 300? Anyway, this one came to me yesterday in the shop. You know you’re a lumber jock when you drop a chisel and as you catch it, by the blade of course, you think three things; (1) “thank God I didn’t chip the blade”, (2) ””at least I didn’t bleed on this work” and (3) “wow, that cut is so clean I won’t even need stitches!!” —JWB -- JWB |
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964 days ago |
haha @ chip the blade. -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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964 days ago |
#2—IF you check back every 2 minutes to see if someone thought your post was funny, you might be a lumberjock. #2—If you have only been a member for 3 days and have posted more here than on all your other boards(including those for work) , you might be a lumberjock. -- ShawnH "A little knowledge is a tool for disaster." Chinese porverb |
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964 days ago |
#2—If the term boards for work made you laugh or scratch your head, you might be a LJ. -- ShawnH "A little knowledge is a tool for disaster." Chinese porverb |
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964 days ago |
No 234. You might be a Lumberjock if you get the Sunday paper just for ads on Furniture you can make, or |
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964 days ago |
No. 235 – You might be a Lumberjock when you burn your breakfast in the morning because you just wanted one more quick peek at the site and lost track of time. -- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com |
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964 days ago |
#236 ou might be a Lumberjock if you laugh out loud at the jokes because they are true and you’ve done them yourself. -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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963 days ago |
You know that you’re a lumberjock when you can tell how many tools you’ve sharpened this week by the number of bald spots on your forearms – or legs if that’s how you check your edge. Or …. I’d better stop there. -- JWB |
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963 days ago |
Ooh, good one JWB…. to continue on that line of thinking: #238, you havn’t bought a razor in years, because you’re sharpening skills are that good! (which despite the picture… ain’t me;) -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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952 days ago |
239 You Know you are a lumberjock when you schedule an operation 6 weeks out in order to finish a few more projects in the shop! -- Greg - Charles Town, WV |
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952 days ago |
priorities, huh?? Assuming the operation is/was for you – I hope everything is well -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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950 days ago |
No 240 You know you’re a Lumberjock when you refuse to schedule an operation cause you don’t have the time to sit in a hospital and recover. |
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950 days ago |
Good one Obi…the thought had crossed my mind, but two things. First my shoulder hurts like the dikkens and second, the Dr said the longer I wait, the more damage is caused. Debbie, its not too serious. I dislocated my shoulder a couple times in the army and as a result, I tore the cartilage in my shoulder, now its completly torn in tow and has slipped down into the joint. he’’s going in and staple it back up. should only be down a couple of months thats if i didn’t mess anything else : ) -- Greg - Charles Town, WV |
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950 days ago |
you’re due for a break…call it vacation time and spend your spare time (recovery) at Lumberjocks.com and looking for future projects. |
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950 days ago |
Greg… sure, not too bad… until you describe it. Rest well (or work on becoming ambidexterous :) -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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950 days ago |
#241 You know you are a lumbejock when you shop for a new vehical based on the amount of wood it can carry, not on the gas milage it gets. -- Greg - Charles Town, WV |
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940 days ago |
#242 You know you are a Lumberjock when you go through withdrawls when the Lumberjocks wesite crashes. #243 You know you are a Lumberjock when you check every 5 minutes to see if the Lumberjocks website is back up after it crashes. -- remember always measure once and cut twice |
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940 days ago |
#244 You know you are a Lumberjock when you start planting trees….After, already having planned out the kitchen cabinets you’re going to build once they become fully grown trees…...(I should live so long!) None-the-less ——> Guilty! :-) -- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood, |
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940 days ago |
#245 You know you are a lumberjock when you call another LumberJock and talk for an hour because you are having withdrawal symptoms because your favorite web site is down. Thanks for calling JockMike2. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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940 days ago |
#246 _You know your a Lumberjock when you go out to kick the neighbors cat when the website is down. Then you remember, The neighbor doesn’t even own have a cat._ -- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1 |
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939 days ago |
I have to apologize for my last entry, -- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1 |
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939 days ago |
It never crossed my mind that you would kick a cat.. -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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939 days ago |
I didn’t suffer any withdrawals at all… I talked to Debbie via Instant messenger… you ALL should have at least one Lumberjock on instant messenger… saves long distance charges |
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909 days ago |
When you wake up at 5:30 am, and the first thought you have is: “how long can I wait this morning to have a soda pop before I have to admit that I’m an addict…..and….I wonder if I have any new “Lumberjock Notifier” emails!” -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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908 days ago |
#247 I agree with Obi – You know you are a Lumberjock when you have Debbie in your Instant Messenger… and believe me it’s a lot of fun ;) -- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka |
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908 days ago |
#248 You know you are a Lumberjock when you buy something in our LJ woodworking store each month (shameless plug I admit LOL) -- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka |
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908 days ago |
hahaha you know you are a saleman when …..... you post a #248 lol!! -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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907 days ago |
#249 You know your a lumber jock when you spend $500 on wood and new tools to complete a project for your wife that you could have just bought for $75 at the local furniture store. |
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907 days ago |
#250 You know you’re a lumberjock when early in your marriage your non-woodworking spouse had nothing but praise, and oooos and ahhhhs. for everything you built Yet, instead of enjoying and accepting the praise, you trained a critic. You would say, “Thanks, but I’m not happy about this . . . ” And you would point out a joint with a 1/16” gap or a blem in the finish in an out-of-the-way spot or a dried glue spot you missed that didn’t take stain or point out a barely visible repair that covered a mistake. And now . . . you invite your spouse to the shop for a consult on a particular point and you receive several “extra” insghts. “Did you see this?” (Yes, dear) “What happened here?” (Explanation) “Hmmmmm?” (What? A kiss on the cheek as your spouse departs. "I'm sorry dear, but you trained me!" "Yes my love, I trained you!" -- Paul, Texas |
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905 days ago |
No. 251 (never thought it would get this high of a count!) “when you work to 3:30am on a project to meet a tight deadline, and before you go to bed, you stop and check to see if any has commented on any of projects, blog, or forum topics!” There used to be a day here on this site when a jock could post a new project and it would stay up on the front page of the projects for a few days. Now, it is gone in a matter of hours! Isn’t it great, keep posting!! Mark -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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905 days ago |
Comment: What do you mean hours, now it’s minutes. -- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1 |
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905 days ago |
Wow! That’s a read and a half! LOL -- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato) |
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892 days ago |
No. 252 you might be a lumber jock if your “Dream Home” is above the shop |
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892 days ago |
Glad to hear you got your loft in! |
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892 days ago |
Actually, Dennis, I just got started. I’ve built three floor joists and tomorrow go get more material. And straps, and work on my next router table, and continue working on the cabinet doors for the church cabinets, and keep cleaning the shop and finding a place for everything so I can put everything in it’s place. |
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891 days ago |
#253 “If even the suit you wear to weddings and funerals has a little glue spot on it” -- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music"" |
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891 days ago |
oh say it isn’t so !!!! lol -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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891 days ago |
#254…(?) If you know Obi’s or Mot’s real name?? -- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood, |
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891 days ago |
#255 if you don’t recognize an outside e-mail or phone call from a fellow jock, as you only think of them my thier nickname. -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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891 days ago |
#256…if you map out your vacations so you get a chance to drop in on a couple of lumberjocks and talk shop…isn’t Kansas on the way to California from Idaho? |
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891 days ago |
#257…If you order a pizza by the board foot. -- RonR, Massachusetts |
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891 days ago |
#258…If the lint filter on your clothes dryer turns out craft size sheets of 1/2” particle board -- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music"" |
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844 days ago |
People were asking about posts with the most replies. I know this is one of them. Also, it might be fun to read if your new to the site. -- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov |
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844 days ago |
#259…If you can’t wait until your wife leaves so you can hop on lumberjack.com -- A man who moves mountains starts one stone at a time. |
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842 days ago |
#260…You come home from work and the kids find you still in a suit and tie in front of the workbench covered in shavings a half an hour later… -- -- Matt Sanfilippo, Pittsburgh, Pa., www.intheworkshop.info |
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842 days ago |
Matt…you been peeking into my shop….? How did you know? -- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood, |
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842 days ago |
And talking to my wife. -- A man who moves mountains starts one stone at a time. |
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842 days ago |
funny….wives don’t seem to understand that woodworking in dress cloths is necessary sometimes… My shop apron fits just fine over my dress pants and white shirt. -- -- Matt Sanfilippo, Pittsburgh, Pa., www.intheworkshop.info |
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841 days ago |
oh you men!!!! -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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841 days ago |
#261…. If you wake up at 5 AM and lay there petting your dog while you figure out the sequence to assemble the project waiting in the shop then go to work at 6 AM so you don’t forget. -- Thos. Angle |
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824 days ago |
#263…If you find your self dumpster diveing for wood to reclaim. -- bryano |
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822 days ago |
264…if your wife refuses to go shopping with you any more because you always say you can make a better version of what she likes and point out the faults to her. 265…when you spend ten times what it is worth in gas just going there and back to get a good deal on a piece of wood and don’t understand why your wife is displeased. 266…whenever a stranger asks for directions you use all the local lumber stores as navigational markers. 267…when at Christmas you are more excited about the presents that you made for your family than they are. 268…when you are hoping that this year your wife will hide tools instead of easter eggs even though the kids still aren’t out of the house yet. -- Ed, Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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822 days ago |
269…if you wear your lumberjock t-shirt to bed every night. 270…when your wife goes to get you some clean clothes and sees that all you have are lumberjock t-shirts. By the way if you come up with a best 10 taken from this list and put them on a lumberjock t-shirt I will definitely be interested in purchasing one. -- Ed, Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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822 days ago |
271 – when you spend your free time thinking of new things to add to the “You know you are a Lumberjock” list. -- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com |
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822 days ago |
I can’t add much to the list, but will share my reaction to a friend’s story at work this morning. Apparently he had some trees near electrical wires that needed to come down. As he was telling the story he said, “There was this black walnut …” At that point I stopped hearing what he was saying and waited patiently for him to finish his silly story so that I could ask him if I could have the wood. A little insenitive, maybe, but black walnut is rather dear round here. -- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last. |
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822 days ago |
That would be number 272 I think. Did you get the wood? -- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com |
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822 days ago |
He promised to bring the logs tomorrow. Then I’ll need to get it sliced and then wait for it to dry . . . the anticipation . . . -- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last. |
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811 days ago |
273 – You know 15/64” when you see it. -- Dave J. Oakdale, MN |
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811 days ago |
This is true. I know I’m a Lumberjock because the other day I was driving the wife’s car and passed the road crews while they were taking down a 100 year old Maple tree, and I was wondering if there was a way to get that 5’ piece of 3’wide log in her trunk to take home. Really. -- Bob Vila would be so proud of you! |
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811 days ago |
274 if while at work cuting down Diseased you think to your self “yea this tree smell terible but mabey just mabey i could make some pens out of some of this tree” it could happin p.s. i work for the state of minneasota hiway department at least once a week i have this thought while cutting down one tree or another :( -- I buy tools so i can make more money,so ican buy more tools so I can work more, to make more money, so I can buy more tool, so I can work more |
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811 days ago |
275 – You had to recut that 15/64” piece. And you bought a caliper. -- Dave J. Oakdale, MN |
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811 days ago |
276 – you’re looking at the 5/4ths pine stock at the big box, (cause you need a pice of 1” thick trim to match the old (OLD) trim on your house…. and you can tell the whole lot is really 5/4ths, and not an inch as you’d expect. – which makes the (3/4”) 1x’s look mighty thin indeed! -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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810 days ago |
#277 you know you’re a lumberjock when: once you get here… you are welcomed by other lumberjocks with open arms. ”then after inviting more people to join you here -- whoever invented the hole... knew nothing. |
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810 days ago |
#288 – When even your wife starts to point out bits of wood in dumpsters. -- We Mackem and Tackem. |
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808 days ago |
289 -- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever |
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807 days ago |
#290- Your dog might be a lumbermutt if he doesnt even flinch when you turn on the 10’ saw he is sleeping under. #291-your dog may be a lumbermutt if his fleas build condos out of the sawdust on him. #292-your dog may be a lumbermutt if he has chewed on some of the rarest wood in the world. (tiny tiny pieces mind you) -- "That Government is Best that Governs The Least."-Jefferson |
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807 days ago |
#293-You might be a lumberjock if by ‘clean’ you mean less sawdusty than usual. #293-you might be a lumberjock if you can’t sleep because you know in the morning you will finish your most challenging project yet. (430am my time right now) #294-you might be a lumberjock if you actually considered naming one of your children Delta or Bosch, but didnt hesitate at all naming your dog Porter-Cable! -- "That Government is Best that Governs The Least."-Jefferson |
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807 days ago |
all tooo funny!! lol -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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807 days ago |
Hmmmm. Might have to name my next dog DeWalt. -- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov |
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807 days ago |
#295 You might be a LumberJock if SWMBO can use the tools in your shop during a fight to justify any purchase she desires. -- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov |
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807 days ago |
#296 You cut a huge gash in your thumb with a chisel and instead of being concerned about the blood spilling from the wound, you’re proud that you honed the chisel to razor-sharp. At least the cut will heal faster! -- Pat Mulry, Dallas, Texas || www.lonestarpokertables.com |
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807 days ago |
#297 You may be a lumberjock if all your good clothes end up as shop/work clothes within a year of buying them due to that one more thing in the shop before running to work… -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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807 days ago |
#298 You may be a lumberjock if the sign reading “Timberline Woodworking Supply Not Responsible For Any Marital Discord Tools Purchased At The Store May Cause!” actually gives you pause at checkout… -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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807 days ago |
#299 You may be a lumberjock if your spouse thinks your new 8 inch spiral head parallelogram jointer cost less than $400… -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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807 days ago |
#300 You may be a lumberjock if you carefully timed your 300th post to Lumberjocks.com to coincide with the 300th reason you may be a lumberjock… -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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807 days ago |
I don’t have a reason other than to say – I love you guys….in a friendship heterosexual way~! Someone please sponsor a big get together so I can prove to my wife that there are others like me out there!! -- Dan in Central Oklahoma, Able to turn good wood into saw dust in the blink of an eye! |
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807 days ago |
Sounds like #302 to me Dano… I just needed to “fix” the count, as Christopher doublecounted a few back so lets give him #301… Drew still has his 300, as he put up the 299th which really was (as best we can keep track) – Wasn’t gonna take your 300/300 away from you there Drew! #303 you’re in the 2000+ club, and it never even seemed like an accomplishment (even though 100 and 200 did) What, with Deb coming in at nearly triple that….. (and with logging all those miles to boot) -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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807 days ago |
#304, you really didn’t expect the list to get this long… and now wonder how much longer it will get – knowing it may never stop! -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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806 days ago |
Congrats, Drew, on the 300/300. (I’m just lucky that I sit at my computer a lot for my other job… so I can check in frequently without looking like an addict running to the computer whenever I can) -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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805 days ago |
#305 You might be a lumberjock if you have your wife cut your hair, so you can spend the money on tools. -- Robb |
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805 days ago |
#306. You can and do regale visitors with the history and relationship of each and every piece of scrap you put on the fire, including showing them the exact place it was taken from on the piece you cut it from. Rob |
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805 days ago |
#307 On Wednesdays you go shopping and have buttered scones for tea! Rob |
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805 days ago |
lol Rob.. 307 is extra funny -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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805 days ago |
Oh no, here comes the song again! -- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com |
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801 days ago |
#308 you talk the missus into a remodel so that you can redo the bathroom with heated tile floors (moisture proof board warmer), a large steam shower (hermetically sealed lumber steamer), jacuzzi (soaking tub with agitators), and that bidet (low sink)... -- whoever invented the hole... knew nothing. |
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801 days ago |
(Don’t let her see that post… she will start thinking about the bathroom sitting full of lumber and decide she likes it better as is…) -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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801 days ago |
You run out of room and start storing scraps on the stairway to your shop. |
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801 days ago |
that was 309, which sounds a lot like #310 in my house: -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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801 days ago |
isn’t it amazing how something sits in a place for a short time and miraculously you no longer see it -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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796 days ago |
311: You have built wood racks, to hold approximately 10,000 board feet of walnut, cherry, cedar, red oak, and white oak that you have accumulated and you have logs outside waiting to be sawed into lumber (cypress, cedar, pecan & cherry) and all of a sudden yoiu decide to build small decorative boxes. On top of that, you go online and order sugar pine and maple for your next two boxes. |
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784 days ago |
312: You know you’re a Lumberjock when you suffer a MAJOR panic attack when your wife calls you at work and says, “Don’t bother getting kindling for the fireplace, I found some in your shop”. -- Dave Idaho |
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784 days ago |
313: You know you are a lumberjock when you have upgraded/replaced a tool you have never used… (well used a couple of times) -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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784 days ago |
314: You know you are a lumberjock when you accept banner ads for your new woodworking forum from Vonage because you know the guys/gals on your site would be particularly interested in the free router deal with a new account! -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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784 days ago |
#315: “You can’t figure out why the neighbor lady slapped you. sorry, -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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784 days ago |
#316: ... when you suffer a MAJOR panic attack when a fellow LumberJock says that the wife said, “Don’t bother getting kindling for the fireplace, I found some in your shop” -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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784 days ago |
#317: You might be a LumberJock when your wife or SO has learned exactly what to tell you NOT to do when she wants something simple and fast. “I don’t care what its made of, Don’t plane it, don’t joint it. Don’t even sand it if you don’t have to. Don’t stain it. Just grab one of your million boards and cut it up and turn it into some shelves for the shed.” Bonus: You might be a slightly evil LumberJock if after you notice all that lovely hardwood her current kitchen is made of, you switch into critic mode and “help” your boss’s wife decide to get her kitchen remodelled, and then seal the deal by offering to tear down the “old stuff” for her….. And then get paid overtime for it by your boss. |
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784 days ago |
#318 You might be a LumberJock if your SO can by the sound coming out of the shop not only tell what kind of power tool you are using at any one time, but can tell which of them you are using, and what your using that tool means. |
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783 days ago |
hahhaah #317 has me laughing – still … -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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765 days ago |
You might be a LumberJock if … #318: You’ve been talked into a remodeling project, so you call the big orange home improvement store and try to order the studs as “400 BF of 8/4 Fir” #319: You assume the silence on the other end means they are looking up the price #320: When the 8/4 Fir arrives you dig through the pile for any “interesting pieces” #321: You consider taking the boards with the worst twist and wayne -- http://www.north40custom.com -- http://north40studios.etsy.com -- |
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765 days ago |
hmmm … #321 should have ended with ”... out to the shop for a few passes on the jointer” -- http://www.north40custom.com -- http://north40studios.etsy.com -- |
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764 days ago |
#322: You know you’re a lumberjock if you meet the wood spirit in a chunk of maple and instantly think of the poetic way Frank would have described the encounter :) -- --==[ Pappy ]==-- |
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762 days ago |
#323 If you rebuild the bench on your deck and save the wood because you just know, hmmmm, someday i can use this for something…you could be a lumberjock. -- Brad,--"The way to eat an eliphant is one bite at a time" |
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762 days ago |
#324 Your sitting in front of your computer, reading a long list of posts – because after all, it is wood related, AND while reading and posting to Lumber Jocks you are watching recorded Router Workshop shows – and it’s 1:00 a.m. on a Saturday night! -- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/ |
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762 days ago |
Mark, this post that you started may just have set a record for views/replies – what ya think? -- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/ |
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761 days ago |
Cajunpen: I have enjoyed watching this topic develop over the past 511 days since I started it. I’ve watched all of the posts, and seeing that in almost everyone one of them, I have identified myself, as a Lumberjock. We seem to all be cut from the same tree, so to speak. Thanks for enjoyment, -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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758 days ago |
#325 … when you are checking out what’s on TV, see a program called “Domino” and you think it is a show on woodworking. -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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745 days ago |
#326 …When you cry, because you really do not have room for the serviceable, reclaimed Utile, offered by a neighbour. #327… When you look at a mighty oak and ask, ‘How many tables and chairs could I make from that?’ #328… When, without being warned by the Lady, you do the ‘sawdust dance’ on the doormat before stepping into the house. -- Working fast helps you to arrive at your mistakes in spectacular fashion. (Me 2009!) |
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745 days ago |
If cleaning out the inside of your truck requires a first step of blowing it out with an air hose. -- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music"" |
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745 days ago |
...cleaning anything requires an air hose! |
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745 days ago |
#329 YOU MIGHT BE A LUMBERJOCK IF YOU FEEL LIKE A FAILURE FOR HAVING LESS THAN 2000 POSTS |
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745 days ago |
quality, Obi.. quality, not quantity :) -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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745 days ago |
You might be a lumberjock if your dress shoes have sawdust on them -- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever |
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745 days ago |
Dennis’ entry didn’t get a number, so I’m jumping to … #332 – You insist on making a distinction between being “dusty” and “dirty” -- http://www.north40custom.com -- http://north40studios.etsy.com -- |
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745 days ago |
You might be a lumberjock if, no matter how many posts show up here, you can actually say “Boy, I’ve been there” to each and every one of them. -SST -- Accuracy is not in your power tool, it's in you |
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744 days ago |
331. When someone talks about a wireless router, you ‘correct’ them by saying, “No, that’s cordless router!” |
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744 days ago |
333. You think sharing a joint means two or more L Js doing a glue-up together. |
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744 days ago |
334. You think “logging on” must refer to some forestry activity. |
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744 days ago |
335. You suppose the Chairman of the Board must be in charge of the lumber. |
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744 days ago |
336. You guess a Federal Bureau is probably a style of bedroom furniture. ...And would like a set of plans so you can make one too. |
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744 days ago |
337. You have at least five magazine subscriptions with the word “wood” somewhere in the title. |
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744 days ago |
338. Everyone who buys you presents carefully chooses only things you could not make in your shop. ...Except tools, because they think you must have at least one of everything you could possibly need—but you don’t. |
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744 days ago |
339. You have at least one stray power tool in the living room at all times. |
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744 days ago |
Brad (#323): Jeff Foxworthy’s new theme might be “You might be a Liberal” and would probably start off something like: “If yew’ve caught more than three STDs they don’t yet have a name for, yew just mahght be a Lib’ral.” |
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744 days ago |
340. You think of Mixed Nuts as using Beechnut, Chestnut, and Walnut all in the same project. |
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744 days ago |
341. You haven’t bought a tool in the last thirty days and the store calls up just to make sure you’re okay. |
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744 days ago |
342. Your compost is made of vastly more wood shavings than grass clippings, and you have a very large yard. |
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744 days ago |
343 … you brush the sawdust from your hair because you don’t want to look like an old-rustic-wood-goat -- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever |
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744 days ago |
Woodwright. My wood chip pile With Mineral Popular on the left. Holly in the middle and Goncalo Alves on the right. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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744 days ago |
344 You might be a lumberjock if your family is completely used to having a project or 2 going on at all times in the house to the point where they comment on it in a negative way when they visit homes that dont… “daddy, why don’t the _’s take care of their house” (the house is immaculate, just no projects) -- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah |
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743 days ago |
#345 – You know the wood species of each of the splinters in your hands #346 – You realize you are about to sneeze and your first thought is to aim away from anything cast iron -- http://www.north40custom.com -- http://north40studios.etsy.com -- |
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743 days ago |
#347 you know the locations of all woodcrafts and rockler stores in a 250 mile radius -- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever |
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740 days ago |
you know you’re a lumberjock when you take the time to read all these posts. Lee -- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com |
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740 days ago |
349. When you spend $500 to build a shed just for wood scraps that are not even worth a fraction of the cost. -- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python |
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735 days ago |
Reading these posts has been a balm to my soul. I was going to refer to my favorites- but there were just too many. I can add one that I didn’t notice- it was posted on the woodworkingwomen site many years ago by a turner: -- "So much wood. . .so little time!" www.woodworks-by-donna.com |
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735 days ago |
You are right Danna I never thought of that. #352 You might be a LumberJock if you have sawdust and shavings in your Jock. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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735 days ago |
Donna, for safety reasons, I don’t wear a bra when I’m woodworking … -- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last. |
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735 days ago |
#353 If your feet and back hurt after 10 minutes of browsing in a clothing store, but you can stay on your feet 8 hours at a woodshow before feeling any real discomfort. -- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music"" |
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735 days ago |
#354 If your friends accuse you of wearing clothes designed by Norm Abrams. -- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music"" |
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735 days ago |
#355 you know you are lumberjock when your wife is a lumberjock too ! that right Peggy ? you a lumberjock ? -- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever |
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735 days ago |
#358… when you care enough about this string to note that we skipped a number a ways back, and had to keep reading (and reading) through to make sure the tally is right. We skipped Miles 20-30 or so back, and a miscount a bit before that. #359 when you know in your head that we’ve still had NO repeats after all this time! Wait a sec, I’m an artist not an accountant! -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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735 days ago |
#360…when you throw out the cardboard air freshener and carry actual cedar and pine boards in your vehicle so you can smell it when your driving. -- Kevin -- (http://www.furniturebykevin.com) |
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734 days ago |
#360 you might be a lumberjock if you are late for a morning staff meeting because you had to go to the lumberyard before work. #361 you might be a lumberjock when all the other ladies just grin, roll their eyes and say – yep that’s a Betsy thing. -- You can't get a hug from Facebook. |
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734 days ago |
#362 If you know the optimum height to build a vanity countertop to make whoopi on. :-) -- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music"" |
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734 days ago |
(Russel.. for safety reasons, I wear a bra when woodworking… lol) -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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733 days ago |
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733 days ago |
#365 You just might be a Lumberjock if you go buy a new pair of coveralls to keep the glue off of all of your clothing AFTER you have already gotten glue on all of your clothing |
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733 days ago |
O.K. I’M OFFICIAL. I WOKE UP AT 4:30 LOOKED AROUND A FEW WOOD SITES, WENT TO LJ AND POSTED AND THEN WENT BACK TO SLEEP AND DREAMED I WENT TO AUSTRALIA TO VISIT DON. I MUST BE A LUMBERJOCK |
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728 days ago |
#365: You leave a beautiful, fresh curl of wood from a hand plane on your wife’s pillow as a sign of your love for her. -- It takes a viking to raze a village. &mdash Blog'r: http://www.gradin.com |
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728 days ago |
#366: You and your friend say “the one who dies with most saws wins”. I’m not reading them all…sorry if this was done already. -- Odie, Confucius say, "He who laughs at one's self is BUTT of joke". http://woodstermangotwood.blogspot.com/ (my funny blog) |
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728 days ago |
#367 You might be a Lumberjock if you have a picture of your grandfathers workbench in your shop…or your grandfathers workbench. |
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728 days ago |
#368 you might be a lumberjock if you dream about tools. sometimes even daydream. -- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever |
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723 days ago |
#369 when you had your work shop in your kitchen and drilling a hole thru the project and your wife kitchen table. opps!!!! -- Todd from KY |
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723 days ago |
#370 when your kids ate there thanksgiving dinner on your work bench that was still in the kitchen and the table cloth that cover up the hole in the kitchen table. -- Todd from KY |
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722 days ago |
hahaha that’s funny -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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722 days ago |
371. You buy a double wheel grinder to sharpen. Then you buy a slow speed grinder to sharpen. Then you buy glass plates and sticky sandpaper to sharpen. Then you buy Norton waterstones and Veritas jigs to sharpen. Then you buy a WorkSharp 3000 to sharpen. And you don’t feel bad about any of it. (P.S. You still have the whole kaboodle) |
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721 days ago |
you know you’re surrounded by LJ’s when it takes five minutes for the “you know you’re a lumberjock when…. ” thread to load! ;) -- I've cut that board three times and it's still too short! |
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721 days ago |
and #372 – close enough is never really close enough -- I've cut that board three times and it's still too short! |
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721 days ago |
(that would be 373)... measure twice, cut once… (The loading comment is legit. Not everyone would wait!) -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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715 days ago |
374: You bookmatch your drawer bottoms. I didn’t think I could possibly think of one that hadn’t been posted, but there it is! -- Just another woodworker |
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715 days ago |
Thats just a good design criteria LOL -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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715 days ago |
#375 Just balancing the checkbook here:. there were two 365’s #376. This thread has become so important, that it just feels right to keep the count accurate, so we can continue to be in awe of how it’s grown – without doublespeak! Look what you started Mark… and look at all the e-mail notifications that have given you a grin or a chuckle! -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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715 days ago |
Love the 371 Rikkor – I recently picked up, and have yet to use my Veritas jig with my Diamond stones (which have seen some use)... But I can’t wait to pick-up the worksharp (and don’t feel guilty about wanting it either)! -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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710 days ago |
#376 . It`s bad when, Local contractors call to tell you they have scrap lumber that needs to be moved or local home supply saves cut offs in a bin for you . Or if driving down the road you stop at a new house being built not to look at house but to see if any scraps. -- Ageingwood - artsplae1@msn.com No time , retired |
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710 days ago |
that was #377 – and very funny – are you testing me know? ;) -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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709 days ago |
Scott, I’d say #375 is confirmation of #372 (close enough is never really close enough) you lumberjock! ;-) -- I've cut that board three times and it's still too short! |
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704 days ago |
#378. You may be a lumberjock if you have to watch the woodworking video a second time because you were fixated on the equipment in the background the first time. -- Dave, North Arkansas |
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703 days ago |
hahah that’s funny! -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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702 days ago |
Hey all new to the site and read all this in one sitting – its now 6 am… -- CaptnA - "When someone hurts you, write it in the sand so the winds of forgiveness will scatter the memory... " |
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702 days ago |
haha that’s funny—are your eyes blurry?? ? -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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702 days ago |
#380 If you go to a friends house and feel compelled to ask for a screwdriver to adjust that kitchen cabinet door with an 1/8” sag. -- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music"" |
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701 days ago |
#381 You know you are a lumberjock if have come in the house smelling more like pinesol than pinesol -- If you need craft books - please visit our small business at http://www.wittywife.com |
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701 days ago |
#382 You might be a LumberJock when after making a replacement drawer for your wife’s kitchen cabinet that had Builders drawers. You find the the Half-lap corners was not what you want, and you go buy a dovetail saw. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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701 days ago |
#383 …if you have doubts about your “Lumberjockness” with a grade of 49.7% after spending the last hour tallying up to see which of the 382 lines applies to yourself. -- Thuan |
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700 days ago |
#384..you might be a lumberjock if while in the emergency room getting sutures for almost cutting off a finger while trying to finish one more thin strip, you say, “as long as I have nubs to work with, I’ll keep on woodworking.
#385.. despite almost cutting off a finger, you go back in to the shop to see if you can still do anything with that bandaged hand, and think, “If I put two sided tape on my hand I could still hold a tool, or sand” (I did) -- so much wood, so little time. Bradford. |
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700 days ago |
#386 You might be…if you have blood, sweat, and tears all at the same time, in your latest project and, leave it in, poly’d over, just to remind you of the tooth count that went through your hand. #387 you might be…if you were building a bookcase to hold all of your wood books, mags and catalogues for #384 as mentioned above. -- so much wood, so little time. Bradford. |
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700 days ago |
#387 you know you are when your spouse wraps your Christmas gifts and closes the wrapping paper with Band-Aids. -- so much wood, so little time. Bradford. |
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700 days ago |
#389…there is cat poop in your saw dust, and you don’t have a cat.(ha ha) -- so much wood, so little time. Bradford. |
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700 days ago |
#390.. you wake from a dream about building a project and go out to the shop to write down the dream and start pulling the wood, and then go back to bed. -- so much wood, so little time. Bradford. |
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700 days ago |
Bradford hope everything is ok on the fingers. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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700 days ago |
Good line on the blade guard Bradford. Has applied to me. |
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700 days ago |
ouch re: “blood sweat and tears’ ... sounds like everything turned out ok or at least not too seriously. I liked the 49% comment… -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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680 days ago |
#391 …you enthuse about finding, and post the fact on the internet that you’ve found this on your driveway -- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business. http://www.folksy.com/shops/TreeGems |
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680 days ago |
Holly Cow! #392 You know your a LumberJock when you spend over one hour reading about how to tell if you might be a LumberJock. #393 When your wife shows you a painting she likes and all you can see is the frame. #394 when driving the wife wants you to look at a nice house and all you see is the trees around it. #395 when at least half the vacation photos are of trees and the wood paneling from the cruse ship. #396 when you line up your splinters after removing them from your hands and try to identify them. #397 when you wake up in the morning with a bench design tattooed on your hand. #398 when you plant walnuts instead of eating them. #399 when you put a splint on a broken tree branch and wonder what it will look like after being milled into lumber many years later. #400 When you want OBI and Drew to see you made 400. -- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3 http://www.portablesawmill.biz/concrete/ |
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680 days ago |
Stewart: Guilty! Re #391 -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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680 days ago |
#401 You spend an hour talking to another LumberJock on the phone to try to determine how to cut up #391 to get the best and most useful wood. No decisions made. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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677 days ago |
You have a 100+ year-old hickory stump (14 foot tall) at a 70-degree angle in your front yard, along with various other pieces of the same tree waiting for someone to show up with a portable sawmill to cut it up for you. -- Tom, Michigan ~ Working with a renewable resource called wood |
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647 days ago |
#402 Someone comes over to your house and absolutely must know where you bought that incredible piece of furniture….... and you coyly smile from ear to ear and say…......”I built it”. |
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647 days ago |
was that #403 Alphie? So, Karson, how’s your #391 – now that it has a name ;) -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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647 days ago |
#404 when your brand new Rockler and Fine Woodworking magazines that you just got yesterday are crumpled up and ripped because you’ve read each 5 times already. #405 when your parents/wife wont let you into the house until all the sawdust is off of you (and we all know thats never gonna happen) #406 when your special tv time is 830 to 1100 on Saturday so you can watch all diy’s woodworking shows #407 when you spend more time in your shop than in your actual house (or at least you try to) |
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647 days ago |
Scott. # 391 is still sitting in the driveway. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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647 days ago |
well, I’m sure I speak for all of us, when I say we can’t wait to see “Cigar Pen #391, Eurostyle Pen #391 and Boxes #391 a, b, and c. ;) -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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638 days ago |
#408 You might be a LumberJock when you take pictures of a LumberJocks shop and don’t take any of the owner. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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638 days ago |
#409 When you open up Lumberjocks, & find a surprise, like the new 3D gallery, Martin just created. -- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1 |
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636 days ago |
#410 Wake up @3:00 to read this -- Pretzel L8agn |
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626 days ago |
Quote from Mark DeCou “No. 21: you quit a good paying, easy job, with a climate controlled environment, with vacation time, 401(K), sick pay, bereavement pay, and a company car, just so you can work hard for 10-12 hours a day, 6 days a week, sweating in a 100 degree shop, smelling sawdust, with no vacations, no retirement, have to work even when you’re sick, make less than minimum wage at times……....just so you can spend more time working with wood.” Man! Tell me about it! Aint that the TRUTH!!! -- www.Exclusivecellars.com |
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626 days ago |
#411 You might be a Lumberjock when you find out a fellow Lumber jock is stopping by, so you cut some scrap walnut without turning on the dust collector, just so the shop smells good. -- Brian, Virginia Beach |
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625 days ago |
that is funny -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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625 days ago |
#412 You might be a Lumberjock when you get back to work after four days off and realize you miss your shop. -- Brian, Virginia Beach |
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625 days ago |
#413 You might be a Lumberjock when you take down the family photo from the wall to use the nail to see how your project will look hanging. #414 You have “handmade by mike linn” branded on you arm ( a slip of the branding iron) |
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625 days ago |
#414 You know you are a Lumberjock when you build a jig to make another jig. -- Anybody can become a woodworker, but only a Craftsman can hide his mistakes. |
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621 days ago |
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621 days ago |
...when you stop taking vacations from work and start practicing for retirement (in the shop, of course). |
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621 days ago |
WHAT!? WHAT!? WHAT’S AN UMBER CLOCK!??? |
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611 days ago |
#417 When you spend more time looking for tools that you just had in your hand, than you do actually working the wood. -- Trevor Premer Head Termite and Servant to the Queen - Heirloom Woodworking |
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604 days ago |
#418 You just spent 2 hours reading these -- Jim - Sussex Wi |
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604 days ago |
#419 You give your son your tools so you can buy new ones -- Jim - Sussex Wi |
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604 days ago |
#420 You check Craig’s List every day for free lumber -- Jim - Sussex Wi |
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604 days ago |
#421 You check Craig’s list Material to see if there is anything you can’t live without -- Jim - Sussex Wi |
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604 days ago |
#422 You check the Craig’s List tool section to buy near new premium tools with hardly any wear and 1/2 the price of new. -- Jim - Sussex Wi |
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604 days ago |
#423 You continually remodel areas of your house just to have a project. -- Jim - Sussex Wi |
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604 days ago |
#424 You encourage your son to buy a 1900 house so you can spend the time with him completely rebuilding the house and using all your battery operated tools. -- Jim - Sussex Wi |
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604 days ago |
#425 You take the finish off your mission rolltop desk restoration project 3 times before you get the right custom color. -- Jim - Sussex Wi |
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604 days ago |
![]() lumberjocks love ducks, especially the wood ones !!!!! -- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever |
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603 days ago |
You make your neighbor put a scrap wood “coaster” under his beer while he’s admiring your newly completed work bench. |
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603 days ago |
-- Pretzel L8agn |
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602 days ago |
428. When you are producing so much sawdust that you’re giving it to the locals for mulch and to the oil change joints for oil dry… -- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) † |
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602 days ago |
429. You produce so much sawdust/chips that you spread them on the local footpaths to help people ‘who don’t want to get their feet too muddy/slip over’, rather than take it to the tip or burn them. 430. When your son/girlfriend/spouse introduces you to someone and finishes off by saying that you always carry a chainsaw in the back of the car, just in case. (For some reason they ALWAYS do this when introducing you to someone attractive….) 431. When you keep an eye on local trees and post letters in mailboxes telling people that their tree is sick and needs to be taken down, or that if they are taking it down, can you have some? 432. The local council calls you to tell you that they are taking some trees down and did you want them? 433. You are sick. On your way back from the doctor, you see that they are cutting a tree down in the local park, and you just have to stop and take as much of it away as you can…. -- Wood you.... |
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602 days ago |
429 You miss your bus in the morning so you go into your shop to wait for the next one and get sawdust all over your uniform… and spend the entire bus ride banging dust off yourself… I wonder why nobody sits beside me anymore :-) -- ...it's rennovation time!!! |
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601 days ago |
430. You are up at 4:00 AM and twitching because you can’t work in the shop until after the bride gets up. |
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601 days ago |
431 You know you are a lumberjock when you get complements on your shipping crates at the post office. -- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever |
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601 days ago |
When I read rikkor’s 430 I read birds and thought why would you care if the birds were not up.. ;-) -- ...it's rennovation time!!! |
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601 days ago |
432 oops I mean 437 …when you teach your 4 year old daughter how to use a plane… and suspect its genetic when she wants to learn more. Here comes the next generation of LJs. -- ...it's rennovation time!!! |
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601 days ago |
433. You know you’re a lumber jock when you meet another LJ and he says immediately: “Sniff my finger.” AND YOU DO WITHOUT HESITATION…then months later he says: “Now you can hold my hand…” This entry was inspired by the completion of Obi’s hand project... -- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun... |
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601 days ago |
pull my finger -- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever |
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601 days ago |
434. You know you’re a LumberJock when your family members give you gift cards to the lumber yard for both your B-day and Christmas and expect you to make something for them -- Islandwoodworker@Gmail.com |
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600 days ago |
I haven’t them all so it might be a repeat. 435. You know you’re a lumberjock when you quit doing your own projects and read about every body elses on the website. -- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do. |
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598 days ago |
436.You see bi-fold doors sitting on the street and take them because the slats would be perfect for shingles on a doll house, smooth sofened edges, beautiful grain pattern, maybe some plank flooring, beadbord wainscotting, yet you dont even make dollhouses YET, but I did just come back from home depot with a 16” variable speed scroll saw by ryobi just to see if it is something I can do. |
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597 days ago |
437. .............if you have to sprinkle sawdust on your food before it tastes right. -- "Big" John |
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595 days ago |
438- You have shavings in the pocket of your ROBE. 439- The paint store calls YOU for advice 440- The value of the tools in your truck outweigh the cost of the truck 441- Your dog has a favourite flavour of wood 442- Your first coffee each day has sawdust floating in it 443- You can’t move because you are waiting for an oak tree to be large enough to mill 444- You have used your wedding ring to mark a curve 445- You own safety shades for working outside 446- You know where to buy the cheapest Kraft Dinner substitute (for those of us who do this for a living) 447- You know that 600 thread count Egyptian cotton bed sheets make the best stain rags 448- You know the name of every stain that Minwax/Pratt & Lambert/Old Masters makes, and can identify them all 449- You have a french polished shop stool 450- You know where shellac comes from, and still use it -- The only easy wood project is a fire |
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595 days ago |
451- When you buy a house across the street from an oak furniture factory. -- Frank O, Croydon, Pa |
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595 days ago |
haah these are great. -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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594 days ago |
454- You are more concerned about the teeth on your blades than the ones in your head 455- You have at least 40 jars of stain with clients names on them, because you never know when a repair will be needed, and the recipe changed. 456- You have saplings on your property already tagged for a project 457- Your wife’s garden trelisses are made out of curly maple, cherry, ash, and walnut 458- The aforementioned trelisses are joined with lap joints and Titebond 3 459- You can use maple, cherry, birch, and poplar in the same panel, and no one else can tell 460- When your wife hears you telling someone “she’s already getting turned on” she ASSUMES you are talking about your lathe 461- There are no logs in your firewood pile, just pails of offcuts no more than 3” long -- The only easy wood project is a fire |
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594 days ago |
466 when you care so much about this list, you recount the recent posts just to make sure we’re not selling ourselves short! – Dammit Jim, I’m a lumberjock, not an accountant! -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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594 days ago |
lol funny Scott… yes, I’ve counted a few times :) -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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592 days ago |
You know yer a LJ if: 467 You have a real wood veneer with inlaid wood design on you laptop. 468 You attach sandpaper to your cell phone and put it on vibration for touch up sanding. 469 You are reading this because the police have told about the noise ordinance you violated by running saws between midight and 6 am . The other choice would be spending the rest of the night in jail where nothing is made of wood. 470 When your wife breads chicken accidently with sawdust you lefton the kitchen table. Then tell her it was the best tasting chicken dinner she has made. -- Frank O, Croydon, Pa |
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592 days ago |
471. You know you’re a LJ when The pattern of various cookies end up as coaster sets just because you wanted to see if it could be done in maple,& paduak -- Pretzel L8agn |
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589 days ago |
haven’t read all them so i don’t know if anyones said this yet 472. You know you’re a LJ when you have a Lumberjocks profile |
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589 days ago |
Frank O, that made me laugh out loud! those are both new ones… T.A.W.W – I see you’re getting a great education re:wood, but are they teaching you to count in that school of yours <grin> Next one is 474 people – now STOP TESTING ME ;) -- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/ |
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589 days ago |
oh yes they are. just a little slip up. i go to one of the most (if not the most prestigious school in the country) it was rated in the top 20 high schools in America this year and has held the top testing scores in my state for many years and we send 99.7 percent of our kids to college. out of over 2000 students. |
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589 days ago |
474: You know you’re a lumberjock when your food goes bad because you stole the vacuum pump from your refridgerator to make a vacuum press. (man, my wife was TICKED!) -- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) † |
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588 days ago |
475: You know your a LJ when your wife asks why did you buy another router when you bought a router last month? Your reply is,” I just got a new real cool router bit and needed a safe place to keep it.” -- Frank O, Croydon, Pa |
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588 days ago |
that’s impressive TWW!!! Steve—you didn’t !!! -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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585 days ago |
MsDebbieP- No, I didn’t, but my wife was really ticked that I was thinking about it… (does that count?)... lol 476: You know you’re a LJ when you have more sawdust on you than hair. 477: You know you’re a LJ when you have a debate over the “tool budget” because you have to pay the “power bill budget”... 478: You know you’re a LJ when you log on to the LJ’s website and get sawdust in the keyboard. -- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) † |
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585 days ago |
479: You know you’re a LJ when you buy old furniture at actions just so you can have an antique wood collection. I can’t believe this is the first time I’m seeing this threat I guess I had tunnel vision another think that will make you a LJ, this is to funny. -- Joey~~Sabina, Ohio http://sleepydogwoodworking.blogspot.com/ |
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585 days ago |
481: You look at a cabinet door in a vacation home and say out loud, “Wow these were made with bookmatched panels!” and your sister-in-law (or anyone) asks you “why on earth do you know that” or what that even “means”. Great stuff in here – thanks for all of the posts! -- God bless! Freddo (Northern - NJ) Our Creator designed us to create - so use WOOD! |
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584 days ago |
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584 days ago |
482: You read this list to your wife, admitting to every item and she shakes her head resignedly, packs a bag and leave with the kids to her mother’s house after realizing how bad you have it. -- Made lots of sawdust and pounded some nails. Haven't finished anything, though. |
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584 days ago |
483. . . .when you KNOW you are taking the laptop into the shop to keep up with conversations on LJ (as opposed to looking up information.) 484. When you start clearing the data and bookmarks for LJ so your husband doesn’t see you haven’t been in the shop all day! 485. When you convince husband that the time spent on LJ is research for a project. 486. When, after two days on LJ you have so many ideas for projects, and have now set the bar so high for yourself (because you guys make amazing stuff!) that you decide to become a pipe fitter. (but can’t be a pipe fitter because . . .well, it’s not wood. . . ) -- SM |
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584 days ago |
. . .nothing wrong with being a pipe fitter . . . it just seemed like it was a ways away from wood fitting. . . (two days and I’m already in trouble with someone . . .) -- SM |
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584 days ago |
487. When you cut yourself using a drill bit and your wife automatically assumes you cut off your finger in the table saw. (she actually did too). 488. When you decide that even with the high gas prices of over $3.25 that a pickup truck would be more economical because you can haul more wood than your car. (saves you on gas running back and forth). 489. When you cut yourself and contemplate using duct tape to patch yourself together so you finish a project that you’ve been working on for weeks. |
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584 days ago |
490. When the first thing your spouse does when he comes home from work, is to stick his head in the shop and call out, “Digit count!?” -- SM |
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584 days ago |
491- Your office is unfinished because you like to see the 2×4 rafters that actually measure 2”X4 -- The only easy wood project is a fire |
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583 days ago |
492. When your fine china is made from ash, hickory and oak, plus they match the finish on the dining room table and chairs . -- Frank O, Croydon, Pa |
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583 days ago |
493. When your wife catches you on the Lumberjock site more than in the shop! -- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) † |
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582 days ago |
494- you can name more types of wood than state capitals 495- You have purchased lumber by the pound 496- You work with wood all day, and still go into your shop to “wind down” 497- You bought your wife a micro-rasp for the kitchen, secretly knowing that it would make it’s way into the shop eventually 498- You can name all the parts on a hand plane (I get weird looks when I say I’m going out to get a replacement frog…) 499- DP means drill press (Do NOT EVER Google DP on the internet) 500- You spent all day yesterday trying to think of a few more “you know you’re a lumberjock when..” just to be number 500 -- The only easy wood project is a fire |
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582 days ago |
I googled DP and … nothing happened….. don’t get it ! -- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever |
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582 days ago |
yippee 500. -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan) |
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582 days ago |
Darn it, I was watching this to try to get number 500, but you beat me to it. I’m thinking about putting these all into a simple list that would make it easier to view. |
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581 days ago |
Dan- I saw the abbreviation DP for the first time on a woodworking site, didn’t know what it meant, and when I googled it I discovered that it is a fetish of sorts. I had to wash my eyes out with bleach after I saw the first site. -- The only easy wood project is a fire |
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581 days ago |
Dan, to see that sort of thing, you need to turn off the Safe Search. You might not want to be snacking if you do. -- Made lots of sawdust and pounded some nails. Haven't finished anything, though. |
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578 days ago |
501 You know you’re a Lumberjock when you’re one of the 66 people so far who’ve looked in on a posting headed test. Pity we’ve ‘nowt’ better to do! -- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business. http://www.folksy.com/shops/TreeGems |
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578 days ago |
502 You just might be a lumerjock, when you count your blessings, everytime you walk in and leave your shop, as well as the blessings of friends on Lumberjocks! -- Anchul - Warrensburg, MO: As a Pastor, I am just trying to get closer to Jesus. He was a woodworker too. |
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577 days ago |
503. When Ash Grove Mo, Twin Pines Mn, Red Oak Iowa, Maple Shade NJ, Cedar PK Tx, Hickory NC, Poplar Bluff mo, and Cherry Hill NJ sound like great vacation spots. -- Frank O, Croydon, Pa |
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576 days ago |
Speaking of vacation. I mentioned this in some other post but never put it up here ( and I did check to see if this wasn’t already mentioned ) 504. When your overseas vacation includes visiting hardware stores and woodworking shops for that hard to find tool or a tool bargain. -- Steve, New Zealand, www.steveracz.com |
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576 days ago |
Hi havent got a quote but your quote no#21 about quiting a good job to work in shit and dust i went for an interview today for just that in a local sawmill to me GOD I HOPE I GET IT Pommy -- cut it saw it scrap it |
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576 days ago |
505 you know you are a lumberjock when, you plan your vacation days to avoid weekends because it cuts in on your woodshop time ! -- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever |
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564 days ago |
506 You know you’re a lumberjock when you can’t cut and burn firewood anymore without feeling guilty. -- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) † |
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555 days ago |
I’ll give it a try— 507 p-man |
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544 days ago |
#511- YKYAL when the tables of your stationary power tools have a hand rubbed wax finish and your spouse’s vehicle has a spray on car wash wax. ( I just realized this while redoing the the garage for a woodshop) -- Frank O, Croydon, Pa |
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542 days ago |
#512 – you know you’re a Lumberjock when you walk around in public with a Lumberjocks, or The Wood Whisperer shirt on #513 – You know you’re a lumberjock when you take apart something just to see how its constructed. |
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542 days ago |
#514 – you know you’re a lumberjock when you can tell what wood your project is made out of simply by looking at the color of your kleenex after blowing your nose at the end of the day. -- Martin, Kansas |
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541 days ago |
#515 – You know you’re a Lumberjock when the first thing on the to do list after a long cold winter is to get the garage insulated, sheetrocked, heated and cooled for the long hot summer so that you never have to miss out on shop time again. -- “There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper … and the buyers who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.” John Ruskin |
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541 days ago |
#516 you know you’re a lumberjock when you have “finish project” in your daily planner |
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541 days ago |
#517 you know you’re a lumberjock when you carry around a notebook with sketches of different joints, ideas for projects, and finish recipes in it |
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536 days ago |
518 When you get withdrawl symptons because you haven’t been down to the hardware store for two weeks. -- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python |
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533 days ago |
519 When you haven’t been in the country for a while and you get home and spend two hours reading this entire thread! -- What would Marc do? |
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530 days ago |
#520…when you save the first shaving from a plane you’ve just made (and write that fact on it in pencil) (and put it in a book as a bookmark). -- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business. http://www.folksy.com/shops/TreeGems |
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530 days ago |
521. The salesman from Rockler calls to see if you are OK because you haven’t been in for a couple weeks. (Variation of #518) |
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530 days ago |
522. when you get a perfect shaving from a hand plane you save it and show all your woodworker friend! |
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530 days ago |
523. when you order wood online for the first time the delivery guy comments on the packages weird shape 524. after you’ve ordered wood online for a while the delivers guy knows the big oddly shaped package is yours (both speaking from experience ;) ) |
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530 days ago |
525. when you have projects laying around the shop, and house that you started and then never finished because another project came up. |
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528 days ago |
526 You know you are a LumberJock when while wlaking to work you look at the beautiful basswoods growing along the sidewalk and think “look at all that beautiful wood, I could make…” Apparently there is a city ordinance against cutting these trees down…who knew :-) -- ...it's rennovation time!!! |
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528 days ago |
527 When you spend almost as much time on the LJ’s site as you do in the workshop !!!!. -- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python |
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528 days ago |
528. you know you’re a lumberjock when you have an autographed picture of David Marks and show it to everybody like it is the greatest thing in the world (but they don’t care) 529. you know you’re a lumberjock when you go in to the lumberyard to get a few bf of oak for a project and walk out with your oak, and a mahogany plank, and a purpleheart turning square they had, and a nice looking chunk of basswood you saw, and…........ 530. you know you’re a lumberjock when your day is planned around shop time and lumberjocks. 550 – wake up |
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527 days ago |
You know you’re a LumberJock if you’re posting at this time in the morning to try to get a rise out of Grumpy and still haven’t figured out what time or day it is in Australia. From past experience I think it’s always after 5 PM there. bbqKing -- bbqKing, Lawrenceville |
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523 days ago |
bbqKing, the time difference is easy. -- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python |
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518 days ago |
531. You know you’re an LJ if you watch The New Yankee Workshop and say, “Yah, I got one of those” to everything Nahm’s got in his shop. (maybe a repeat, but who’s got time to read all this stuff? I hear my table saw calling my name…..) -- Makin' Sawdust!!! |
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518 days ago |
532. you know you’re a junior lumberjock when you see kids on some TV show go to norms shop and make something and go on a whole fit about how they “don’t appreciate it” and have “no idea where they are”. all from personal experience!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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506 days ago |
533. You know your a LJ when you take the relatives on a tour of the house for 1 hour and you spend 45 minites of the tour in your shop. The last 15 minites all the projects you have done through the house. -- Frank O, Croydon, Pa |
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506 days ago |
534. Your scrap dictates what project you build next. “I really didn’t want to build that candle box but that piece of Southeast Asian Bonewood sure looks good on the top.” -- Don, Pittsburgh |
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506 days ago |
535. you know you’re a lumberjock when you try to plan family vacations around woodworking areas of interest. |
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472 days ago |
536. You buy your wife her own tools so yours don’t leave the shop so you know they are in there someplace… 537. You are at a party when a drunk lady asks about your hobbies, you tell her “I run a small woodshop” Her reply “Oh you make wood” and with a straight face you say “No, wood grows on trees”...this actually happened. 538. Your 3 year old kid recognizes power tools by their sound. 539. Your 50 year old maple tree in the back yard breaks off one of the croth offshoots and you are dissapointed the rest of the tree is going to live rather than having an excuse to cut it down and gettinng it sawn up for lumber. 540. You learn your kitchen cabinets are custom made from American Chestnut that was the original subfloor of the 150 year old farm house you just bought and you spend the next day consider how much of a chore it would be to rip up the rest of the flooring to reclaim all the other lumber. 541. Your pile of someday project plans is higher (and heavier) that your wood pile. 542. You spend you trout fishing time mostly talking about power tools, where to buy them, pros/cons, etc. 543. You are able to convince your wife of the sacrifice you are making by having to build a new drum sander just so you can make her a new bedroom set. 544. Your shop has more lighting than the rest of the house, when you flick the light switch the electric meter starts spinning too fast to see. 545. While on vacation you spend hours going through the yellow pages looking for lumber yards to visit in case they have something unique you couldn’t find at home. 546. You finish your wife’s birthday present 4 weeks early and had to give it to her since you were so excited about 1. finishing it early, and 2. how cool it looks. 547. Your wife starts a savings account to build you a new shop just to get the tools, dust and noise out of the basement. 548. You have tax exempt status at every wood supplier within a 100 mile radius of your house. 549. Your kitchen floor acts as a work surface for gluing up the larger projects. 550. You spend your Saturday mornings cruising your neighbors logging sites looking for stumps and roots to cut into and drag home. 551. You start bagging cedar sawdust thinking there might be a market on E-Bay. 552. You see the Wood Spirit, Jesus, Allah or whatever other religious icon you believe in in a piece of wood and hang it on the wall, or try to E-Bay it, kind of like a cheese sandwich. 553. You give an old wood table you built as a kid to your wife for her craft room, knowing she is going to get glue and stuff on it, then get excited when she does get glue on it so you will have to refinish the top. 554. Consider using sawdust instead of sand in the kids’ sand box. 555. You stop at your neighbor’s house on your way home from work (before going to your own home) just to see what logs he dragged home or cut up that day and if they are spoken for already. -- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com |
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472 days ago |
Oh and in response to #294, my dog’s middle name is DeWalt… -- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com |
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472 days ago |
Oops, forgot one… -- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com |
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472 days ago |
557. You “Roll the Dice” on the LJ home page until your profile comes up just so you can see what gets featured. -- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com |
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456 days ago |
You know you’re a Lumber Jock if you spend an hour reading all these posts. -- Sharp tools and thin whispy shavings make woodworking a joy. |
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455 days ago |
559. When you find random handplane shavings of Bubinga scattered through the house (they must have stuck to my shirt…) 560. If you step into your shoe and get a splinter in your foot. 561. When you try to get coins out of your pocket at the store, and you pull out sawdust with them. 562. When you catch the little kids next door playing with the boards you had sitting behind the garage. 563. When you catch the little kids from next door trying to develop lung disease by playing in the pile of sawdust and shavings behind the garage. -- Lane Custom Guitars and Basses |
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455 days ago |
564. When you sound proof the wall between the house and the garage so you can fire up your tools any time of the night and not wake your bride….:) -- Can't never could do anything, to try is to advance. |
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445 days ago |
565 Your fiancee grabs the wheel when you’re driving so you don’t crash as you stare at unfinished lumber piled behind buildings -- The platypus is nature's way of saying "I made this thing out of spare parts I found on the floor, and it can still cripple you." |
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445 days ago |
You know your a lumberjock if when your go out at night or real early in the morning to visit outher people’s garbage to see if you can get some furniture to fix or even more wood to add to your pile. And, I don’t like ducks, I know what those buggers can eat, I inherited a pet duck many moons ago, from my niece when she no longer took care of it, & it has since croked. |
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444 days ago |
When you can’t decide to throw that tiny wood scrap away or keep it. -- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python |
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444 days ago |
You smell cedar aroma comming from your kitchen when your wife is frying popcorn. -- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY. |
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444 days ago |
569. You leave the air filter off while sanding white oak on a your lathe, cuz you love the smell of whiskey…... umm, I mean the white oak. ;-) -- Got Wood? |
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442 days ago |
You know you are a Lumberjock when you load up your portable saw mill stuff, chainsaws and volunteer to help out at the hurricane clean~up! well, that’s how I found “Lumberjock” anyways… this fella says, “you need to check out this website, I think you’ll fit in there, haha” now I have some 60” diameter pine and oak about 40’ long to cut up… more to get saturday. poor trees aren’t appreciated when the lean on someone’s house… so I give them a new home… |
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442 days ago |
poor trees aren’t appreciated when the lean on someone’s house… so I give them a new home… corgifrog Good for you, sir, for helping out. The lumber is a just reward. |
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442 days ago |
I am a true Lumberjock because No. 46 IS my shop and when the step son moves out that room will be a finishing room. -- There is no such thing as a mistake. Its called a design modification Rick Kruse, Grand Rapids, MI |
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440 days ago |
570: Your wife tolorates you reading this list to her only so she can say “See I told you it’s an obsession!” -- - Michael [..for God's glory." 2 Cor. 10:31] Over 300000 species of trees, yet we take the credit for their beauty... |
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440 days ago |
On a recent hike with our two boys, my wife noticed I was repeatedly commenting about spalting I was seeing on fallen trees. Well just after another comment I made regarding an exceptional specimen (IMHO) that I wanted to lash down onto my back and hike out of the forest with said, “You can take the man out of his workshop, but you can’t take the workshop out of the man.” She’s my girl! ‘Guess I’m a LumberJock! :) -- God bless! Freddo (Northern - NJ) Our Creator designed us to create - so use WOOD! |
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438 days ago |
571. You know your a LJ when after turning the garage into a woodshop you put a small one in the basement for small quick projects. 572. When you go out to buy a small peice of to finish a project and come back with enough wood to start another. 573. Try to convince your spouse that the truckload of wood you just bought was a good buy since it was on sale. -- Frank O, Croydon, Pa |
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438 days ago |
574. You know you are a LumberJock when you drive 75 miles to buy a box of #0 Biscuits. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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438 days ago |
“Can’t look at a piece of furniture with out crawling under it to see how its built.” Hahah I totally do that. How about when you’re driving to work on Garbage day, and you drive slowly looking for any furniture you can rebuild/refinish. -- When my wife ask's what I have to show for my wood working hobby, I just show her the splinters. |
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423 days ago |
... when the customer service folks at Lee Valley know it’s you before you even speak because they’re so familiar with your pauses. |
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423 days ago |
577 You know you are lumberjock when you drive an extra 140 miles to save a dollar a board foot on quartersawn white oak…. My SUV only gets 20 mpg. Guess the joke is on me. -- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever |
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382 days ago |
You know you are a lumberjock when you drive your ‘93 Civic Hatchback to get wood because at 39mpg you can afford to buy MORE MORE MORE!!! |
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353 days ago |
578. You know you are a lumberjock when you know you want tools for Christmas, but you can’t decide what would be cooler. As a result, you just ask for a gift certificate to Midwest Woodworkers. 579. When you require your woodworking students to register on lumberjocks and join this sawdust filled moshpit of woodworking genius. 580. When you always think of how to build something out of wood when it could or should be metal. |
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353 days ago |
581. You know your a lumber jock when you plant tree seedlings and tell your small kids that wil be their new furniture when they grow up and move out. -- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings |
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353 days ago |
582. You know you are a Lumber Jock when the forest rangers know you by your first name and search your truck for chain saws each time you enter the forest even though you have told them a hundred times you are helping nature by removing the old dead stuff. -- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings |
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339 days ago |
583. You know you’re a Lumber Jock when your wife asks you what you want for Christmas, and immediately follows it with “But I’m not getting you another plane this time!” -- Mark H. |
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338 days ago |
You know your a lumber jock when the only vacum you know how to work is a 6.5 hp Shop Vac. -- All bleeding will eventually stop. |
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338 days ago |
585. You know you are a Lumber Jock when you sit down to read a little bit of a new wood working book at 9 pm and plan on only reading for 30 minutes, but when you look at the clock again it is already 11:10. -- Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive. |
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307 days ago |
You just might be a lumberjock if every time you need some wood putty you just take off your dust mask, sniff a bit of yellow glue, and work your finger around till you get just the right amount. Warning do not try this with epoxy. It was a month before I could breath out of both nostrils. |
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306 days ago |
587 you might be a lumberjock if you can’t balance a check book, but can calculate board feet without a calculator 588 know how to convert .004” into 64th or 32nds 589 have ever attempted to use wood glue to close a cut on a finger, hand, arm, leg… 590 realize you have aged 2.79 years since this post originated 591 are addicted enough to Lumberjocks (after only a week) to read 2.79 years of posts in one sitting 592 wish that Ohad Milner posted more that just pics and simple descriptions on Lumberjocks.com -- "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most logical explantion is that I was made for another world." -C.S. Lewis |
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306 days ago |
593 If you are reading this post -- making sawdust.... |
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306 days ago |
594 (Like 593) You know your a lumberjock when you follow this post for 966 days and then when you decide to post something you reread all the post just to chack that you arent just repeating what other people have said. -- mwm! Before you criticise walk a mile in their shoes, and when you do criticise you will be a mile away and have their shoes! |
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306 days ago |
595 when you get a pen and paper and decide to right all the good ones down (all of them) so that if the situation ever arises you will be able to use 1 of your many posts that you know off by heart i a witty comeback! ( fully realisisng that the situation will most probably never areise, but you have to be true to one of the staples of your day to day life (LJ’s)) -- mwm! Before you criticise walk a mile in their shoes, and when you do criticise you will be a mile away and have their shoes! |
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306 days ago |
596. when you accidently cut you thight with chisel while chopping a mortise, and you just smile and say to your self….”this is part of the process of making M&T joint that my teacher did not tell me, maybe!”.. -- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY. |
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306 days ago |
597. Your in the doghouse with the wife so as you proceed to sleep on the couch you notice a minor defect that keeps you up thinking about ways to fix it all night and eventually get up carry it down to the shop and fix before the sun risses just so you can get a good nights sleep. -- mwm! Before you criticise walk a mile in their shoes, and when you do criticise you will be a mile away and have their shoes! |
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306 days ago |
598. When you see a truckload of cherry pull into town so you spend the night at the lumber store so you can have the first pick. |
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306 days ago |
599.You might just be a lumberjock when you see a lumber delivery truck and wonder if you are getting a delivery. 600. If the drivers of lumber delivery trucks know where you live and where to unload your lumber order while you are out looking for a new router/ tablesaw or picking up a cup of coffee. 601. You know your a lumberjock when every peice of paper in the house has a drwing and cut list for a new project. -- Frank O, Croydon, Pa |
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306 days ago |
No 602 When your wife gives you a picture out of the Country Living and she looks at you can make it yes I can Honey -- Jim, Kentucky |
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305 days ago |
603 if you buy glue brushes in bulk. -- RTB. "dumb animals are not stupid they simply can't talk " |
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305 days ago |
606. A fellow Lumberjock posted his/her latest project, you ask for more pictures from different angles when only one pic was uploaded in the gallery. -- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY. |
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304 days ago |
607. Your wife has listened to you talk so much about woodworking that she knows more than most regular guys, and can name all your tools correctly. |
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304 days ago |
607. Your wife has listened to you talk so much about woodworking that she knows more than most regular guys, and can name all your tools correctly. |
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304 days ago |
609. Whenever you’re in the shop you always have coins in your pocket, so anytime you have visitor you can show off that your table saw passes dime test. -- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY. |
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304 days ago |
You might be a lumberjock if your wife has to pull you away from making wooden toy food for your daughter (for when she turns 3) to go to the hospital and give birth to that same daughter… I’ll be a daddy by 5 pm tomorrow! YAY -- ManOWoodMan |
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301 days ago |
611. When you wish to be able to build just about anything out of wood. -- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY. |
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300 days ago |
612. When you were lost in the woods, you were not in a hurry to find the way out but keep saying to your self..”I should have brought my chainsaw along, so I can cut down some trees for my projects, then post them and tell this sweet experience to my fellow Lomberjocks …!” -- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY. |
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294 days ago |
613. You know you’re a Lumberjocks if : It is 3:00AM, and you could not sleep until and unless you finish typing the last word of a greeting note welcoming the newest member joins Lumberjocks at 2:59AM. -- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY. |
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293 days ago |
614. You know you’re a Lumberjock when you catch yourself explaining to your 95 year old grandmother that a Japanese saw cuts on the pull stroke. -- Kate, http://www.wooden-box-maker.com |
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291 days ago |
615. When you set the H’oderves for tonights dinner party on the glue table in the shop. -- Frank O, Croydon, Pa |
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291 days ago |
616. When you keep checking your freezer to find if there is any fresh milk in plastic can or bottle, you finish the contents you can hardly swallow, you clean the can/bottle, keep it, though you already have 20s of them in your shop – ” ....who knows, I may use it later…..” -- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY. |
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290 days ago |
617.You plant a specific breed of tree when landscaping, for the sole purpose of letting it grow into a project you have in mind for “someday” then you wind up triimming it regularly because you need more pen blanks for the ever growing Christmas gift list. You also trim it because you want that crotch to be just right. Thank you all for the incredibly warm welcome- took two hours to read just this list alone- I think I will have a LOT of reading to do before I post too much |
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290 days ago |
618. When you buy a Blackberry just to get email alerts and a good internet browser on your phone JUST FOR LUMBERJOCKS when you’re away from the computer at home. -- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) † |
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290 days ago |
When your stranded on an island and you find a magic lamp, rub it, out comes a genie and grants you 3 wishes and your wishes are for a block plane, a chisel, and a hand saw. ;) |
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290 days ago |
620. When your wish for block plane, a chisel and a hand saw was fullfilled, you request 3 more items as an annual bonus – a table saw, a band saw and a jointer , and more and more and more…., because a Lumberjocks will never have enough tools… -- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY. |
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289 days ago |
No. 621 When you ask your technical theatre Teacher at school -- Hey Mr. Jones, could i use that off-cut? |
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286 days ago |
No.622 When you time glue ups and hand sanding on projects to coincide with the sleep patterns of the wife -- If at first you don't succeed...Don't try skydiving |
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286 days ago |
OOPS!!!!! No. 623 should read “table saw” -- If at first you don't succeed...Don't try skydiving |
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286 days ago |
you know your a woodworker When a cheeseburger smells like stain -- Brad,--"The way to eat an eliphant is one bite at a time" |
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286 days ago |
I haven’t been able to come up with a new one for a long while. Thanks for helping me brainstorm “brad” #624: If everything, and everywhere you go, smells like lacquer, you might be a lumberjock. -- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com |
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286 days ago |
No 625: When your neighbors buy a pit bull to gaurd their firewood -- If at first you don't succeed...Don't try skydiving |
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286 days ago |
how about finding the tool you thought you had lost, a week after you bought a new one to replace it -- Smitty!!! |
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286 days ago |
627. When your neighbour buy a new Table Saw, you’re happy to give your hand hauling the 230kg TS from the truck to the basement. And you are there almost day long helping him with the setting up until the first fire up. -- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY. |
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266 days ago |
#628 When you drive down the road and you see a board in the road and you stop to pick it up and look back to see you caused a traffic jam. -- William King, Florida, www.woodwrestler.com |
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265 days ago |
629. When the head of community calls for volunteers to help clearing and cleaning the mess after a hurricane struck an area which is 50 miles away from your home, you’re the first to register, coz you know there are a many of walnut trees uprooted. -- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY. |
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265 days ago |
#630 When you go out in the woods and see all the old stumps left from the cut trees and wonder what you can make from them. #631 When you go to the saw mill and see the scrap wood left from sawyer and wondering what projects you could be making from all the off fall. #632 When you step out of the truck at the saw mill and you can tell the wood they are cutting from the mist from the sap spray from the wood they are cutting. -- Major Walt Timoschuk,III |
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265 days ago |
#631 When you feel weird with pants on that don’t have cargo pockets. -- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music"" |
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260 days ago |
No. 632 You know that you’re a lumberjock when you can’t afford the project you’ve just finished, and are not going to receive what it’s worth, ahh… but for the love of wood. -- sparksterinnorfolk,www.lumberjocks.com |
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257 days ago |
#633. With BIG smile on your face, you softly and politely ask your wife “Honey, I’m going downtown, if you need anything just let me know, I’ll buy for you”....when there is a ww machinery fair held in town, 150km from your home. -- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY. |
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257 days ago |
#634. And if you got reply from her ” Yes, but is OK I can wait until….” ”..no problem honey, I will use my money” you interrupted. -- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY. |
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252 days ago |
#644. You really know you are a Lumberjock…....When you jump up and down in your workshop screaming that your table saw is no longer cutting twelve foot planks within a thousands of an inch. -- I will just keep doing it till I get it right. |
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251 days ago |
You know when you’re a lumberjock when: #645. – You look forward to your spouse’s family reunion, as you know it’s on the family farm where you can go wood hunting while everyone else eats and carries on. #646. – You start sawing off odd limbs of the giant old pecan tree in the yard of the farmhouse while the other kinfolk women are gabbing about their children. #647. – You carry a pair of work gloves, a tarp and a handsaw in your new car. -- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe |
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244 days ago |
#648. You know your a lumberjock when when you use tree species for a phonetic alphabet. -- Frank O, Croydon, Pa |
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244 days ago |
#649: When you drive by old, gnarly trees reeeal slow, slower than speed limit and there’s no speed cameras around. #650: When you stop by and introduce yourself to the owner of a really deformed tree and ask if they’ll call you when they cut it down. #651: When you hope UPS doesn’t deliver your latest wood purchase on a weekend while your spouse is home. #652: When you have to hide the evidence of a wood purchase from your spouse by disposing of the cardboard wrapper in the recycle bin. -- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe |
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242 days ago |
#653 When you go to the saw mill and see the scrap wood left from sawyer and wondering what projects you could be making from all the off fall. #654 When you step out of the truck at the saw mill and you can tell the wood they are cutting from the mist from the sap spray from the wood they are cutting. -- Major Walt Timoschuk,III |
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242 days ago |
#655 : When I read quirk no #651 and #652 posted by mmh, I smiled to my self because this actually happen to me ….so I’m a lumberjock, definately. -- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY. |
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242 days ago |
when you don’t clean up your shop because you’ll be back in it first thing in the morining. -- My shop teacher said "You can do it".... Now I can't stop! |
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242 days ago |
When you find shavings in every pocket in all your clothes -- peruturner,lima peru |
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240 days ago |
#659 You definitely are a Lumber Jock if : You buy a suitcase to bring home lumber from your vacation on the plane…did it on my honeymoon in Hawaii (beautiful KOA) and again on our anni-moon in Washington state (big leaf quilted maple). I’ll post some projects of both when I get a chance. P.S. You can buy a large suitcase at a thrift store for $4 or $5.00, then donate it to your local thrift store when you get home. -- Davis B - Baker Wood Classics - "Making the Antiques of Tomorrow' |
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236 days ago |
You know you’re a Lumber Jock if you sign-up for this forum and then spend 3 hours reading each of these postings…however, you really know you’re a Lumber Jock if all of your passwords are some woods’ Latin name |
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234 days ago |
WHEN ALL YOUR PASWORDS ARE LIKE ; SAWDUST WALNUT, HICKORY, TABLESAW, DEWALT, STANLEY OR THE SERIAL NUMBER OF YOUR TABLESAW. WHEN YOUR PASSWORD QUESTION IS WHATS ON MY BASEMENT FLOOR==SAWDUST -- PAPLOU |
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234 days ago |
Truth! -- My shop teacher said "You can do it".... Now I can't stop! |
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234 days ago |
660 If you carry a chainsaw in your truck in case you spot a nice burl while your driving. -- Scott, South Carolina |
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232 days ago |
when your wife wishes you were looking at porn rather than woodworking catalogs -- "There is a fine line between woodworker and tool collector" |
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230 days ago |
That you took the time to convince your wife that it was more beneficial to take with us on our move to Texas the 200 board feet of Exotics, as opposed to her store bought solid Red Oak dining set and won. |
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229 days ago |
Oh Yeah, true story. While out searching for a home in a new city to buy with your wife and 6 year old grandson, you drive by a house with the garage door open and notice that inside is a woodshop. You stop, turn around and spend the next 45 minutes talking to a fellow woodworker while the wife and the grandson wait in the car for you. |
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229 days ago |
665. .....spend the next 45 minutes talking to a fellow woodworker while the wife and the grandsons wait in the car for you. When you get back to them, you tel them what you and the fellow woodworker talk about, though they undestand nothing….LOL that is me. -- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY. |
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222 days ago |
667. When there could be heard of elephants in that pile of saw dust in your shop -- Jesse s |
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222 days ago |
668. when even at -12 degress your standing in your shop working away -- Jesse s |
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221 days ago |
666. when your REAL name is jacques, so, you tell your wife it was your destiny…lumberjacques! |
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221 days ago |
when you blow your nose then try to guess what state it looks like…... -- Woodshop supplies at bulk discounts. www.getneds.com |
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221 days ago |
the word “jacques” is pronounced “jock”..... |
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212 days ago |
#669 You know you’re a Lumberjock when you can understand and share the joy of a Jock several thousand miles away, when he becomes the owner of some prize wood. And – you call in your wife to tell her the story. And she knows who you’re talking about and shares the pleasure too! -- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business. http://www.folksy.com/shops/TreeGems |
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212 days ago |
670 when a freind is looking for a special piece of hardware to finish a project and you work on it as hard as he does just to see the finished product -- Gary, DeKalb Texas |
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212 days ago |
#671 You know you are a LumberJock, when you’ve posted 19,000 posts on LumberJocks.com -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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211 days ago |
#672 You Know you are a Lumberjock, when you have lost everything, when you have been unemployed for months, when your wife has filled for divorse, when you know you’ll be homeless in less of two months with not a clue where to go…....but you are ready to pack your LOVELY old tools with you. -- Francisco Luna, San Francisco Bay Area. |
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211 days ago |
#673 when you hide ugly pieces that your wife bought at a craft show so nobody will think you built them |
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210 days ago |
674 You know you are LumberJock, when you went to bed without washing your smely body after doing over time on project that has to be done by tomorrow morning, |
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208 days ago |
675 You know you are a lumberjock when a “slow strip” just means too many layers of finish. -- First God made idiots, but that was just practice. Then he made schoolboards. Mark Twain |
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208 days ago |
#676 – You know your Lumberjock when your garage is something you park your car alongside of. -- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1 |
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198 days ago |
You know you’re a Lumberjock when after a days work you blow your nose and can identify the quarter sawn oak from the maple. -- Each and Every step of any project should be considered your masterpiece if you want the finished product to reflect the quality of your work. Greg Little |
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198 days ago |
I know I am definitely a Lumberjock because I have been reading these posts for over two hours now! -- Each and Every step of any project should be considered your masterpiece if you want the finished product to reflect the quality of your work. Greg Little |
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196 days ago |
When people come into my shop and say “I smells so good in here” ! -- My shop teacher said "You can do it".... Now I can't stop! |
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196 days ago |
When I show someone a project I just finished and they say “Make me one ” ! -- My shop teacher said "You can do it".... Now I can't stop! |
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196 days ago |
When they come to get the trash on Monday and the guy dumps my barrel and a saw dust cloud blows back in his face! -- My shop teacher said "You can do it".... Now I can't stop! |
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187 days ago |
When you geta sundae and they ask if you pecans and walnuts on it , your reply is “yes, give me 200-300 board feet ”. -- Frank O, Croydon, Pa |
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187 days ago |
When you sort out the big chunks of smoking chip in case there is one peice big enough for another project. -- Frank O, Croydon, Pa |
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176 days ago |
When you call the plumber to clear the shower drain to find it’s sawdust instead of hair blocking it. -- What do you mean you can't use balsa for that? |
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175 days ago |
When you would rather eat sawdust than supper -- Kent Shepherd * The goal is-----More Tools! |
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175 days ago |
#685 You know when all of your LumberJock frieds send you get well wishs and prayers on your upcoming surgery, and then send you congratulations when it’s all done. -- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com † |
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175 days ago |
#686 You know you are a lumberjock when then only COFFEE LOUNGE you ever visit is on LJ’s -- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever |
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175 days ago |
When you’d rather get more woodworking tools than a new car -- What do you mean you can't use balsa for that? |
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172 days ago |
#687 When you yell at your spouse for putting dinner on the the table saw before you find out she meant the kitchen table. #688 When you spend hours telling person how properly maintain a tool, then tell where to go buy thier own because the first carnal rule of the woodworker is not to lend out your tools. -- Frank O, Croydon, Pa |
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165 days ago |
When your wife calls you, on your cell phone, for dinner and you can’t hear it because you have your radio earmuffs on listening to the news while you are cutting 1/4 inch radii on the edges of your workpiece on your router table and, she comes up behind you and taps you on the shoulder and scares the bejeebers out of you. You’re probably a LJ. -- Walt, Atlanta....Michigan |
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164 days ago |
When you in the shop so much that you forget there is a world with loved ones out there. Walt, Be careful with that head set and for safety sakes tell everyone to not sneak up on you when your having so much fun in the shop!! I jumped just reading your post! -- My shop teacher said "You can do it".... Now I can't stop! |
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149 days ago |
When you don’t throw away scrap because it can always be cut up for inlay woods or intarsia projects. When you don’t sweep up the sawdust because it feels better on your feet than the cement floor. You pray to be put into Norm Abrams will so you can get your hands on all his shop equipment. -- What do you mean you can't use balsa for that? |
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137 days ago |
You know you’re a LJ when: You carry a chainsaw in the trunk and chase behind tornados to get those knocked down trees that fall across the road. You have an entire room dedicated to shaper bits and profile knives and still buy more and more. You plan your family vacations around online tool auctions around the country. You drive from Michigan to Arkansas to pick up an on line purchase you made from a furniture business liquidation. Purchase 29 bucks. Distance over 2000 miles round trip. Your son’s tree house is built better and has more exotic woods in it then any real house within a mile other than your own. You supervise your son’s construction of his tree house and he builds it entirely by himself with his own tools (8 years old). You dig through other LJ shop’s to steal wood from their burn bins. You have a back up tool for 95% of the tools you own….just in case. This includes all the big stuff. You purchase a tool at an auction half way across the country and then realize after you’ve won, you don’t have anywhere to put it. Then you drive to that auction just to ponder if it is possible if you knock down a wall or add-on to the basement, if you can somehow, some way find a way to get that thing in your shop. If your total tool collection is worth more then the rest of your property. If you offer to purchase the neighbors empty lot next to yours because it is filling up with your lumber. If you sell your old tools to purchase newer and bigger ones and realize that you made more money selling tools then you made from your real job. |
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137 days ago |
If you get A piece of lumber for Christmas and it makes your whole day. You start up a side business selling your sawdust to a place that makes it into fireplace blocks/logs. |
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121 days ago |
700.? – When one thumb is always bigger than the other. -- I enjoy designing not assembling. |
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121 days ago |
702 – When you have your hand X-Rayed for a broken finger and find out your finger is fine, but your thumb has been broken numerous times. (true story) -- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com |
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99 days ago |
703. You Know You’re A Lumberjock (YKYAL) when you know realize that you always start by cutting the larger pieces first and use the mistakes to cut the shorter. |
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99 days ago |
705. (YKYAL) when you read through 704 previous posts and realize that you can’t remember how many times you said to yourself…yep, been there done that. ... -- The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that our aim is too low and we reach it.. Michelangelo |
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99 days ago |
706 . you know you are a lumberjock , when your washing machine -- david ,new mexico ,allheart |
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96 days ago |
707. You know you are a lumberjock when your wife tries to convince you that family time is not spent in the wood-shop! -- Dales Woodturning Arts |
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93 days ago |
708. You know you’re a lumberjock when you love your cedar so much that after running it through the planer you even manage to make little packets of the sawdust and put them in each room of your house so your home smeels like your shop. -- Good, better, best; Never let it rest until your good is better and your better best! Mark, Windsor, Ontario |
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93 days ago |
When your wife refuses to go anywhere near a lumber yard or a tool store….you might be a LJ (709)... When your dog has wood dust on its coat and it smells like a piece of wood….you might be a LJ (710) When the power in your house keeps flickering…or the breakers keep closing because you are running too many machines at once….you might be a LJ (711) and finally: You just finish setting up your latest tool addition…and are already considering an upgrade…you just might be a LJ (712) -- Woodworking.....My small slice of heaven! |
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93 days ago |
713. You know you’re a Lumber Jock when you shake hands with someone, and they get a sliver from you. |
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92 days ago |
714. You know you are a Lumber Jock, since all your friends want to get just the smallest repair done by you, -- tuanie |
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92 days ago |
716. You know- when only your school desk has carvings around the edges. -- tuanie |
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91 days ago |
717…...you know your a lumber jock when you look forward to pickin your nose after a dusty day in ths shop…....ha…...i got one in…...grizzman -- The Grizzone |
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90 days ago |
“When the power in your house keeps flickering…or the breakers keep closing because you are running too many machines at once….you might be a LJ (711)” Guess I’m in, blue painters tape goes over the microwave when the planer is going. Figured out that the garage has two ciricuits and need to strategize what runs together on each. |
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90 days ago |
720 -- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever |
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77 days ago |
721 722 -- Dave, I wood if I could but I can't so I woodknot |
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77 days ago |
Dammit Reggiek, you hit that one on the head. “You just finish setting up your latest tool addition…and are already considering an upgrade…you just might be a LJ (712)” #723 Gotta be an LJ when you retire your desktop and buy a laptop computer so you can read the forums while in the shop!!!!! -- Dan-- Info for all @ http://www.hoistman.com |
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76 days ago |
You now your a LJ when you have two pickups in case one is in the shop and you need material. -- Frank O, Croydon, Pa |
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68 days ago |
724 you might be a lumberjock if you move to another country because of the wood -- Occie down in Costa Rica. come down and see us some time. I'll keep the light on for you Occiegilliam@yahoo.com |
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42 days ago |
You know your a LJ when you go to your friends shop and cleanup the sawdust so that you can work on a project along side him…....... -- Feel the wood and let it tell you what to make of it. |
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42 days ago |
726. You know your a lumberjocks if your all your friends have posted to this list. 727. When your wife says she booked reservations you ask her what veneers she took out of the shop. -- Frank O, Croydon, Pa |
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29 days ago |
728. you know your a lumberjock if you just read the last 727 posts…....guilty!!! -- Gordon,Sydney ,Australia..Metal for money..Sawdust for love! |
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29 days ago |
Here’s one I’ve taken to doing… 729. You know you’re a LJ if you use your dust collector to clean your dryer’s lint filter. -- Measure twice, then try to figure out which one was right. |
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28 days ago |
730. You know your a Lumberjock if you pick up shavings after using a drawknife making spindles, crumple them into a ball, and tell your kids, “We could make a lot of money selling these as firestarters!” -- Fred.... Poconos, PA ---- Chairwright in the making ---- |
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28 days ago |
730. You know your a Lumberjock if you pick up shavings after using a drawknife making spindles, crumple them into a ball, and tell your kids, “We could make a lot of money selling these as firestarters!” -- Fred.... Poconos, PA ---- Chairwright in the making ---- |
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28 days ago |
You might be a lumberjock if you have ask other lumberjocks if your quality is quality enough to be lumberjock quality….and you never stopped to consider that the term “lumberjock” sounds rather lascivious -- Dan, Sterling Alaska, http://sullcon.homestead.com/ Before you criticise some one, walk a mile in their shoes...then you will be a mile away and you have their shoes! |
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23 days ago |
When you log back on to LumberJock 5 minutes after logging off to see what new posts have appeared -- Doug, Scottish Borders |
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19 days ago |
When you see someone’s work that you like and ask them were you can get the plans. Or just build it from his posted Photo! -- My shop teacher said "You can do it".... Now I can't stop! |
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19 days ago |
#734 When you dress up like Norm Abram for halloween and instead of say trick or treat you say ” I just want to take a picture and a few measurement of your furniture’ -- Frank O, Croydon, Pa |
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19 days ago |
#735 When you cancel the appoitment with your dentist just because you have new project to start off. -- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY. |
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19 days ago |
#736 When your wood shop is larger than your house! -- I can fix ANYTHING!.... Wheres the duct tape? |
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5 days ago |
When your garage is divided into “His & Her’s” and she’s about to loose out as, “I Can’t finish her projects” without buying more tools to store on her side of the garage. Oh well, it was a good thought, now I’m stacking and sorting -on my side- to get her project completed!! Charlie502, Liberal, KS -- Charlie, SW Kansas. |
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5 days ago |
#738 -- david ,new mexico ,allheart |
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5 days ago |
#739 If you spend more time on woodworking web sites than a 13 yr old does looking for naked women If before a storm you spend days insuring the shop stays dry but forget to close the windows in your house -- John |
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5 days ago |
740 -- Occie down in Costa Rica. come down and see us some time. I'll keep the light on for you Occiegilliam@yahoo.com |
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5 days ago |
741 you know you’re a lumberjock when you’re getting laid and all you can think of is the LJ website lol -- Good, better, best; Never let it rest until your good is better and your better best! Mark, Windsor, Ontario |
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3 days ago |
I’m new here. But I just read this entire thread, and had to join in order to post this. Some of this stuff is very funny. I answered (to myself) in the affirmative many times. So I’m going to consider myself one of the brethren here even though I have spent my life doing things other than woodworking. I’m remodeling my house (which will take years), so I’m taking up woodworking in a serious way now. It’s great to find a site like this. Thanks to you all for making it what it is. |
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3 days ago |
742. You know you’re a lumberjock when you never completely finish a beverage because you know there’s sawdust in the bottom of your cup. -- "The only thing that counts is faith, expressing itself in love." --Galatians 5:6 |
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