Whaaaaaaahoooooooo!!

**Wild Dingo** · 30th October 2005, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by soundman

Ahhh now you'll never look at even the smallest piece of wood the same way again.

too right!!

I went up there today breifly to take some pics for another thread and spotted these two long peices of Jarrah offcuts from my work yesty and thought... "mmmm 3/4 x 3/4 x 8ft jarrah? mmmm all nice and square... mmm turnin machine mmmm I wonder" must check out the size of those pen timbers I scored up at Carbatec the other day are could be a small mountain of pens there I reckon

then theres those logs sittin there in the background all nice and ready... mmm an then theres that ruddy great camphor laurel tree outside our bedroom window that really should be culled...I havent even thought of havin a go at turnin a bowl yet... oh an then theres that bloody great elm tree down near the creek OH!! an the two old willows... an then theres :eek: her garden is looking decidedly like lathe food

Yeah.. sigh... you are sooooooooooo right mate!!

**La truciolara** · 31st October 2005, 04:35 AM

well, I thing I’d read some good pieces of literature concerning the first go at a lathe. But you did wonderfully well to describe this moment of joy and discovery.

What your lathe didn’t tell you is that you now got the Woodturnensis Virus. ENJOY IT ! it is quite addictive!

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**haemish762** · 31st October 2005, 10:32 AM

Well my misses doesn't. I don't even have a lathe yet and i regail her with stories of my days at uni doing thing to timber they only talk bout. Off centre turning, threading and deep boring.
We are looking to get a dog about the same time i get my lathe; i may come inside to eat occasionally!
It gets in your blood, what can you do?

**CHJ** · 31st October 2005, 10:56 AM

Wild Dingo, You do know that from now on every wood pile, fallen branch, builders skip, community recycle skip, off-cutt bin etc. is going to be calling with a far louder voice than you ever believed possible.

**Skew ChiDAMN!!** · 31st October 2005, 07:04 PM

Once upon a time, I had a pot-belly in my shop to keep me warm in the wet, cold, Victorian winters. I used to keep it fired with the short off-cuts that had no other real use.. After all, one only needs so many blocks, wedges and pointy sticks!

Not any more! Not that I have any less offcuts... quite the opposite! But they usually end up earmarked for the lathe, along with half my neighbours firewood. Well... she does persist in buying wood that's too good to burn and I feel morally obliged to rescue it.

All I have to burn is bloody sawdust, so after a couple of winters being thankful I'm not in Tassie, now I'm building one of these: Sawdust burner

**rsser** · 6th November 2005, 06:34 AM

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

All I have to burn is bloody sawdust, so after a couple of winters being thankful I'm not in Tassie, now I'm building one of these: Sawdust burner

Neat idea.

btw Reverse cycle air con's, the box units, are pretty cheap now. The other half was happy to stump up for one to see me happy at my work - least that's what she said at the time

**RETIRED** · 6th November 2005, 09:11 PM

Welcome to the "Black Arts" Shane.

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