Thread: weirdest thing during woodwork?

I dunno about weird, but fate can be cruel...

I've been teaching a young bloke of 13 (he has a degenerative hip disease) the basics of woodturning. One day he pointed at my set of skews and asked why I never used them. I promptly spent 5 minutes explaining that they were the most "dangerous" tool to use until mastered, giving him a static demo with the lathe turned off.

Now, I've got my pride; I wasn't going to deliberately force a catch but I chose one of my punkiest pieces of wood that I knew was far beyond my skill with (or without!) a skew and spun 'er up to show him how bad a catch can be and how much damage can be done.

15 minutes later, kid forgotten, I was happily coving and beading until the drive spur chewed out the wood beyond remounting. No sign of a single catch... oh, if only I could manage that when the wood is actually /worth/ working!

Of course, the kid still doesn't understand why I won't let him use one...

Yet.

"a fair while ago I managed to complete a project with the existing toolset without need for further tool purchases"

OMG are you mad???? And you published it here!!!!

You clearly have no understanding of the possible consequences of your actions should our wives get wind of this attrocity.

As penance you must rush out imediately and purchase that tool you've NEEDED for ages.

I was working on a project in Tas Blackwood with a friend helping a few years back. We had to drill a number of holes in precise positions in relation to each other so one holes location determined the location of another etc. Well I was drilling from one side of the job and he from the other but we were getting all confused because we could not see the holes we new we had drilled until (and it took a while) that aeveral small native mud wasps were filling the tops of the holes wit mud that in the sun were drying exactly the came colour as the timber and despite the fact we knew where to look we couldnt see a damm thing. We had to remeasure and push out the little mud plugs. Whod a thunk it!


Ross

Originally Posted by Different

I was working on a project in Tas Blackwood with a friend helping a few years back. We had to drill a number of holes in precise positions in relation to each other so one holes location determined the location of another etc. Well I was drilling from one side of the job and he from the other but we were getting all confused because we could not see the holes we new we had drilled until (and it took a while) that aeveral small native mud wasps were filling the tops of the holes wit mud that in the sun were drying exactly the came colour as the timber and despite the fact we knew where to look we couldnt see a damm thing. We had to remeasure and push out the little mud plugs. Whod a thunk it!


Ross

Are you now marketing it as Different brand Woodfiller - the filler with a sting in it?

Originally Posted by craigb

I got a square cut out of my old WC2000 once.

are you sure it was perfectly straight??? did you get the engineering square out?

No wildlife here abouts, but once, I checked and found out that both, BOTH of my tape measures, when checked with my good quality 60 cm steel rule were dead on...:eek:

I promptly cut a board too short, just to placate the Dungeon gods.....