Old Tv shows

11/21/18, 12:46 AM #1

Bobinak
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Old Tv shows

Bobinak

Anyone else besides me watch older movies/tv and get distracted by the woodworking in the background?

Just wondering? Sometimes I'm in awe!!

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11/21/18, 11:40 AM #2

Jack Guzman from Maine
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My wife and I will be watching something and I'll pause the program and back it up to look at a particularly interesting windsor chair.(DVR) It happens alot since I started building them.

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I am a carpenter by trade.Also a handyman/Jack -of-all-trades.I work around my neighborhood mostly helping people keep up their old houses.I have a fairly large woodworking shop in my house where I work with both hand and power tools. At the moment I'm focusing on Windsor chairs building.I will build most anything if needed. I'm always learning,adapting,changing trying to broaden my woodworking skills.I work mostly with hand tools in my shop but will use power if it is a better way to get the desired result. My wife,Donna,and I live in the woods of Maine with our dogs,cats,and birds. We have 5 grown kids and six grandchildren. Woodcentral has been central to my growth as a woodworker. I pass through this place every day.

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11/21/18, 3:40 PM #3

John K Jordan
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Yikes, I hope I don't have to start watching TV for inspiration! I haven't watched an hour of TV for 12-13 years. I think I'll just find web sites. Asheville NC is not far, I'll be going again soon - galleries, Biltmore house.

JKJ

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11/21/18, 3:52 PM #4

Ralph Lipeles
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The newer shows also have some interesting woodworking. I watch NCIS. It was very enjoyable the episode where they showed Gibbs working on a vintage Shopsmith 10ER. I have one just like it. I also remember another episode where one of the agents was on a dock. He was sanding some trim to appear that he belonged there. Gibbs noticed and told him to "sand with the grain". I'm guessing that he ad libbed as he was a carpenter before getting the NCIS job.

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11/22/18, 12:20 AM #5

Kneale Brownson
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He has a boat he's been refinishing or building...

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...through several seasons.

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I’m a fairly spry 82-year-old who had been a reader/participant at WoodCentral since the demise of Badger Pond. I started visiting BP to learn something about finish for a project I’d completed and became hooked on internet forums as a way of increasing my knowledge about all sorts of topics. I have been a moderator for a couple other forums on subjects I enjoy. My interest in woodworking began in the early 1970’s when my wife and I had contractors add to our house near Traverse City, MI, and I ended up doing the trim work to reduce mounting costs. I had no tools. I bought a P-C skilsaw, hammer, screwdrivers and one of those wooden miter boxes with a backsaw. I made trim for windows and doors from one-by lumber and started my woodworking career. At the same time, I started a 50-year career as a ski instructor. I got onto the night shift at a mental hospital so I could ski days, and spent my 30s and 40s with that schedule. I eventually replaced the PC-upside-down-in-a-board with a real table saw and began the purchase of enough equipment to fill a jam-packed 40-foot shipping container we used after we sold our property in Michigan. The ski instructing had taken us to Colorado and we were spending too much on maintaining utilities for two homes. A couple years ago, the dozen years spent at 10,000 feet of elevation was making my body produce too many red blood cells, so we had to leave my “forever” home in the mountains and we moved back to Michigan. Now I have to find myself a shop space for all those tools in the container.

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