Thread: Tea Lady has got lost

I don't believe that! The food and sharp chisels should have worked like a magnet
Ladies getting lost on the road.
LOML doesn't get lost ,we just end up back where we started and try again.
Well that was until we invested in a GPS Havent been lost since we worked out how to work it

Wagga poor town will never be the same again

Maybe TL learnt the method of map reading ?????


(Now to keep a low profile from the Axeman . . . if you see a low scurrilous cur slinking in the background, it's just me )

Wagga and Kiewa now isint there a bit of distance between the 2.

Maybe she should do as the blond does and holds the map upside down then confuses me when i look at it from the drivers side.

Maybe she thought she'd visit Vern on the way?

I'll keep an eye out for her.

she might be doing a pub crawl of all the galleries on the way

I thought I recongnised that hitch hiker wandering the roadside on the way home today

Well, I hope the Tea Lady got home OK. (How she gets around Melbourne is beyond me.) She almost got lost in my shed too!

Here are a few pics of TL at work. She was in a hurry to get home, but I made sure she made a start on a Weed Pot.

My lathe was a little high for TL, but she managed OK.

I'd like to think it was the master standing over the pupil, but alas not.

Now, what did you want to know about guinea pigs???

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Jeff, seeing the pics of your shop (greatly enhanced by TL) it's shocking that it is so clean and organized, not to mention the sheer number of turning tools lining the wall...your giving all turners a bad rep....c'mon clean up your act - throw some curlies and wood cutoffs on the bench, sawdust on the walls, etc.

Originally Posted by jefferson

... but I made sure she made a start on a Weed Pot.

What is she going to put in a Weed Pot?

Sorry, Ed, but I just had to clean up a little before TL arrived. (I even swept out in the "machine shop" which you didn't see - first time in months). I was huffing and puffing so hard that I had to have a quiet beer or seven.

As for the tool rack..... built it for me at Xmas. (Ed, he's a truly decent bloke who you should try to meet one day. Bugger can turn spindles - and other things - too.)

The rack looked great at the time, but it's now way too small. I don't know how all this turning addiction / tool slut stuff started, but it seems endless. I blame........ Um, me and the rest of the forum. Ern started it all.....

Looking back..... I probably could get by with maybe 5 or 6 chisels. But (there's always a But), I have one big skew set aside solely for tenons, the other big one for planing cuts. Three other skews for finer work, one inch down to a half. Five or more scrapers, all with different grinds and shapes for my boxes.....

Many different sized bowl and spindle gouges too.....

And I can honestly say that I use none of them overly well. I am improving though - my favourite tool at the moment is a 3/8 P & N bowl gouge (beak and all).

One thing I can say is this: women turn differently to men. I think they are more in tune with their hands - and thus don't rely so much on doing the "tango" behind the lathe, chisel handle affixed to the hip. IMHO of course.

I've had quite a few from the Forum visit me - always a pleasure. But they all turn differently!

Looking forward to an influx of visitors between Xmas and New Year.

Originally Posted by jefferson

One thing I can say is this: women turn differently to men. I think they are more in tune with their hands - and thus don't rely so much on doing the "tango" behind the lathe, chisel handle affixed to the hip. IMHO of course. Having done turning at 's, I only do the tango for big bits of wood. I also need to do another 2 feet taller to have the chisel on my hip on Jefferson's lathe. Will bring my high heeled safety shoes for xmas.

I've had quite a few from the Forum visit me - always a pleasure. But they all turn differently! So everyone finds there own variation on the theme.

Looking forward to an influx of visitors between Xmas and New Year.

And my excise for gettign lost? I was driving from Neranderra to Keiwa. Kinda diagonally across the map. All roads and signs think they know where you are going, and it wasn't where I was going. Why don't they tell you what the f&%#^ road is called on those big signs? The map has the road name on it and that is what you look for. And nowhere was there a sign saying that was Kiewa Valley Highway. :dunce: At least I won't get lost at xmas time.

I also think Jeferson must use his shed mostly for cat swinging, as there was so much room around the equipment. It must be for something.