Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
Lucas shop
John K Jordan
The Incredible Evolving John Lucas shop looks different from the last time I saw it.
I had a great visit yesterday!
A lot of thought obviously went into the layout and the detail organization is well under way. (When you get done organizing I need to hire you as an organizational consultant for my shop!)
JKJ
Re: Lucas shop
Lyle Jamieson
Who is that guy in the last photo, must be John's son, looks to young to be JL.
Looking good
Geoff Whaling
the shop that is. ;-) Hopefully it will stay that organized & clean. Its always a pleasure & an honor to be invited into another turners or wood workers shop no matter how modest or lavish it is.
I'm off to collect a pack of rather special very white Queensland Silver Ash today and have contacted a mate to drop in and help him out a little more with his tool sharpening skills.
Re: Lucas shop
john lucas
Yea I love visiting other artists shops. You always learn so much. Same thing when other woodworkers visit you. John and I had a great time and I'm pretty sure we solved most of the worlds problems. Now if we could just remember what we talked about and how we did it we'd be in business.
John may have solved my chip carving problems. We'll see. Won't have time to try it until next week sometime. Seems like my knives were just the wrong angle making me hold my wrist funny and it has arthritis anyway so maybe this will be the solution.
Geoff, when you turn miniatures like I do, what I call a mess is probably just one good pass across a bowl for a bowl turner.
Re: Lucas shop
Geoff Whaling
Yes, remembering is the key.
Most days my mess is one or two small dust pans worth at best. Its the fine dust off my table saw that I am having trouble capturing. Poor machinery design doesn't help.
My day travelling to pick up about a 1/4 of a cum of timber will be a long one, about 500 km or five hours of driving, but it will be very rewarding timber wise and catching up with an old mate, well at least 20 years older than me. ;-)
Looks like a dream come true John!
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Mike Peace
Looks, great John. I know you are feeling good about being up and running.
yes I am- designing a new piece this morning
john lucas
There are digging a new field line for my septic tank. Do you remember that movie The Money pit with Tom Hanks. I'm starting to feel that way about this house. It's been one thing after another.
