Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Old Tool retirement speech
Mark Kuzee
>I have been volunteered to give a little speech at my bosses retirement. He is a fan of old tools (as I am).
I was thinking about writing something that is full of metaphors(?) about old tools. Double meanings that I could weave into the speech.
Examples:
The "plane" truth is....
On the one "hand saw" the coming of...
You could always pull a "rabbet" out of your hat...etc.
Has anyone done anything like this?
Any ideas/suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Re: Old Tool retirement speech
Ron Bauman
>didya hear about the blind man who picked up his hammer and saw?
Re: Old Tool retirement speech
Conger � the Irish diaspora in Munich
>...or the one eyed man who was an expert in making half-blind dovetails.
BTW... one of the noble UK WWmagazines has a (good) contributor who has an eye-patch... and is probably an expert in half-blind-dovetails
BTW... BTW... do not forget the 'chip of the old block'... 'against the grain'... going at it 'hammer and nails'... 'screwing it up' (or maybe not!)... 'saw the vision'.........
You could always go all Shakespearean
Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>and say that this is someone who definitely knew a hawk from a handsaw.
Re: You could always go all Shakespearean
Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away
>Things like "Sash plane" "ash" wood can always find a place in a comical speech. Block plane too.
coarse, if he's going to retire and be and be hanging around home all day he'll probably become a "splinter in his wifes ash" :~O
Good luck with the speech, and let us know of the final draft and how it went over.
T.O.
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Jerry Nicholson
>Could you say something about hanging around too many joints or being a chiseler and a gouger and having some serious vices and still has fir to go or would that varnish the plane truth and just be barking up the wrong tree? Maybe this is his big finish and now he will just pine away but that might go against the grain or just scrape the surface and not get at the root of the problem. In any case he should cedar light and get his carcase in motion to avoid dry rot.
Jerry
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Frank Bessette
>Greetings,
I hope this is neither too punishing not too rude.
Hopefully you will be able to get all these ideas to dovetail and to dovetail with the ones you have.
I would avoid any references that indicate he is a great judge of ash or that he knows a good piece ash when he sees it. Probably want to avoid discussion of where he gets his wood or who takes care of his wood�even if inquiring minds want to know.
He who dies with the most wood might be OK.
Good luck with this.
Best...
Frank
Re: Old Tool retirement speech
Mark Kuzee
>Ok there Jerry. I'm getting a little worried about you but you have definitely got the feel of it.
Mark
Re: Old Tool retirement speech
Robert Henderson
>Grown men resorting to low pus!
I'm Ash-aimed of you!
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Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level
>I guess now he'll have plenty of time to be "sawing logs".
Tom
What I do
jim reed @ tallahassee
>The tool word game is good, but may not last long. Find out what date he joined the company and then go to the internet to find out emmy winning tv shows, top news stories, oscar winners, etc. Then throw out who was president, news events, & weave in some tool metaphores. You will be the speech king.
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Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away
>Now that's he retired it'll be nice not to have that plane in the ash kicking around anymore.
Got to work in something with sharpening too. Hmmmmmmmmm let's see, how about, "He's not to sharp but his tools soon will be".
He's gonna spend his retirement just shaving his life away.
T.O.
Re: What I do
Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away
>Oh come Jim, why re-do that ol' dull saw stuff over and over again. Boring! ;~)
T.O.