recycling

Which you would see a lot less of if you read news somewhere other than on google groups. At present, the most off topic crap that makes it onto my news server's rendition of this group is people complaining about ads

- not the ads themselves. I have not yet personally taken the next most effective method of avoiding them, or I wouldn't see your post - junking all posts originating from google groups, which is the font of 99% of usenet spam. I do run global filters to kill posts with the usual brand names, but they rarely have much to do in this particular group.

Get a real newsreader and a real news service provider (both can be had for free or non a donation-ware basis) and you can get rid of most of the junk.

Please feel free to filter me out. I can assure you most wholeheartedly that it will not bother me a whit!

The last bit about the ads was a toss off. They don't bother me as I skip right over them. Others such as yourself are much more sensitive.

And as to being off topic, I see you made no comment as to first paragraph of my original post but then pot and kettle.

as ever

-Kevin

this is a good learning experience, but after making one, I think you will be disappointed in the aesthetics of the end result. today we don't (generally) use wood bowls for holding things where a lid is appropriate, so there is no real functional reason to do it, only one of beauty - and of the practice of making something fit accurately

I build my segmented bowls around cheep clear plastic Dollar store bowls That way the liners can be wished. And I use Mc D cups in my vases for flowers. Jerry

Isn't that called a box , in turning lingo ? Bowl with lid. Jerry

"Jerry - OHIO" wrote: (clip) That way the liners can be wished. (clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If wishing could make it so.

Spell check (washed) I have floaters in my eyes today,. Jerry

Thanks Leo for catching that. i don't want people thinking that I 'm stupid. Jerry I was born that way and won't change.

Hey Kevin,

RCW rules don't permit any more Cottage Cheese ads for two weeks especially large curd! (except by spammers). I'm kidding! Maybe you were thinking _outside the box in the greater scheme of things. Anyway, before the advent of turned art, I remember that we turned fancy wooden covers for jar lids to be glued into and we felt no need to apologize. Attractive jelly jars etc. made nice kitchen containers and the larger ones made cannister sets without all the hollowing plus we didn't have to make threads since some of us didn't know how. That was in the days before Fred's helpful instructional book, "Chasing screw threads in wood".

So why not a lidded bowl? Go for it. Sure as sensible as unlidded bowls full of holes and much more sensible than some of my failed suggestions, but turning doesn't have to be sensible. Anyone remember my abortive effort to make a cheap & dirty vacuum chucking system from a vacuum cup made for lifting glass panes & mirrors? Mercifully, you don't, but I've got the scars to prove it. :)

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

Bill you are indeed correct about generally not using wooden bowls where a lid may be required. It was a thought that came to me. Much like the one that showed up while on the pot and thinking I could use an old electric toothbrush as an engraver. OTOH, I munch on mixed nuts while watching tv at night an occasionally grab more than I can finish. Plopping the lid on them keeps them fresh for a time. And for me at least, it would be good practice on getting the lid to fit just right.

OT but did you make the John Deere bike?

I don't own that one but am building one. I have a frame and I am using a 2.4 PT Cruiser motor & auto from a car I wrecked last year. I do own the red Rupp Centair.It has a 1968 VW 1500 cc in it , original was a 339 cc Way more fun and faster !!!! Jerry

Are those two different Rupp's?

Just one,I added the black interior & changed some things on it. The pic with my granddaughter is how it is now. when I finish the mower I'll put up pic's. I am having some wiring issues with the 2.4 injectors.

Jerry

Darn good ideas!

I. And I use Mc D cups in my vases for

Are they bigger than Mc C cups?

Problem with that is you have to go in to one of those grease pits.

Yes - the Gee Mc Gee cups are even larger.

Martin H. Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net

I use the covers from store bought cakes for my chip bowls,around ten inch.in dia. Check my web page. Jerry