You know you're a lumberjock, if/when......

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

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

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/

No. 11: your wife chides you for not wanting to throw any piece of wood away.

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/

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.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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

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

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/

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

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/

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

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

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

#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/

No. 32:
Whenevever your friends, or neighbors are going to throw out some lumber, or a piece of wood, they call you first.

-- -** 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

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/

Can’t look at a piece of furniture with out crawling under it to see how its built.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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

knotty…knotty

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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/

No. 38: You save all the untreated wood chips to place around your roses or other plants
as not to be wastefull with the bi-products of your projects.

-- "Have you hugged your pet today?" ---------- Larry

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)
No 40. You try to think of ways to recycle your sawdust. (Like making your own presto logs)
No 41. You make 10 (ten) 6 sided pencil holders but refuse to sell them at a crafts fair because a) they’re a matched set b) you intentionally bought enough pencils to fill them all and placed them through the shop so you’ll always have a pencil at arms lenght
No. 42 You ask the neighbor for his used fence boards because you can make something out of them
No 43. You ask the folks at your wood supplier if you can scrounge through the dumpster for spare wood.
No 44 You ask them for their dunnage (stickers under the wood units) because it’s cherry.
No 45 Your friends or neighbors brag about a new tool and you realize that a) it isn’t as good as yours. b) it isn’t worth what they paid for it. c) they could have gotten it for a better price, d) they could have gotten a better tool for a cheaper price.
No 46. You turn your spare bedroom into a shop so you wont have to go outside, or to the garage. Or just so you can work on projects in your slippers.
No 47. You melt your wife’s unscented candles down and mix it with the sawdust you have put into her bread making pan. (I thought it would come out easily, afterall it was teflon coated).

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

No 48. You insist on using wooden pencils, because the mechanial pencils are just “wrong”
No. 49 You make your own tooth picks
No 50. You buy something just so you can tear it apart to see how it was made and then insist on making one just like it (only better)
No 51. You keep telling people that Titebond II is the greatest invention ever
No 52. You start looking for titebond in 5 gallon buckets because you’ve already gone through 2 gallons and the year isnt over yet

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

No 53. You can tell a sawdust by the taste of it in the air

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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
No 55. You can tell the front from the back of a box you made because the back has a pin hole in the back that you repaired and nobody can see it except you.
No 56. You buy wood that you don’t need just because it’s there and you had some spare cash
No 57. All of your Christmas presents are hand made by you and all you want for Christmas is money so you can buy more wood or the right tools and you don’t trust anyone to know quality tools as well as you do.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

No 58. You get insullted when someone buys anything without first asking you if you could make them one.
No 59 You believe in your heart that particle board is a commie plot even though you’ve thought about trying to figure out how to make your own out of the 4 barrels of sawdust you already have.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

No 60. There are no such things as scraps because you insist on making your own dowels
No. 61 After cutting 1o board feet of lumber into 1” strip[s you decide to glue it back together
and No. 62 (my last one for a while) You look at a tree root that is smaller than a pencil and wonder “What can I do with this?”

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

O.K. so I lied …
No 63. You know you’re a lumberjock when a family member calls you to tell you they just bought a new house and your first question is “How’re the cabinets?”

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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 †

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 †

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 †

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

You’re really on a roll Obi – 53 is one of my favorites of the bunch.
On that note,..

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/

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/

Whew! Frank:
You had me worried there for a minute, I thought you were going to say you took the log and left the wife on the Island. Of course, you would send someone back for her. Glad to you have on board, keep posting.

Mark

-- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com

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 †

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!

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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/

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.

Ooops that was No 77…..

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 †

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/

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

NO. 81 You know you’re a Lumberjock if all the gloves you own are fingerless. Jockmike2

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

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 †

I’m still trying to figure out how Karson gets wood chips in his hair?

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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

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 †

I think he’s referring to “What Hair?”

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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
No. 83 You can tell a brand of tool from 1/2 a block away by the color
No. 84 You buy a tool you don’t need just because it’s on sale
No. 85 You spend your last $20.00 on a board just because it’s “purdy”

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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 †

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/

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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

-- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com

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

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 †

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

No. 90:
You can’t imagine buying something for your loved ones for Christmas, you just know they would rather have something you have built for them. At least you hope.

No. 91:
You over promise to your spouse about all of the Christmas gifts you will make this year so she doesn’t need to go shopping, and then you struggle to get all of the projects finished the last weekend.

No. 92:
You are just about to throw a piece of Hackberry firewood in the stove, and notice that it has some Spalting on the side, and you can’t burn it.

No. 93:
You enjoy your lumberjock friends so much that you have to remind yourself that you need to get off of the computer and back to work on those Christmas gifts you promised in No. 91 above.

Goodnight folks,
Mark

-- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com

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

-- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com

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/

5 more and we’re on 100. amazing

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE, THIS HAS BEEN A HOOT! IT’S NICE TO SEE THAT I’M NOT THE ONLY WOOD FREAK

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

ha. that 101 is cool, Obi! Merry Xmas to all Christmas LumberJocks.

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka

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/

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).
They’re great magazines,especially when it comes to buying the Lumberjock you know the best tools tested. (Leave them laying around for your wife to see, with the tools you want circled)

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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…

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

No. 105 You just might be a lumberjock if you go to Church with your tape measure on your belt.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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/

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/

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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.:))

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

No. 107:
You are sick and tired of your wife’s cats always being under foot whenever you try to walk outside.

No. 108:
You love your dog, and enjoy taking a break from the shop to throw a stick for him.

-- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com

MARK !!! PRAY… that you wife never stumbles onto this site and reads that last one. hahahahaha !!!!

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

Why, she loves the Dog also. Have a great new year Obi.

-- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com

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 †

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 †

110:
...when just about everyone you know received something hand made the shop for Christmas!

Happy new Years everyone!

-- www.darrylmasterson.com ~ www.darrylmasterson.etsy.com

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.”

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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

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/

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

-- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com

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/

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.
No. 1. YOU MIGHT BE MARRIED TO A LUMBERJOCK, IF HE/SHE’D RATHER BE WORKING IN THE SHOP THAN TAKE YOU OUT TO DINNER. (Now I’m confused. Since I’m not blonde was that funny?)

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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/

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

And that’s easy for you to say Don, I havent heard from Mark’s wife yet.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

Wait was number 1 and number 2 the same? I’m feeling twinges of “Blondness”... or old age…

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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”.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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

Dennis, sounds like your wife is a Lumberjock

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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.

-- http://rjoneswoodworks.com/

No. 114 You just might be a lumberjock if …get an adrenalin rush at the smell of sawdust

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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

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

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

No. 116 You just might be a lumberjock if … The Lumberjock Logo on your website is bigger than anything else.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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 †

You weren’t really taking care of business, you just wanted to read in peace, and you KNEW nobody would bother you there;)

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

No 118. You just might be a Lumberjock, if food drips on your sawdust covered shirt and you consider the sawdust another “flavor”

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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 †

No 120: You might be a lumberjock when you find yourself telling a guy you like his legs.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

lol @ Dennis… too funny

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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/

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”

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

or you get on your computer by Logging on

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

or tell people to “Stick” around

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

get “Hammered”, “Nailed”

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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/

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

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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

That was No. 128

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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

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)

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/

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

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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)

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/

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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/

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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...

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

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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

why not? right color, and it gets hard

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

No. 139 … You know you’re a lumberjack when your nightmares are decorated with IKEA furniture.

-- Thomas Porter, Phoenix, AZ, www.thomasporter.com

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/

You know you’re a lumberjock when your yearly magazine subscriptions total more than you make in a week

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

That was No. 141

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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/

tell me it is not so, Don… tell me it is not so!!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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

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

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/

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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)

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

And drive said truck to Church… Where those who don’t know you think the worst.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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/

147:
When you’re running out of space to store your back issues of old woodworking magazines. Example: 199 issues of Wood Magazine, Workbench Magazine since 1957.

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

148:

when you no longer get slivers and bleed because you have both so many calouses and dryed glue on your hands

-- Dusty

149:

When you always spell the word would like “wood”.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/

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

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/

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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,
But, I guess that’s only fair.
Sap running in their veins,
But, it’s of a very good grain!
The men chew wood for lunch,
They are a knotty bunch.
Whenever they cut and saw,
The Lord does bless them all!

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

aaaaaaaw
gotta love all these women behind the lumberjocks!! (And all the female lumberjocks of course)

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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/

#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.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

#157 You might be a lumberjock if you think sharpening a wooden pencil is considered woodworking

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

No. 159 You know you’re a Lumberjock when all of the wood pieces in your home have been altered.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

Or is that when you have made all the wood pieces in your home?

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

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/

No. 160 you know you’re a lumberjock when you use your Shop Apron when you BBQ

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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

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 †

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

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/

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”?

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

Nice Legs Obi!

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

This Guy IS a Lumberjock

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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)

One way to get yourself a motorcycle..

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Most frames have a VIN# stamped into or attached to them. I wonder if this guy had to register the frame.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

Wonder if the state would consider it street legal…

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

(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

oh yah :)
vision.. it’s all about vision

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

#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.

#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.

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.

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)

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.

hehehehe dang.. there goes another one!!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

ah hello.. anyone out there?? It’s been 2 minutes and I have nothing to read!!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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/

That happened to me

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

My first chip? I’m a newbie. What’s that mean?

-- Paul, Texas

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/

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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 †

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

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

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

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,
Jim at Clark Customs

-- James Clark

#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)

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)

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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!! :)
(Makes a good brush for small spaces)

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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

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/

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#196 You may be a lumberjock if your kids use titebond 2 for paper crafts instead of elmers.

-- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah

#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

WOW … Drew’s been here 1 day and I get the feeling he just might be a Lumberjock

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

So, Drew… are you glad to be here or what?

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

#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

#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

#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

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

#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

#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

this is too hilarious.
Phil- #201 is hilarious.

Well done everyone.
(Drew.. I’d say that you are officially a lumberjock) haha

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

drew not only are you a lumberjock you may need some professional help.just kidding

-- Phil, Chattanooga,TN

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!)

#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

hahah Drew.. I think you are supposed to be listening to the Minister!!! hahah

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

#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

#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

#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 †

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.

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 †

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

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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/

#209 You know you’re a LumberJock when… you get pieces of sawdust in your bread dough!!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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.

(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)

#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

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.”

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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)

trust me… take down the whole tree

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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

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/

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/

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

haven’t you noticed how quiet I’ve been???

i’ll pass the hat—anytime!!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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/

#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

Scott – you are too funny. I think my must be right re: US/ Canadian conversion.

Hmmm I wonder how that affects measurements on plans?? !!!
No wonder Rick and I prefer flying by the seat of our pants over following plans!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

#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

#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.
Yes, I’ve seen some your shop pictures….I am still too embarrased to post mine. It would take a month of cleaning to get it to the worst of yours.

-- Greg - Charles Town, WV

#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?

#222 You might be a lumberjock when you think masking tape is just band-aids on a roll!

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

Did you just do that Dennis?

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

I was inspired!

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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

Way to go Shack, getting in the groove already.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

#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

#227 If you live in “Lumberton, MS”.....

-- Jimmy

#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!)

#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)

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

haha @ chip the blade.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

#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

#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

No 234. You might be a Lumberjock if you get the Sunday paper just for ads on Furniture you can make, or
Tools you can buy on sale.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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

#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)

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

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/

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

priorities, huh?? Assuming the operation is/was for you – I hope everything is well

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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

you’re due for a break…call it vacation time and spend your spare time (recovery) at Lumberjocks.com and looking for future projects.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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/

#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

#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

#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,

#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 †

#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

I have to apologize for my last entry,
I was only trying to be funny. I’ve never kicked a cat in my life. All of our neighbors cats seem to congregate in our back yard. They love our back yard, it’s a regular cat sanctuary.

-- -** 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

It never crossed my mind that you would kick a cat..
I thought it was showing the desperation that we reached while waiting for LJ to come back online.
I laughed.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

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

#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

#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

hahaha you know you are a saleman when …..... you post a #248 lol!!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

#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.

#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??! Oh, I wasn't hoping you wouldn't notice that!)

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

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

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

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)

No. 252 you might be a lumber jock if your “Dream Home” is above the shop

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

Glad to hear you got your loft in!

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

#253 “If even the suit you wear to weddings and funerals has a little glue spot on it”

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

oh say it isn’t so !!!! lol

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

#254…(?) If you know Obi’s or Mot’s real name??

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

#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/

#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?

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

#257…If you order a pizza by the board foot.

-- RonR, Massachusetts

#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""

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

#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.

#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

Matt…you been peeking into my shop….? How did you know?

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

And talking to my wife.

-- A man who moves mountains starts one stone at a time.

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

oh you men!!!!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

#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

#263…If you find your self dumpster diveing for wood to reclaim.

-- bryano

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

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

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

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.

That would be number 272 I think.

Did you get the wood?

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

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.

273 – You know 15/64” when you see it.

-- Dave J. Oakdale, MN

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!

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

275 – You had to recut that 15/64” piece. And you bought a caliper.

-- Dave J. Oakdale, MN

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/

#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
and finding that someone you know already has joined…
you stay up till the wee hours of the morning just so you can finish reading this thread.

-- whoever invented the hole... knew nothing.

#288 – When even your wife starts to point out bits of wood in dumpsters.

-- We Mackem and Tackem.

289
You know you are a liumberjock when you miss getting covered from head to toe with wet and juicey chips and bark when turning a freshly cut walnut log.

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

#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

#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

all tooo funny!! lol
“Porter-Cable the LumberMutt” lol

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Hmmmm. Might have to name my next dog DeWalt.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

#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