Epiphany vis a vis Swmbo

5/27/04, 1:22 AM #1

Mike G.
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Epiphany vis a vis Swmbo

Mike G.

>I've been fighting it for quite a while and I don't know why. LOML has been bugging me to show her how to use some of my tools so she could make some decorative boxes and such. Why was I being so dang hard-headed, LOL. The more I get her interested in woodworking, the more tools I can justify buying...Doh!!!

My wife isn't really interested in using hand tools and wants to learn how to use portable power tools. So tonight, we started with the basics, making a box with rabbeted back. I sawed the boards with my WW2 vintage D8. Then I showed her how to use my router to rabbet out the edges for the back. Then I showed how to glue and screw the top, sides and bottom together.

Tomorrow evening we will work on the door. She wants to make a small wall cabinet with a tin or copper punch door.

Except for having to work outside where it was so muggy, it was actually kind of fun. So, tell me again how dumb I've been, LOL.

Mike G. in the muggy foothills of S. Carolina

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5/27/04, 1:25 AM #2

Mike G.
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Mike G.

>Oh, and to top it all off, I saw a friend of mine who happens to drive a Budwieser delivery truck and he gave me a six pack of a new brew. It don't get no better than that. :)

Mike G.

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5/27/04, 11:43 AM #3

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>As long as she learns how to care for the tools as well as their usage, it sounds great to me. Personally, I would teach her sharpening first and let her practice...a whole bunch! I would love to have my wife involved in my workshop but we would each need our own bench and tools. Otherwise I'd never be able to find anything.

Have fun!

Steve Kubien

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Re: Epiphany vis a vis Swmbo

5/27/04, 11:57 AM #4

Scott in Douglassville, PA
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Tin punching?

Scott in Douglassville, PA

>I bet her tool purchasing budget exceeds yours pretty quickly... ;)

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5/27/04, 6:33 PM #5

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>I bet she'd say the same thing about finding things...

My only worry about getting LOML involved in what I do would be that she'd know enough very quickly to question why I need two or three of something. Better for her to have her passions (pottery and photography) and me mine, so I can get away with buying fourplicates of particularly useful or lustworthy tools.

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5/27/04, 9:00 PM #6

Mike G.
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Mike G.

>Scott said;

I bet her tool purchasing budget exceeds yours pretty quickly... ;)

You reckon?...:)

Mike G.

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5/28/04, 6:31 PM #7

-e-
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Congratulations -

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>in addition to your marrying her, you made another good choice in opening up your woodworking world to her ... i hope she(&you)enjoy the experience.

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5/28/04, 6:57 PM #8

Scott in Douglassville, PA
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Re: Tin punching?

Scott in Douglassville, PA

>Ever see a tin punching catalog? That's an expensive hobby...

'Course, I strive to be a bottom feeder, so my opinion isn't worth all that much. ;)

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5/28/04, 11:45 PM #9

Mike G.
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Mike G.

>Scott said;

Ever see a tin punching catalog? That's an expensive hobby...

'Course, I strive to be a bottom feeder, so my opinion isn't worth all that much. ;)

Heck, she can buy her tools the same place I do!...Ebay, flea markets, and live auctions, LOL.

By the way, I'm a bottom feeder, also. I have Hip Pocketis Crowbaritis.

Mike G. who has to pass up a tool auction to work...:(

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