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Mark Hepburn

Bobble Box

Simple box, with finial. I think it's red elm. Anybody who is certain I'd appreciate their help on that.
Dimensions about 3.5 x 4 not including the finial.
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odie
Nice one, Mark.....:)

"Bobble"....meaning it wobbles on the base? The thought just occurred to me that if you added lead shot to the base, you could really make that bobble lean!....just a thought out of my crazy mind!

Anyway, welcome back to the "vortex", Mark......you were missed! :)

-o-
 
odie
vortex

vôr′tĕks″

noun​

  1. A whirling mass of water or air that sucks everything near it toward its center.
  2. A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it, and hence being inescapable or destructive.
  3. A whirl of fluid.
  4. A mental condition known to afflict someone who buys a wood lathe!
 
Mark Hepburn
odie said:
Nice one, Mark.....:)

"Bobble"....meaning it wobbles on the base? The thought just occurred to me that if you added lead shot to the base, you could really make that bobble lean!....just a thought out of my crazy mind!

Anyway, welcome back to the "vortex", Mark......you were missed! :)

-o-
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Hey Odie! Thanks so much. Ya know, I really missed being here. I spent months rehabbing one hand and then the other, then the other one again. It was maddening having to relearn how to do stuff but that's all behind me now.

Yes, it wobbles on the base. I have a little video but don't know how to add it to my page. That lead shot idea is something I may try. I like the wobbling boxes and did one for the Beads of Courage a couple of years ago.
 
Mark Hepburn
odie said:
vortex

vôr′tĕks″

noun​

  1. A whirling mass of water or air that sucks everything near it toward its center.
  2. A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it, and hence being inescapable or destructive.
  3. A whirl of fluid.
  4. A mental condition known to afflict someone who buys a wood lathe!
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Yes, back in the vortex! Where I am very comfy if a little crazy for it...

:-D
 
Will Armstrong
odie said:
A mental condition known to afflict someone who buys a wood lathe!
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I did a deep dive on the Google and found the following:

- It says individuals are often unaware of the onset of the affliction at the time of lathe purchase.

- That it is an obsessive and progressive affliction characterized by the subsequent purchases of often unnecessary items including but not limited to: tools, accessories, materials, equipment, books, countless varieties of sandpaper and other various sundry items.

- Other symptoms include but are not limited to:

- long periods of self isolation in the basement, garage or woodshed,

- sudden jerking of the right leg on the brake pedal while sighting a downed tree or roadside wood pile

- talking in the sleep with random mutterings of seemingly unconnected and obscure words such as crotch, fingernail, jaw, pith, mandrel, ogee, spurtle, banjo, burr and burl.

- The affliction has a secondary effect on the immediate family who slowly adjust to the accumulation of dust throughout the household and ever-growing collection of turned items occupying most available flat surfaces throughout the household.

- This affliction often continues for the patients entire remaining lifetime and at present there is no know cure.
 
Mark Hepburn
Will Armstrong said:
I did a deep dive on the Google and found the following:

- It says individuals are often unaware of the onset of the affliction at the time of lathe purchase.

- That it is an obsessive and progressive affliction characterized by the subsequent purchases of often unnecessary items including but not limited to: tools, accessories, materials, equipment, books, countless varieties of sandpaper and other various sundry items.

- Other symptoms include but are not limited to:

- long periods of self isolation in the basement, garage or woodshed,

- sudden jerking of the right leg on the brake pedal while sighting a downed tree or roadside wood pile

- talking in the sleep with random mutterings of seemingly unconnected and obscure words such as crotch, fingernail, jaw, pith, mandrel, ogee, spurtle, banjo, burr and burl.

- The affliction has a secondary effect on the immediate family who slowly adjust to the accumulation of dust throughout the household and ever-growing collection of turned items occupying most available flat surfaces throughout the household.

- This affliction often continues for the patients entire remaining lifetime and at present there is no know cure.
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Yeah, I read that too. :D:D

Well done, Will!
 

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