Just wondering, do You do any woodworking now?
In Junior High School and High School I took Wood Class(s).
Built a Cedar Jewelry Box in Junior High and built a small Table in High
All FB on the journey Ed! My dad knew a guy in the Air Force who was a Ground Power maintainer like him at Kadina AB and when a general had them at inspection and was complaining about some issue this guy stepped up and said, "I can fix it." It was way outside his particular job assignment, but that bit of courage and the aptitude built from other things he had done earned him a field promotion and a stripe that day. Mr. Bartlett survived his Vietnam experience as did my father and came home to work in technical and engineering rolls.
Now, as for me, no not so much in the wood shop anymore. I was always more of a mechanic than a carpenter and an electrical and plumbing more than framing. I love my skill saw, and my bench vice but the lions share of tools here are wrenches of various sorts used to keep our cars running, and stopping! I'm just getting to a point where I'm comfortable enough to say, I'm paying someone else this time, but there was a solid 20 years of oil changes and brake jobs and head gaskets and wheel bearings and all the odd stuff that popped up in-be-tween... I had a VW Vanagon for a while and it left me with the impressions that perhaps the Germans were not defeated after the war after all..but it was a god little truck for me and did a lot of work for the fee of pushing it out of the woods and pop starting it. I had to do a starter job and there was a lot of clean up but that was a good deal. My wifes uncle who was a DoD worker abandoned it as too much work on the property. Well it smelled of mouse pretty badly but after I made it road worthy I drove to the dump and unbolted the bench seats (it was a transporter not the camper) and shoved them out the back. Much lighter and less smelly I went back over the scales, paid my fee and collected the title from Walter. Years later the situation reversed and I was in the other part of the state and had no way to take care of the VW and someone solicited him for it and he went and sold it out from under me, mailing be a silver dollar and asking that I send the title on to address X. It was a good lesson in letting things come into my life and letting them go from it.
Fun theater story! I worked as a stage hand part time here for a few seasons. Electrician was my title but we got asked to do other stuff as you did once it's known you're good for it. Worked some shows as a dresser, and everyone is a lumper when the show come in and after last curtain. Elmira is a little town but we get off Broadway touring shows and have a yellow card from the union that lets us employ non union labor as needed for productions. It's good in theory but it means someone walks over to the buss stop and waves around some cash and you get what you'd expect from that!
I figured South Paw was probably left handed. My mom set the table backwards according to my dad, but she was quick to say she was in her right mind at least.
Have a great weekend,
Mal
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It's no wonder I see those folks shaking their head(s) as I walk
away. You too (probably now).
Hi Ed,
In a message to N2Qfd you wrote:
Ed if people didn't shake their head as you walk away there is
something wrong with you. LOL
Hijacking the post a bit as I"m interested in an aspect of wood working, While I'm not handy enough nor have tools to do anything like furnature
I carve small little whittles to pass the time. I've been working on chess figures for the last year and a bit and the goal is to gift them to a friend of mine who will still play a "teaching" game with me when in reality he knows every move I'll make after the third move. LOL
I took a short break from that when Doug Linker (a carving guy on you-
tube) did a tutorial on carving little blueberry's with faces, and that's been a lot of fun for a couple weeks. :)
Shawn
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nails so they would go in (about) the center of the frame (using a
Square Ruler) and we got the job done.
You are hand carving Chess pieces , that sounds like much more than I would try doing. Good Luck!
Good luck learning Chess.
As a kid when I played Checkers with my brother we would get Colored
and White Buttons out of the Button Box for our Checker Pieces.
Hi Ed,
On <Mon, 18 Aug 24>, you wrote me:
Good stuff, I don't even think I could pull the dog house off anymore, I know at one point I knew how to do that basic stuff.
It's not that hard, Just remember this is a gift, so it doesn't need to be perfect,
heck so far not even my pawns are identical. They are close and you know what they are, but that's about it. :)
I'll never be good at it, I just play enough to keep my kid happy and she's teaching my grandson so I need to be able to stay sharp enough to give
the 8 year old a game. ;)
I remember doing that at my Grandmother's house.
Shawn
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When I got in High School I didn't like setting in the seat in the Auditorium during pep assemblies, so I stood by the Stage Door after assembly waiting for the Principal so I could ask if he needed anyone to be there during assemblies and He showed me the Sound System and how to operate the Lights etc., I liked it better than sitting in the
Shawn, I would think making the Knight(s) would be the most difficult consuming task At work I played chess with a guy who used the Knight
Doing it together, My Wife made up for what I lack, and I did what
was difficult for her to do.
This phone only lets Me see four lines of text, and trying to scroll
up to read earlier text sometimes has caused what I was typing to
vanish.
All stories about Me are true, telling it as it happened is so bad no
one has to make up anything to add when talking about Me.
Funny Ed,
Similar here. I was a stage hand in school and after that there was no more pleasure in the audience for me. Even later when I worked as an assistant to the Rabbi locally through COVID and keeping weekly services going for people it's awfully hard to go back to simply a spectator.
As for folks thinking your an odd duck, well I often remind people that the only place you're apt to find "normal" in the wild is on a washing machine...
Mal
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Hi Ed,
On <Tue, 19 Aug 24>, you wrote me:
They are the most fun to carve too though. ;)
That's team work!
I could not imagine trying to read/write echomail on a phone. Even on
a larger tablet that would make me crazy. :)
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Shawn
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