Curious about age of members. I'm 71

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Posted my age in another message......if I remember correctly, I am 87.  (as of last month)

Very interesting. This thread was started in October 2021, yet it popped to the top of the list because it is the latest thread to be posted on. If I want to see the latest post shown in the index (John Pappas), I can just click on the highlighted date above John's name. 

I'm 74 this year, by the way, knock on wood.

I'm 84. BIological age is different from chronological age. I still work every day in the shop, when I'm not doing watercolors.

I am 77 and age and medical maladies are creeping up.

I'll be 92 in Sept. and still make furniture if people want it.  Otherwise I do a lot of carving caricatures to get me into my shop everyday.

I'm 62.  Was just puttering around with wood working for a long time.  When I retired from USAF in 2008, and stopped moving around, I was able to get a better workshop together and advance my skills some.

Also, in the local area, is the USAF Academy and it's wood hobby shop.  So I have access to some bigger machines, namely the jointer and planer, and that's a real blessing.  I operate the shop on Sunday afternoons, as a volunteer, and tech introductory woodworking on Wednesday evenings, also as a volunteer.

I was 39 when this thread began, however I have been that age for many years, ever since I decided to give my birthdays to my wife as a gift. How generous am I?  Unfortunately, she did not like the aging effect it had on her, and has returned them all. So now I am 73. Still working full time in my psych practice (less one day for paperwork, which I can do in the workshop if I prefer). Passion and creativity will keep you mentally young.

Regards from Perth
Derek

I'm 84. Work every day in the shop. took a fall a few days ago going down the last few steps and sprained something in my legl. But I keep going. Have to walk little Rosie dog three time a day come rain or shine. I've gone back to turning recently, which does hurt my back if I tense up at the lathe. I think woodwork keeps me alive.

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I'm 82. I started woodworking when I was 13 years old. I made a veneered cigarette box for my parents. Neither of them smoked but in those days hosts always put out cigarettes for their guests. At age 15 I convinced my mother that if she paid for a table saw and sander I could make nicer furniture for my bedroom then the interior decorator that she had used before. I have done much challenging woodwork since. After retiring I started building decks with a retired friend.

@rlipeles,
Assuming you are Ralph, you have made over 700 posts using your full name over  the years.

Click here to provide me your current email address, and I can set things up so you can login using that name and the forum will show credit for all the contributions you have made over the years.

Thanks!

Ah, to be 71 again. I've made it to 76. Still woodworking on smaller projects like benches and canes (which are popular among my cohorts). A little under the weather right now; stinkin' covid finally got to me despite vaccinations and boosters. Happily, it feels like a bad cold, not like the horror show of 2020.

I'm 82 now, started woodworking with a church youth group and a coping saw at age 14.

Seventy-six next month. But I'm still heading out for a 100+ mile walk from Chipping Campden to Bath in England in October. As I say "Walk a bit faster for the reaper is close behind." The picture is me after in Ballycastle NI after a rather wearing day of cliff walking. I still managed to walk on to O'Connor's Bar up the road...

I've watched that film a number of times but completely forgot about that sequence. Maybe I am really getting old and forgot about it.

In dog-years, I'm going on twelve, but that's adjusted for the average sizes of my dogs.

https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/how-to-calculate-dog-years-to-human-years/

I'm 84, and I still work every day in the shop. lately, I've gone back to turning. I am satisfied with myself in that I am currently working on a fairly large maple burl.  I had been putting it off because, to be honest, I was fearful that I couldn't handle a large burl any more. But its coming along nicely. It could  be that woodworking is keeping me alive.

79, hoping to go fast when it happens, after my wife and the cats. I still like woodworking, LOL

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