Musing about 'don'ts' that don't necessarily apply to you.

My turning advice may be iffy, but there is no doubt that my alliteration is bad. Please change " I refuse to believe" to "Don't believe". Sorry Leif and all you other wordsmiths. :) A.

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

Leif

Thank you Leif. We folks can use special dispensation here in God's waiting room. Wherever I go, I'm never the oldest and that includes woodturners. :) A.

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

Arch,

I certainly agree with your "don't #9". I used to be a little guilty of this; trying to do a hollow form, bowl or box "as good as xyz". But I know I'll never be a famous turner, I can't live long enough to get that good. Plus all that fame is a lot of pressure.

I also agree with your last statement, at least for a lot of us; however there are people who just cannot "see" a good form/design. Sort of like my inability to grasp anything regarding the computer. Form and design also falls somewhat into the catagory of "in the eyes of the beholder" because I've seen some forms/designs in well-known galleries that make me shake my head.

The only "don'ts" of my own I would add are;

1. I don't finish everything before another piece of wood is calling to me (you know how wood speaks, can't keep them quiet!).

1. I don't put tools back where I found them....arrgghhh drives me nuts!

2. I don't have patience enough to do this or that with tear out or punky spalted or ? ........ it goes in the burn pile. "Life's too short to turn Crappy wood" (quote by John Jordan: we're going to put that on a T-shirt!)

1. I don't diligently get my work out there for sale (which reminds me, I need to ask something in a new thread)(sorry, us Old people have to say things immediately so we don't forget!!)

Heck, I DON'T do a lot of things!

Fun thread, Arch, good work.

Ruth

Ruth, you may be guilty of posting wrong information. I'm not sure what famous implies, but if it means well known, well respected and well liked you are already there. So say we all.

Judging by the number of don'ts posted so far, the do's have it. Maybe a more positive list and timely question would have been "what condiments or food safe finishes will y'all put on your 4th of July hot dogs?" Naw, too jingoistic and not PC. Instead I'll ask what is the favored dish from your family's roots? I'll quietly remember my Anglo-Saxon roots with the second half of a tepid stout and the remains of a cold ploughman's lunch at our family's annual looser's picnic. Then it's on to hot dogs & a Bud or two.

I wish everyone on rcw either a Glorious Fourth of July Holiday or a glorious 4th day in July. I'm learning. How's that for indivisive PC? :)

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

Haggis, Blood Pudding (sausage) and Steak and Kidney Pie! Hold the Scrapple.

Just last year my mother taught me how to make perfect Ukranian perrogies, fried up with butter and onions (fat free; yeah, right!). My favorite brew is a local, Yuengling Lager or water.

Ruth

Mmmm... perrogies- I fry 'em in butter and onions, too. I've got a cross of random Eastern European (Austrian, Polish, and Czech) and Irish, but that Germanic blood usually wins. I like warm bitter beer and sausages (or porkchops) with sauerkraut. Of course, that's probably not what will be at the family gathering- the local fare usually includes "jello salad" (not my favorite thing in the world!) and Coca-Cola with some kind of burned chicken or hot dogs. Very midwestern stuff, inspired by Luthern church picnics, even though none of us are Lutherns...

Ah well, there's always Oktoberfest. :)

Now there's a job for a good rolling pin - pirohi (Ukrainian uses the "H" sound versus the "G") dough. Tough stuff. Matter of fact, that's what I usually have to do to bargain for home made, offer to roll the dough. Good turning project to make the cutter, too.

I'll be eating the Cornish equivalent today - pasties. Church used to do an annual sale for which I made, every year, dough cutters, rolling pins and pasty lifters (sort of a long turner) to get them off the hot trays into the bags. All of which seemed to disappear every year in spite of the fact that the women were familiar with the seventh commandment.

Few of them should have been more familiar with the sixth....

Well, damn. I'm familiar with pasties - though haven't seen nearly enough of them in this life - but I never though about eating them. Seems the sequins would get stuck in yer teeth - but maybe that's what the tassels are for - floss.

Another way is to bake them in the oven smothered in cream. Definitely low cal. ;)

Now there's a don't: Don't come home to your bride of less than a year twirling a tassel.

Well since we are getting down & greasy and into gourmet cuisine, forget the don'ts of turning. What about cheese grits, red eye gravy, hoecake cornbread, sorghum and buttermilk for the befores? Then a main course of crackling bread, sweet taters, hog's head souse, clabber and home brew, vintage 2005 1/2. Perhaps you'd like to share your regional gourmet specialities?

You can take the boy out of the country, but not the country out of the boy etc., but no matter how great for losing weight, the above food is mostly for talking. When I left home, I learned that steak & potatoes are for eating. Belch!

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

hmm... brings to mind that old joke about the guy that came to work wearing an ear ring... his buddy asked him "how long you been wearing that?" the guy said "since my wife found it in my truck"...

mac

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George, I admit I had to look them up, but maybe you meant eighth and seventh (stealing and adultery) not seventh and sixth (adultery and murder), or do different denominations number them differently? Martin

Obviously I didn't look them up, but it's been a while since catechism.

The division and ordering of the commandments in use in the Catholic Church is that adopted by St. Augustine (Quæstiones in Exodum, q. 71). That which is commonly in vogue amongst Protestants seems to have Origen for its sponsor.

Comes from four years in South Bend, I guess.