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Mark A. DeCou

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1133 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:
1. You carry three bandaids in your shirt pocket everywhere you go.
2. You sneeze and blow your nose all evening.
3. You can’t decide whether to put a piece of wood in the woodstove, or make something out of it.
4. No matter what you’re wife wants from a store, you say, “don’t buy it, I can make it.”
5. Your wife says, “I know you could make it, but will you make it?

you get the point. I’m sure you have many others that are better, so share them.

thanks,
Mark DeCou
www.decoustudio.com

-- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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Mark A. DeCou

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1123 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 - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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Mark A. DeCou

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1123 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 - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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scottb

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1076 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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davebrown

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1068 days ago

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

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scottb

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1066 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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dennis mitchell

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1065 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.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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darryl

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1065 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 ~ www.woodworkingdungeon.blogspot.com ~

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Mark A. DeCou

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1064 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 - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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scottb

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1064 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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darryl

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1064 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 ~ www.woodworkingdungeon.blogspot.com ~

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scottb

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1058 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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doug

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1057 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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Mark A. DeCou

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1043 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 - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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Dick, & Barb Cain

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1034 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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pat sherman

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1034 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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Dick, & Barb Cain

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1019 days ago

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

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scottb

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1019 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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dennis mitchell

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1004 days ago

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

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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Mark A. DeCou

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998 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 - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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dennis mitchell

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scottb

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998 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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Larry

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962 days ago

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.

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

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Obi

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961 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)
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/

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Obi

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961 days ago

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/

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Obi

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961 days ago

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

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

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961 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
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/

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961 days ago

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/

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Obi

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961 days ago

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/

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Obi

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961 days ago

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/

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Karson

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961 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!

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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Karson

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961 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.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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Karson

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961 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.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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Obi

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957 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.

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

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scottb

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957 days ago

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/

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frank

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956 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

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Mark A. DeCou

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956 days ago

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 - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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Karson

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956 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.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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Obi

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955 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!

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

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955 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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Ronl

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937 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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Ronl

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937 days ago

Ooops that was No 77…..

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Karson

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933 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.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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scottb

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933 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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Dick, & Barb Cain

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932 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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932 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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Karson

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932 days ago

Mike is that even the rubber gloves?

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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dennis mitchell

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932 days ago

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

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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jockmike2

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931 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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Karson

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931 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.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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Obi

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930 days ago

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

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

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Obi

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929 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
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/

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Karson

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929 days ago

Very Funny guys!

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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scottb

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929 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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Obi

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927 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.

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

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Mark A. DeCou

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926 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

-- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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Shopsmithtom

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926 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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Karson

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926 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.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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Martin Sojka

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925 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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Mark A. DeCou

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925 days ago

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 - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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Mark A. DeCou

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925 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

-- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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scottb

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925 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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Martin Sojka

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5 more and we’re on 100. amazing

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

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Obi

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924 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.

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

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Obi

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924 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

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

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Obi

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924 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

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

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Obi

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924 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

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

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Obi

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924 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

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

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Obi

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924 days ago

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/

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921 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.

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

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Martin Sojka

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921 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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Don

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921 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.canterburybaptist.org/

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Obi

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915 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).
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/

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915 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…

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

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Obi

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915 days ago

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/

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Don

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915 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.canterburybaptist.org/

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scottb

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915 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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Obi

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915 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.

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

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Obi

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915 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.:))

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

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Mark A. DeCou

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915 days ago

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 - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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Obi

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915 days ago

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

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

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Mark A. DeCou

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915 days ago

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

-- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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Karson

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915 days ago

No 108: When you put out a roadside sign for everyone to see and be able to find you.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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Karson

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915 days ago

Sorry that one was 109!!!

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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darryl

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915 days ago

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 ~ www.woodworkingdungeon.blogspot.com ~

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Obi

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915 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.”

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

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Mark A. DeCou

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914 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 - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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Don

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914 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.canterburybaptist.org/

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Mark A. DeCou

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914 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

-- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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scottb

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914 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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Obi

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913 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.
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/

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Obi

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913 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.

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

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Don

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913 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.canterburybaptist.org/

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Obi

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913 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.

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

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Obi

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913 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.

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

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Obi

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913 days ago

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

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

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Obi

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913 days ago

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

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

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dennis mitchell

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910 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”.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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Mark A. DeCou

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909 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 - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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Obi

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909 days ago

Dennis, sounds like your wife is a Lumberjock

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

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RJones

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904 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.

-- http://rjoneswoodworks.com/

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Obi

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903 days ago

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

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

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Mark A. DeCou

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903 days ago

NO. 115: “you think reading moisture content in wood with a 2-Pin Meter is fun!”

-- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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Obi

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903 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

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

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Obi

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901 days ago

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/

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Karson

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900 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.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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Obi

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899 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;)

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

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Obi

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892 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”

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

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Karson

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892 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.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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dennis mitchell

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889 days ago

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

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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MsDebbieP

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889 days ago

lol @ Dennis… too funny

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Obi

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889 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.

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

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scottb

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889 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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Obi

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883 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”

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

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dennis mitchell

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883 days ago

or you get on your computer by Logging on

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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Obi

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883 days ago

or tell people to “Stick” around

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Obi

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883 days ago

get “Hammered”, “Nailed”

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

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Obi

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883 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

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

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scottb

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883 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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Obi

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878 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

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

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Thomas Porter

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878 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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Obi

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878 days ago

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Obi

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877 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

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

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Bill

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876 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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MsDebbieP

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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.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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scottb

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876 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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Obi

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875 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

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

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MsDebbieP

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875 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.”.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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scottb

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875 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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Obi

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875 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.

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

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scottb

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875 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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Obi

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875 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.

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

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Corndog

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873 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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schroeder

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870 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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Obi

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870 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.

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

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Thomas Porter

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870 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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Obi

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870 days ago

why not? right color, and it gets hard

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Thomas Porter

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870 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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scottb

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870 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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Obi

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870 days ago

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/

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Don

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869 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.canterburybaptist.org/

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MsDebbieP

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869 days ago

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

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Bill

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869 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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schroeder

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869 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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scottb

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869 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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Obi

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868 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.

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

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143: you know you are a lumberjock when you carry a piece of wood for your next project – in your finger!! OUCH

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Dusty

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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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Obi

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

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

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scottb

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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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Dick, & Barb Cain

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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

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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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Don

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149:

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

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

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Dusty

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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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scottb

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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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Obi

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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/

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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!

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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MsDebbieP

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865 days ago

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

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Obi

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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/

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scottb

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862 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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dennis mitchell

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#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

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Obi

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

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

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Obi

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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/

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Obi

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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/

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Bill

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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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scottb

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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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Obi

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

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

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DrSawdust

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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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Karson

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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.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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Brandon

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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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scottb

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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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Obi

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847 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”?

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

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MsDebbieP

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842 days ago

I wonder if he made it out of “scraps” :)

(oh and re: # 169—add “chests” to the list. )

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Bill

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842 days ago

One way to get yourself a motorcycle..

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

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Obi

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842 days ago

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/

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Bill

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842 days ago

Wonder if the state would consider it street legal…

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

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Paul

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(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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MsDebbieP

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842 days ago

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

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Chip

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#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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Chip

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842 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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Chip

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842 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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MsDebbieP

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842 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.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Chip

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842 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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MsDebbieP

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842 days ago

hehehehe dang.. there goes another one!!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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MsDebbieP

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842 days ago

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

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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scottb

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842 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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Obi

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842 days ago

That happened to me

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

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Paul

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842 days ago

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

-- Paul, Texas

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scottb

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842 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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Obi

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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/

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Karson

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Number 176, You might be a LumberJock when you prefer www.Lumberjock.com over any other web site.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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Bill

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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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Jeff

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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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Jeff

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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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clarkcustoms

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837 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,
Jim at Clark Customs

-- James Clark

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MsDebbieP

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#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)

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Obi

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837 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)

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

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MsDebbieP

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837 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!! :)
(Makes a good brush for small spaces)

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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scottb

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837 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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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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Obi

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

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

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Obi

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

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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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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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rentman

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837 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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WayneC

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#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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MsDebbieP

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837 days ago

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

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

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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rentman

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836 days ago

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

-- Phil, Chattanooga,TN

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Woodwayze

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836 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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Drew1House

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#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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MsDebbieP

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835 days ago

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

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Drew1House

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#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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WayneC

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831 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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Karson

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831 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.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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Chip

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831 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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Karson

21154 posts in 1151 days


831 days ago

Well I gave you credit. LOL

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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Obi

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830 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

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

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scottb

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829 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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MsDebbieP

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829 days ago

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

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Chip

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829 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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MsDebbieP

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829 days ago

(and you’d know they were LumberJocks – they’d be the ones laying al over, dazed and disoriented!)

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Bill

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829 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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Obi

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829 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.”

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

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MsDebbieP

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829 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!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Obi

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829 days ago

trust me… take down the whole tree

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

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cheller

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828 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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scottb

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828 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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scottb

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828 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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Obi

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828 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.

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

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MsDebbieP

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828 days ago

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

i’ll pass the hat—anytime!!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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scottb

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828 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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WayneC

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828 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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MsDebbieP

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827 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?? !!!
No wonder Rick and I prefer flying by the seat of our pants over following plans!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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WayneC

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827 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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Greg3G

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827 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.
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

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Drew

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827 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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dennis mitchell

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827 days ago

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

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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Obi

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827 days ago

Did you just do that Dennis?

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

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dennis mitchell

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825 days ago

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shack

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825 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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Bill

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825 days ago

Way to go Shack, getting in the groove already.

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

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ShawnH

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

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Wooder

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824 days ago

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

-- Jimmy

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Woodwayze

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824 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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MsDebbieP

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824 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.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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johnnybwood

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824 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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MsDebbieP

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824 days ago

haha @ chip the blade.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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ShawnH

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

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ShawnH

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824 days ago

#2—If the term boards for work made you laugh or scratch your head, you might be a LJ.

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

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Obi

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824 days ago

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/

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Bill

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824 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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MsDebbieP

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824 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.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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johnnybwood

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824 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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scottb

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823 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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Greg3G

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812 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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MsDebbieP

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812 days ago

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

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Obi

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810 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.

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

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Greg3G

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810 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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Obi

2189 posts in 988 days


810 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.

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

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scottb

3338 posts in 1078 days


810 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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Greg3G

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810 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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roundabout22

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800 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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PanamaJack

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800 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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Karson

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800 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.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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Dick, & Barb Cain

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800 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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Dick, & Barb Cain

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799 days ago

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

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MsDebbieP

13434 posts in 911 days


799 days ago

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.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Obi

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799 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

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

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Mark A. DeCou

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769 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 - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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Martin Sojka

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769 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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Martin Sojka

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769 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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MsDebbieP

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768 days ago

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

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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hermanv

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768 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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Paul

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767 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??! 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

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Mark A. DeCou

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765 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 - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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Dick, & Barb Cain

6380 posts in 1050 days


765 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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mot

4892 posts in 787 days


765 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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Obi

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752 days ago

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

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

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dennis mitchell

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752 days ago

Glad to hear you got your loft in!

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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Obi

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752 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.

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

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miles125

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751 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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MsDebbieP

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751 days ago

oh say it isn’t so !!!! lol

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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PanamaJack

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751 days ago

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

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

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scottb

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751 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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dennis mitchell

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751 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?

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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RonR

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751 days ago

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

-- RonR, Massachusetts

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miles125

1313 posts in 756 days


751 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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WayneC

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704 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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Aubster

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704 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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mattsanf

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702 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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PanamaJack

4449 posts in 828 days


702 days ago

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

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

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Aubster

118 posts in 779 days


702 days ago

And talking to my wife.

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

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mattsanf

34 posts in 714 days


702 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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MsDebbieP

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701 days ago

oh you men!!!!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Thos. Angle

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701 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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bryano

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684 days ago

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

-- bryano

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windofthewoods

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683 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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windofthewoods

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683 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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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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Russel

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682 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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Bill

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That would be number 272 I think.

Did you get the wood?

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

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Russel

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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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DaveJ

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

-- Dave J. Oakdale, MN

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Dadoo

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671 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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doyoulikegumwood

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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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DaveJ

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

-- Dave J. Oakdale, MN

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scottb

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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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shapeshifter

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#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.

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pitbull

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

-- We Mackem and Tackem.

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DAN

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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

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Christopher

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#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)

-- Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam

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Christopher

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#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!

-- Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam

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MsDebbieP

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

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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WayneC

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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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WayneC

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#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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pmulry

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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Drew1House

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#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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Dano

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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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scottb

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Sounds like #302 to me Dano…
proving we exist to the missus… my wife surely thinks the same thing…

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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scottb

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#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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MsDebbieP

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Congrats, Drew, on the 300/300.
Congrats Scott on the 2000 Club :)

(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)

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Robb

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#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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Rob

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#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

-- http://www.damnfinefurniture.com

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Rob

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#307 On Wednesdays you go shopping and have buttered scones for tea!

Rob

-- http://www.damnfinefurniture.com

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MsDebbieP

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665 days ago

lol Rob.. 307 is extra funny

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Bill

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665 days ago

Oh no, here comes the song again!

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

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shapeshifter

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#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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Drew1House

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(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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amesgang

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661 days ago

You run out of room and start storing scraps on the stairway to your shop.

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scottb

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661 days ago

that was 309, which sounds a lot like #310 in my house:
You store longer boards (that can’t make it down the stairs) in the front hallway, or infront of the kitchen cabinets “Just for today” which stretches out long enough to collect the “other” kind of dust.

-- 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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MsDebbieP

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661 days ago

isn’t it amazing how something sits in a place for a short time and miraculously you no longer see it

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Dale Robinson

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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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Proclamator

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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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Drew1House

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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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Drew1House

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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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Mark A. DeCou

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#315:

“You can’t figure out why the neighbor lady slapped you.
All you said was, ”boy howdy, what I could do with that big Ash of yours.”

sorry,
Mark

-- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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MsDebbieP

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#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”

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Tailor

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#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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Tailor

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#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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MsDebbieP

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644 days ago

hahhaah #317 has me laughing – still …

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Peter O

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625 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

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Peter O

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625 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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A.W. "Pappy" Ford

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#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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brad

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#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.
I wonder if jeff foxworthy will pick up on the and develope a whole new craze?

-- Brad,--"The way to eat an eliphant is one bite at a time"

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cajunpen

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#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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cajunpen

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622 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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Mark A. DeCou

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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

-- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

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MsDebbieP

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#325 … when you are checking out what’s on TV, see a program called “Domino” and you think it is a show on woodworking.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Woodwayze

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#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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miles125

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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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dennis mitchell

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...cleaning anything requires an air hose!

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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Obi

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#329 YOU MIGHT BE A LUMBERJOCK IF YOU FEEL LIKE A FAILURE FOR HAVING LESS THAN 2000 POSTS

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

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MsDebbieP

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quality, Obi.. quality, not quantity :)

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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DAN

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  1. 330

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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Peter O

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605 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”

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Shopsmithtom

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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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WoodWright

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331. When someone talks about a wireless router, you ‘correct’ them by saying, “No, that’s cordless router!”

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WoodWright

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333. You think sharing a joint means two or more L Js doing a glue-up together.

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WoodWright

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334. You think “logging on” must refer to some forestry activity.

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WoodWright

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335. You suppose the Chairman of the Board must be in charge of the lumber.

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WoodWright

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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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WoodWright

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337. You have at least five magazine subscriptions with the word “wood” somewhere in the title.

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WoodWright

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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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WoodWright

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339. You have at least one stray power tool in the living room at all times.

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WoodWright

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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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WoodWright

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340. You think of Mixed Nuts as using Beechnut, Chestnut, and Walnut all in the same project.

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WoodWright

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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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WoodWright

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342. Your compost is made of vastly more wood shavings than grass clippings, and you have a very large yard.

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DAN

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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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Karson

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Woodwright. My wood chip pile

With Mineral Popular on the left. Holly in the middle and Goncalo Alves on the right.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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Drew1House

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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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Peter O

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603 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

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DAN

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#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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Lee A. Jesberger

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  1. 348

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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349. When you spend $500 to build a shed just for wood scraps that are not even worth a fraction of the cost.
350. When a friend tells you can make their grandson a rocking horse & you wouldn’t know where to start let alone know how to draw a horse.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

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Donna Menke

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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:
351. You know you are a serious woodworker when you have wood sawdust and shavings in your bra.
(Hah- bet you guys never thought of THAT one!!! LOLOLOL

-- "So much wood. . .so little time!" www.woodworks-by-donna.com

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Karson

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You are right Danna I never thought of that.

#352 You might be a LumberJock if you have sawdust and shavings in your Jock.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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Russel

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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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miles125

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#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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miles125

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#354 If your friends accuse you of wearing clothes designed by Norm Abrams.

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

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DAN

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595 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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scottb

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595 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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Kevin Violette

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595 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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Betsy

2291 posts in 647 days


595 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.

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miles125

1313 posts in 756 days


594 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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MsDebbieP

13434 posts in 911 days


594 days ago

(Russel.. for safety reasons, I wear a bra when woodworking… lol)

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Obi

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593 days ago

Donna
  1. 363 You might be a lumberjock if (as a man) you all of a sudden view a bra as “Safety Equipent”.

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Obi

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593 days ago

  1. 364 You just might be a lumberjock is every article of clothing you own has glue on it.

#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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Obi

2189 posts in 988 days


593 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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Olaf Gradin

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588 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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odie

1536 posts in 591 days


588 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)