Addiction cure?

Cantcha sneak on a pony trailer and get some real shop room?? *G*

Pat,

I regret to inform you.................medical science has found no cure for this mad addiction we call woodturning. The best you can do is take off the edge from time to time by feeding your addiction with a new gouge, a Oneway sharpening jig or a few prime pieces of highly figured burl.

You'll know your addiction has turned life-threatening when you go to the beach for some girl watching and say to yourself, "Look at the burls on that one!"

Barry

The family wants to go to the park for a family outing and you insist on brining along the chainsaw Just In Case.

Henry Doolittle

Yes, listen to Barry. Why, he even changed his last name from Rockefeller to what it is today!

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September 11, 2001 - Never Forget

I know a cure when you spend to much money or time on your hobby:::: Get married !!!!!!!!!!!!

Greetings Hilco (:-)

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Lemme see, "The Twelve Steps":

1) I admitted that I was powerless over testosterone, and my testicles made my life unmanageable...

Oops, wrong addiction. Maybe not.

That's what they refer to as the cure being worse than the disease! *G* If the addiction is really bad, you need to set up a trust fund with an administrator who will only dole out money according to an agreed upon monthly amount and setting up a savings account for any big ticket items, e.g., anything over $50.00! *G*

Leif

Leif Thorvaldson wrote: (clip) setting up a savings account for any big ticket items,(clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^ I have a savings account for the big ticket items that I sell. The account is empty.

You decide to absentmindedly do a little bellybutton probing and paydirt is a bunch of wood chips.

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Leo, old bud! The savings account is to put any extra cash you might save in daily life from your income accounts, e.g., job wages/salary, retirement pay, Whatever you have in that you can use to spend for the $50+ items, i.e., maybe a Glaser gouge? It is very generous of you to give away all your work, though! Maybe you can claim a charitable deduction? *G*

With a little bartop added to the collection, after you save it for about a year or so, you can get enough to mount on the lathe and turn into "art".....

Leo & Leif, I opened one of those accounts. Soon closed it due to the minimum deposit penalty.

Patarini, The trouble with curing this addiction is the growing tolerance. Last month's fix is not enough today. After all my good things were gone, I began sneaking around sleazy flea markets to feed my habit. Now I'm in the sad & lonely degradation of yard sales. If I don't find a cure soon, I'll end up being sentenced to Harbor Freight. Woe is me. Arch

Fortiter,

(clip) setting up a savings account for any big

You mean like a Stubby???

Barry

Barry: I did say the account was for any big ticket items over $50.00 A Stubby would certainly qualify. It is very simple! All you have to do is save $50/mo and in 10 years you might have your Stubby or a Great White! Now if you use up your $50 items on sandpaper and finishes it might take longer. Only answer is get the wife out working! *G*

Leif Thorvaldson wrote: (clip) I did say the account was for any big ticket items over $50.00 A Stubby would certainly qualify.(clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I guess you have found me out. There are two ways to be recognized as a turner. The first is more difficult: do good work. The easier path I have chosen is to own expensive tools, and don't show anyone your work..

I own three Stubbies and a couple of Oneways and a Vicmarc (?) and a set of $8.88 turning tools. I is a profeshimnal.

(Actually, I don't even know what these things are. I see too many zeroes getting thrown around to even bother looking at them.)

Wife is an enabler, she supports my habit.

I can't win.

Whadya mean??!! You can't win! Sounds like you already have!

Where in N.E. Ohio? I'm near Akron.

ARM