Thread: You best woodworking dummy spit ?

Having a really bad day making the timber wall frames for dad's new extension on his shed. Nail gun blew out a seal, found out can't get replacement seals, found out what it was like to nail 4 inch nails into timber frames. Bent over several nails got majorly p1ssed off and threw favourite estwing hammer away. Sat down for several minutes, cooled off remembered how much said hammer cost me and ran down the paddock trying to find it. Took me 12 minutes but I found it

Nah!
No need.
the neighbours know I'm a nutter

Just read my eMails
OR ask XXX on here, she'll tell you, I've emailed her; lovely lass.[What's she doing here :confused: :confused: ]
Eh?? Doctor "XXX"
Is it time for my pills yet :confused:

I was working,
then Chastising the kids for mucking around near powered and moving equipment.
Have them and I out with all the Safeties on.
Then and go and stick Pinkie into the 10" ELU
in Table Saw mode :mad:

Took the smallest slice of nail off of Left Index finger,
Straight away grabbed the finger with the remaining fingers on that hand,
SQUEEZED and went into denial.
The finger soon lost all feeling and I was getting up enough courage to take a Peek-a-Boo.
Blood everywhere.......I'm a bleeder; not a Haemophiliac though;thank goodness.
Practical lesson for the kids
"What not to do!"

Had a bodgy cheap junk F clamp that kept slipping at the wrong time(durring a critical glue up)got the steam up, I spat it and threw it accross the yard from out of the workshop... it skimmed off the clothesline and proceeded over the neibours fence then skimmed his shed roof and missed him by inches standing on the other side!

When I was setting up my shed I had a radio in it wrapped in a plastic bag to limit dust exposure. I have what i think is called a "mash" hammer???? (short handled 1/2 or 1/4 pound sledge hammer)

Cant even remember what I was doing to set off the event but I found that there is no stress relief in pounding a radio to death with a hammer but there are lots of pieces that can be created with repeated hammering :mad: :mad: :mad:

Originally Posted by Rowan

Cant even remember what I was doing to set off the event but I found that there is no stress relief in pounding a radio to death with a hammer but there are lots of pieces that can be created with repeated hammering :mad: :mad: :mad:

Cool.

I have put to death a computer with a sledgie, good feeling isnt it?

Al

Many years ago when I was young and silly (doing the wildman thingy) I kicked our front door down 3 times one week because swmbo didn't unlock it fast enough.

I got sick of repairing things that I stuffed up so I learned to lay back instead.

Originally Posted by echnidna

Many years ago when I was young and silly (doing the wildman thingy) I kicked our front door down 3 times one week because swmbo didn't unlock it fast enough.

I got sick of repairing things that I stuffed up so I learned to lay back instead.

I would have loved to have been your neighbour.
I would have sat there with beer in hand waiting for you to get home so as I could watch the action.

Wiiiiilmaaaaa!!!!!
Open the door......
Crash!!

Al

Originally Posted by echnida

Many years ago when I was young and silly

And now you're old and silly?

Probably one of my biggest dummy spits was when I made the first of the below cups.


I made the first one in the mid eighties. I'd taken extra care to make every part of it as good as I could at the time. I was never a real perfectionist but I tried to make it as flawless as possible. It took about 30 hours of careful carving, scraping and sanding to make. When it was done I wanted to take it and show a friend (I was quite proud of the result). I hadn't removed it from the face plate so it weighed a fair bit. After I had gotten home I was getting out of the landcruiser (for those who own one you know the older ones have a large steering wheel) when I caught the lip of the cup on the steering wheel. The lip was completely destroyed with absolutley no hope of repair. Needless to say I was pi$$ed. I don't get to upset when a project fails early on but this was finished and I had taken so much extra care to make it. I threw the face plate and what remained of the cup as hard as I could at a concrete wall, and left it where it landed for a few days. I didn't make the one in the picture till a number of years later. I haven't made another since.

MathewA, if I'd busted something as nice as that I'd spit the dummy big time, too.

Originally Posted by Grunt

And now you're old and silly?

Of course , just like you are too

I did the woodwork on my bro's T-model (replica) rod and was fitting a dashboard, hand-formed in walnut (nice, but $$$!) when I discovered I hadn't measured up properly; 'twas out by 1/2" and totally useless.

Spat the dummy, threw the screwdriver down onto the seat... from where it promptly bounced out the other side and through the front windscreen of my '55 mainline.

Not one of my better memories...

G'Day All,
In my younger years I had a dummy spit at even the hint of something going wrong, now I can see myself in my young bloke (nearly 16yrs old). So I say to him put it down, leave it and do something else and come back to it later or you will stuff it up beyond salvage. He now does this and when finished has done a very good job (he paints minatures, max hight 50mm, average 35mm). You only have your Dad to show the way (God bless him), mine had a very short fuse, now I sit back and laugh with my son retelling some of the funnier moments of both of our mistakes and mishaps!.....
savage(Eric)

P.S. I still make some beauties, but take my own advise and do something else!..

I never really spit the dummy ...... but when I do its easily fixed.....just drive up to Nimbin and take a stroll through the main drag.....Don't need to buy anything...all it takes is a few deep breaths and go home again. Quite a cheap way to relieve some stress, don't you think ? ...EXCEPT......fuel prices are going up arn't they ! :mad: :mad: :mad: @##@#$%@#$%@#$% **** !!!!! WHERE'S MY SLEDGE !!!!