I filled mine in, despite being shy. I notice most of you don’t. Surely you can’t be more shy than me?
Go on, I dare you.
Lataxe
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In the past I was conceited, now I'm perfect...
You mean in the past you were flawed, but now you're perfect.
You must be so proud. Like a father with a newborn child. Wonderful feeling, huh? Yeah, I know.Griff
Truly convinced of course, to only "feel" it would concede the imperfection of being possibly mistaken !! :)
I filled mine, I tell as many people as possible about my woodworking I like the look they get when I tell them i'm only 15, lol.
Ryan
Metod,
You ask, "Of course, you can work on getting rid of 'feeling special' - what's going to be next, if you succeed"?
Freedom, of a most profound kind - although I do like the ladywife to love me, even when I bait her a bit (well the cat gets away with it).
As to the "speck" thing - I'm doing a cosmology course at the moment and, believe me, its humbling.
Lataxe
Edited 5/22/2006 5:41 am ET by Lataxe
Lataxe,
I haven't for several reasons not the least of which the questions/fields are just so stupid and irrelevant. Does anybody here give a crap what my astrological sign is? Political stance? Height?
I think KNOTS web designers lifted this baloney from an internet dating site and they should be ashamed of themselves for it. Taunton should know us better than that. The fields should be stuff like:
what sort of work do you do?
what sort of work do you want to do?
amateur or pro?
hand, power, or both?
geographic location?
If you want to have goofy stuff add a section for favorite tool, least favorite tool, favorite project, least favorite project.
Adam
Adam,
Although I took the few minutes to fill out the profile, the same thoughts were going through my little brain - what kind of questions are these for woodworkers? They did look familiar, however....Classmates.com perhaps?Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. Frank Lloyd Wright
Adam, I have to agree with most of that, However, a lot of people will write in for advice with problems that LOCATION holds the answer to the question that they need answered. Someone in Moab probably is experiencing totally different moisture related issues than someone in Houston, and both could be right in their advice but not for each other.Also lots of people ask for supply help without telling their location. Sometimes they may be thinking about buying a tool. I may know of an auction in your neighborhood, but I won't bother answering because I don't know where you are. Location matters. Go fill hat in now....... thanks
Adam,
Yes, the fields are rather childish in places (although I confess to enjoying the opportunity it gives to be silly, immature as I am).
Of course, it might be possible to subborn the persoanl statement field, say, and enter what you like. But perhaps Syops will take note and you will have catalysed a FWW change of policy about the profiles.......?
Or perhaps a new thread in "Magazine Likes and Dislikes" is in order? What field do we all want? Your list is a good start.
Lataxe.PS, I just changed mine to a WW-orientation.
Edited 5/22/2006 4:00 pm ET by Lataxe
Edited 5/22/2006 4:21 pm ET by Lataxe
"Newbie seeks hot woodworking chick with big shop and lots of tools for LTR. Willing to relocate. Must like dogs, beer, and have reasonable grilling skills."
It was wrong of me to be so dismissive of the fields in the KNOTS member profiles. I was unaware that my astrological sign (capricorn) is essential to KNOTS members in California. I apologize for my oversight.
To my friends out that way who may be struggling to answer my woodworking questions or make sense of my answers, I'm sorry I haven't provided enough information. I hope this remedies the situation:
organic: Yes
macrobiotic: No
Pretty sure when you live in NEW JERSEY you get to pick on other states occassionally!
Adam Cherubini
Cinnaminson, NJ
You missed an essential category Adam that I'm just gagging to know the answer to-- Metrosexual? Slainte.Richard Jones Furniture
How essential are the grilling skills?
It's a typo...he meant "girling" skills.
very...
no carne asada, no love. :-)
Sorry for the late reply. This is the first time I've checked in on this thread.
I agree with Adam. The profile fields are pretty silly in some cases and I'd rather see information more related to woodworking. Unfortunately, Taunton doesn't have the ability to customize these fields. We're bound by what Prospero provides.
A few months back we made one attempt to have these changed but it got pushed back due to our busy schedule of site upgrades.
This thread is a good reminder to get it back on the agenda.
Matt BergerFine Woodworking
I agree with FG.
Come on people! At least fill in your generic location. I don't need to know your address but it would sure help to know your general location. A description such as north central Arkansas or near London or Bagdad is sufficient.
Why? It is simple. Take a question such as "how much shrinkage/expansion can I expect from an oak table top?" The answer is different if one lives on Cape Cod versus Phoenix versus Dublin.
A bad day woodworking is better than a good day working -- yes, I'm retired!
I filled in more here than I usually do.
What I really would encourage people to do is fill in their location. So many questions have geographical aspects to the answers! I could care less what sign someone is, or even when they were born, but sure is nice to know what part of the country (or world) they're living in.
Jamie, From Bainbridge Island, Puget Sound, WA
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Edited 5/22/2006 10:29 pm by forestgirl
You're right...I'm gonna fill mine in right now...
"I'm gonna fill mine in right now..." Hoo-ray!forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Lat, I used to advocate this quite strongly, but I notice some people can come up with the wierdest reasons for not giving information on their profile.
I have now become blase about this, especially as things keep getting changed and "facts" on profiles are incorrect: such as the fact that I joined in 2005 and have posted 27 times. Actually I joined in 2004 and before changes had about 800 posts (for what it's worth).
BTW, did you visit those two addresses that I gave you tongue in cheek?
Philip,
I viewed your Lovely Articles at the web site you posted but I noticed that your planes may have one or two design issues. I feel the only way that these will be resolved is for you to send me (an unprejudiced plane-novice) 2 or 3 to test, on a semi-permanent basis. I will report back on their perfomance after a year or 4's usage. There will be only a small charge. :-)
Your campaign furniture is lovely stuff too. Co-incidentally I have been knocking out aformosia clock mounts for a local jeweller and the various brass banding, corners and such had their brass screws both lined-up and polished flat to the wood. There I was thinking myself a bit of an anorak for doing this, but you're worse, you neatmeister you!
Perhaps I should add a campaign chest to my list of future projects. I've often fancied making one but don't have anyone to give it away to, at the moment. What style of house/furnishing do your campaign furniture customers tend to have, as a matter of interest?
Lataxe
Lat,
Afrormosia , hey? I thought that stuff was verboten as too much has been pillaged /saved from being burnt for fire wood? I think this CITES list is a work of fiction....Anyway, I have a large lump of the southern African species which is nicer in many ways-due for plane handles shortly.See the set on the right-is your Afrormosia silmilar?
"What style of house/furnishing do your campaign furniture customers tend to have?" Here-none, but back at the world customers ranged from German Embassy types to farmers to B.Mats to you name it. The convenient thing seems to be that it is a style that mixes and matches well, and lends itself to adaptation. Seemed that it was popular in either dark or honey colour woods.You should make yourself a chest-just afew dovetails and drawers-and in Pomland one can get those nice brass fittings (from Italy (;))
Oh by the way, if you are patient there may be a plane for you as at the moment the local shilling is weakening and I am developing other models with exciting design issues especially for those who claim to have no money. Watch the allocated spaces!Philip Marcou
Very nice. I see you are adapting military technology re: the stealth steady rest on the lathe. What is the orange piece of gear in the background? Any chance of talking you into more shots of the shop?
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
I just love your Italian quote. A shop tour would cause consternation amongst Galoots and the modern Grizzily community alike, as there are many strange beasts there, and the shop furniture comprises only one good bench, whilst the cabinets are the packing cases I made to ship the stuff over here- I just tweaked them a bit, since in the first place I ensured that I used only prime Zimbabwe pine (yes thereare still pine plantations there, a legacy of the murderous colonial oppressors).
And in one end there now nestles a mini engineering shop where I make planes.
Oh, the orange item is the back stand idler from my belt grinder-that meanest of metal munching machines , not to be confused with a belt sander. I happen to have pictures handy- you can see different size contact wheels that go on that machine to make it very handy.The lathe near the plane handles was made in Rhodesia, by Rhodesians for Rhodesians (i.e it is heavy iron). I have included a picture of my Wadkin lathe to balance things up a bit. (Wadkin is roughly the Pommy equivalent of Oliver, only better.)
Do shop tours happen on Knots? I thought this was only a Galoot thing(;).Philip Marcou
Philip,
Aformosia recovered from chemistry lab bench tops is, happily, not verboten. One of my wood fairies (an ecologically-minded builder) spots and grabs such timber from any project with which he's involved where the "renovators" are skipping or burning what they rip out.
When the chemistry bench tops arrive, they are ugly things covered in nasty stains and burns, with tap and sink holes. However, they are large and typically 38mm thick. The planer-thicknesser does its thing and there, 1mm below the surface, is gorgeous aformosia or teak. Both are traditional chem lab woods as they resist chemical burns very well.
The aformosia is easily distinguished from the teak by its perfume when freshly cut.
The bench tops are typically 2 feet or more wide and made up of 3 - 5 planks anything up to 12 feet long. Once the planing and sectioning-out of tap holes etc. is completed, there are some very nice planks left, of all sizes and usually 34mm thick.
Unfortunately the planks tend to be unmatched so that it becomes difficult or impossible to make furniture with all the parts matching well. The attached photos of a coffee table demonstrate this. I tell myself that the nature of Mission (for instance) is that it's a primitive form and therefore the grain mismatches are a necessary feature of its design. (I am not an amateur sophist for nothing).
Please excuse the slightly blurred pics.
Lataxe
PS I am a person with no money as the ladywife has spent some of it on fern-leafed peonies and other exotic plants, with the rest locked up in something she calls her "new boots and panties" fund. I am just a poor pensioner, victim of a dress and shoe-mad woman, you see. Take pity and send all free planes to Galgate.
Phillip, What are you finishing this stuff with? Looks great.
BTW - am visiting Auckland mid August via rotorua. Lousy weather then I 'spose. Are you in that Neighbourhood?
dave
Hello Dave,
Since I "discovered" that Zinsser Bullseye dewaxed shellac sealer I have lived in fear of being without it. For those handles I merely spray on a wet coat, zap with 0000 steel wool when dry and then spray two coats of the pre catlysed furniture lacquer made in Kiwistan. Provided no insects have committed suicide in it I leave it as it is-straight out of the gun.Apart from other attributes the shellac pops the figure and slows down tendencies to darken.
You can and should visit me if you are going to Aukland from Rotorua- it is not far off the beaten track.
Weather? Can be anything. It's all imported from the South Island and Tasmania.They don't have droughts here.Philip Marcou
M,
"....using a metronome". Is that what the cardinal meant when he said the rhythm method was good?
Lataxe
Metod,
I thought metrosexual was a reference to erotic bliss achieved while riding mass transit.
Just an ole country boy,
Ray
Naughty boys! Before long you'll be posting the pictures.
Anyway, the metronome method is a bit like the rule for gym-going old f*%rts. Never show off - set the heart monitor to 220bpm minus your age or risk a breast-clutching episode (not that kind).
With the metronome method, the rule is "60 tpm minus your age", so make the most of any time you have left and don't sulk if she falls asleep.
Lataxe, now feeling a bit grubby, so stop it.
I think I need a cigarette
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
I thought that was the "Lie back and think of England" method.
Being a little older than thou I happen to know that it was for precisely these health reasons that the bells used in the UK by emergency vehicles were replaced by sirens.
David,
I always liked the bells and I can't understand what attracts sailors to the wailing and screeching noises of those sea-women they use now. Never saw the attraction in mermaids either, mind. I mean how do you [censored by the Sailors Welfare Fund].
Anyway, don't forget to reset the metronome on your birthday. I usually forget and then a white mist comes up. (Only a white mist).
Lataxe
Edited 6/5/2006 2:14 pm ET by Lataxe
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