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Things you just Don't do.

Try burning something in your wife's microwave. Not good. In my shop I now have my own appliances. I have a microwave for drying wood, an electric skillet to melt wax for dipping wood, an electric carving knife to carve mock ups from styrafoam, A hair dryer for force drying paint, a curling iron for bending wood(in fact I have 2 different ones) A liquid strainer that I use when grinding up colored chalk to color epoxy, butcher knives and paring knives that I've reground into parting tools, lots of tupperware for mixing and storing things. There's probably more I would have to go look. My wife did take the electric carving knife but I have first dibs if I need it.
 
john lucas said:
liquid strainer that I use when grinding up colored chalk to color epoxy, butcher knives and paring knives that I've reground into parting tools
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Will have to try those two things. I use the deli meat plastic boxes for storage.
 
john lucas said:
Try burning something in your wife's microwave. Not good. In my shop I now have my own appliances. I have a microwave for drying wood, an electric skillet to melt wax for dipping wood, an electric carving knife to carve mock ups from styrafoam, A hair dryer for force drying paint, a curling iron for bending wood(in fact I have 2 different ones) A liquid strainer that I use when grinding up colored chalk to color epoxy, butcher knives and paring knives that I've reground into parting tools, lots of tupperware for mixing and storing things. There's probably more I would have to go look. My wife did take the electric carving knife but I have first dibs if I need it.
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All very handy when you get sentenced your man cave. :D I also have a clothes iron for ironing veneer and edge banding. Also works well for steaming out small dents in wood.
 
I do have an iron Bill. Thanks for reminding me. I probably need a full bathroom and bed for those times when I'm really bad
 
Zach LaPerriere said:
Funny! After forgetting to bring the kitchen scale back into the house at least dozen times, I plunged and bought myself a new one a few days ago.
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Was just looking over your website, Zach......great job of it, looks great! :D

-----odie-----
 
Bill Boehme said:
I'm glad that Odie mentioned this. I looked at it and was very impressed by the professional quality. I was especially impressed by the video. You certainly have a lot of energy to excavate your basement by hand.
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Thank you, Bill. Much appreciated. As with many here, I'm motivated by a deep love for the wood we work with. I wish I had the same energy for hours of sanding as digging my basement out! I'm considering a new shop now, and haven't quite decided if expanding under the deck is the best route or a new building. Living in the forest, off the road system makes everything take longer here. But I'd never complain—living in the forest is a huge gift, and having ocean access to miles of wild forest is just amazing.
 
Bill Boehme said:
I'm glad that Odie mentioned this. I looked at it and was very impressed by the professional quality. I was especially impressed by the video. You certainly have a lot of energy to excavate your basement by hand.
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What video......?

To me, it says Zach's youtube channel doesn't exist......
 
Zach LaPerriere said:
Thanks for catching that, Odie! We'll get that fixed tomorrow.

Here's the correct link: https://www.youtube.com/c/ZachLaPerriere
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Bill Boehme said:
There two videos. They are working for me. Here are links to the pages that contain the videos:

About Me

How our bowls are made

You can also go to the bottom of the home page and find these links.
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OK, thanks Zach and Bill......I've seen them now. I didn't realize those were links to videos at the bottom of the main page. Zach is a little more "in focus" for the the rest of us.....quite the character, and an appreciated contributor to the forums..... :D

-----odie-----
 
Ditto. A very well done, engaging video that really makes a positive statement about you and your work. Also, it's nice to see somebody else turning in Wall's coveralls!
 
Thanks, guys! Much appreciated.

Dean—I still don't own a turner's smock and I may never will. Insulated coveralls are the best! In winter, a down parka goes over. Much below freezing, and it's a down coat under the down parka. :D Maybe that's why I'm thinking about building a new shop...
 
hockenbery said:
We get out the winter coats for 70.

My personal thought is to never live in a place where they think 40 is warm any time of the year.
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How's Irma treating you, Al? Hope all is ok.....:D

-----odie-----
 
I rather have some snow and cooler temps than have a couple of hurricanes come through :eek:, keeps our population down somewhat to :), so I can have my own lake to go fishing on:D, 40 is OK, - 40 keeps me inside though, but it only got to - 39.4 last winter so a relatively mild one for here :D, we have had a few days this month with temps down to 35F, it’ll get cooler ;)
 
odie said:
How's Irma treating you, Al? Hope all is ok.....:D

-----odie-----
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Appreciate your concern.
Irma went right over us but was weakened a lot.
For us it is mostly inconvenience & the company of 6 evacuees who are staying with us.
We lost 18 shingles from the roof and couple small trees. Huge oak went down in the neighbors yard.
Electricity is out but we have a generator.

Still some flooding on local roads but this is still just nuisance in our area.
Little creeks normally 20 feet wide are a mile or two wide but 18" deep most places because we are so flat there are few places where high water can form.

South Florida, the coasts, and river flood planes have a lot of damage.

All in all for us a lot like a bad winter snow storm in many ways with no danger of hypothermia.
 
hockenbery said:
We get out the winter coats for 70.

My personal thought is to never live in a place where they think 40 is warm any time of the year.
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That's funny, Al! Just think of it this way...we never overheat, and there's absolutely no need for A/C!

And Gerald (sorry I can't figured out how to respond to two posts) it was a lot of work to pull all that stock out...but 2 1/2 days of chainsaw work and sledding out gave me a couple cords of amazing old growth stock. As mentioned in my video, the alder I salvaged is upwards of 120-130 years old—when the official record is 80 to 100 years. Amazing wood, slow spalted... it was worth it!

Just look at this sunburst pattern in this rough bowl!

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Zach LaPerriere said:
That's funny, Al! Just think of it this way...we never overheat, and there's absolutely no need for A/C!

And Gerald (sorry I can't figured out how to respond to two posts) it was a lot of work to pull all that stock out...but 2 1/2 days of chainsaw work and sledding out gave me a couple cords of amazing old growth stock. As mentioned in my video, the alder I salvaged is upwards of 120-130 years old—when the official record is 80 to 100 years. Amazing wood, slow spalted... it was worth it!

Just look at this sunburst pattern in this rough bowl!

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I enjoyed the adventure of all of you getting this special tree Zach, getting out into the bush is something I have always enjoyed, but my hauling nowadays is just dead trees for firewood and the quad is doing the hard work.
 
Leo Van Der Loo said:
I enjoyed the adventure of all of you getting this special tree Zach, getting out into the bush is something I have always enjoyed, but my hauling nowadays is just dead trees for firewood and the quad is doing the hard work.
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Thanks, Leo. I'm glad you can still get out, and that's what quads are for! I have several good friends who are older than my parents and they each tell me to enjoy it while I can—so I do my best to follow that advice.
 
hockenbery said:
Appreciate your concern.
Irma went right over us but was weakened a lot.
For us it is mostly inconvenience & the company of 6 evacuees who are staying with us.
We lost 18 shingles from the roof and couple small trees. Huge oak went down in the neighbors yard.
Electricity is out but we have a generator.

Still some flooding on local roads but this is still just nuisance in our area.
Little creeks normally 20 feet wide are a mile or two wide but 18" deep most places because we are so flat there are few places where high water can form.

South Florida, the coasts, and river flood planes have a lot of damage.

All in all for us a lot like a bad winter snow storm in many ways with no danger of hypothermia.
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Glad to know you are OK, Al. I wonder how our other friends in Florida fared. How is Rudy Lopez doing?
 
Thanks Al I've been wondering about all the turners in Florida and Texas. I guess right now they are all involved in just getting home to see how things are. Here in Tennessee we just had some moderate winds. Just enough to knock a tree down over the power lines and kill our power for about 4 hours. On the plus side it is a moderate size abrosia maple and I'm going to cut some up today.
 
Your not hearing much from the Florida & Texas turners because they are out scavenging
tree trunks, root balls, and logs for future turning projects. :-) They have a massive clean-up
task in each of the area's hit by the hurricanes after the waters recede. I talked to one of the
contractors we bring in for "turnarounds" and they have been working 120 hours a week and
they just hired an additional 300 electricians to work on recovery projects in the Houston area.
Anyone looking for work can find employment in these area's if they have any skills to speak of.
Florida just announced they will basically need to rebuild the entire electrical grid along the coast.
This will have a major impact on lead times and inventory levels of industrial, commercial and retail
building materials across the country. Anyone involved with construction projects will see interruptions
of expected lead times and deliveries of materials for many projects. The campus facility I work at has
a number of expansion projects in the works and many of the equipment/material suppliers are already
extending lead times on delivery of these building materials. What was a 6-8 week lead time is quickly
turning into 30-40-50 week lead times. You should see manufacturers across the country hiring additional
personnel in many of these facilities to address the backlogs.
 
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