newbie 101: easy-clean clothing?

bare foot? sounds painful. at least the skew won't chip if it falls on them. (not like the grit coated floor in the school shops)

All rather ridiculous, really. Like we'd ever come to divorce over a mess in the house. She's a terrible housekeeper. So am I. We have a vacuum cleaner around here somethere. I used it in August I think. I think we dusted everything back in the 20th century.

If there's one thing my wife and I agree on, it's that "I'm not going to do any housework."

One day I will be discovered, and I'll make millions as a GQ model, then we can hire a housekeeper. I'm just waiting for the Hank Hill look to come into fashion.

I'll just let that one glide by, since we don't want to start another riot.

I'm too sexy for my shirt... I ought to do this once just to see everyone's reaction. :)

A leaf blower works very well to rid your home of any dust. Who needs an expensive vacuum anyway?

Been there, done that. Was turning last summer with sandels. Yep...I dropped the skew and went into the top of my big toe like an arrow. Hurt like hell. Went into the house, put on a bandaid and got out the boots. NEVER again...

Peter Teubel Milford, MA

the skew and went into the top of my big toe like an

boots. NEVER again...

Did the same thing with a carving gouge when I was a kid, except it went into the upper part of the foot. A couple of hours and a tetanus shot in the ER later and I'd learned my lesson. I always wear shoes or boots in the shop. I guess we can always re-grind or replace a chipped skew, but it's much more difficult repair a chipped toe. My son, however is stubborn and hard-headed. He wears sandals or soft mocs, and will only get the boots if I remind him. Wonder where he gets the stubborn from?

its not THAT hard... and material can sometimes be found VERY cheap..

--Shiva--

Sure, why not? I'm at the sewing machine heming my wife's skirts while she is watching football on TV. I got started back in the

70's with those sew-it-yourself Frostline Kits when I was in high school. It was a cheap way to get cool sportswear at the time.

Peter Teubel Milford, MA

Actually, I *know* how to sew, if you force me to admit it. I just hate it immensely. Sewing machines are fiddly, cantankerous beasts, and sewing by hand is too tedious. I don't have the patience for any of it.

A friend of mine is a professional armor smith. He can craft you a suit of beautiful splinter deflecting armor :-)))

Cool! I guess the only down side here is that he probably wants a pretty good hunk of change in exchange. :)

Silvan, My wife Patty came up with a solution to my problem of shavings hitting the belly. I live in SW Florida and although my studio is air-conditioned the temperature never goes below 76 degrees. I sweat a lot. The shavings seem to always hit me in my middle-aged belly and stain my shirts something awefull. My wife was always complaining about the stains and ruined shirts. I tried a turning smock but the material used in the smock was not cool to wear and only made my perspiration problem worse. Patty came up with a design for a turning smock that has open sides and is made of material that is cooler to wear. It has a soft collar with a velcro strap that I can tighten to keep the chips from going down the neck. It also has velcro closure straps to close up the sides of the smock. I have found it quite comfortable to wear and it keeps my clothes clean. We are so happy with her smock that we are going to market it. She calls it the "Turning Tunick". It will make its debut at the Florida Woodturning Symposium on January 9th. If anyone is interested email snipped-for-privacy@aol.com and in the subject line type "turning tunick" and I will answer your inquiry.

Bill Sullivan Fort Myers, FL

Well turn around is fair game I guess. My wife asks me to do something and it never quite gets done. Finally got her pegboard for her kitchen aid stuff up. Her hobby is making quilts and she cranks them out, so I guess I am luck getting the new shop apron.

Bruce

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Well, at least I wasn't drinking.

a long shirt, and cargo pants, with button down cargo pockets, the shirt covers the top pockets, and all the shavings take a downward trip witout getting into anything, and the pockets take sheets of sandpaper nicely. I think it works great:)

in article snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com, R. Bruce Ferguson at snipped-for-privacy@pacbell.net wrote on 1/5/04 12:40 PM:

Shavings-filled pockets on the apron can be avoided by the simple expedient of having the wife put a flap of fabric over the top of them, secured along the top and on the ends as well, or, just along the top and fastened down with a dot of velcro.

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