This is getting bad

And your point with all this normalcy is????

As a new turner, I want to thank you for your website. It has provided me with a lot of answers to really basic questions.

For me, the slope took the form of my wife telling me where the fallen trees were. That lasted until I got two good-sized outdoor racks built and crammed full and one end of the basement lined with shelves FULL of drying wood. Now she wants to take the car more often ... but I've got a secret ... -I- know where there are some gaps in the racks just waiting for some choice turning stock. And those bowls she has been oooohing and ahhhing about? They left gaps in the basement shelves. ;-)

Bill

Boy do I understand the sentiment! My pile is just starting to grow and yet my lathe is still unactive and the tools still in the mail. I came home the other day and while unlocking the door heard a distant chainsaw. I'll be right back, told the kids, and ran out after the sweet sound. I found an enormous aspen tree being sliced up and commissioned a few samples. Now, if I could just get my hands on some olive tree....

If just about everything you see gets you thinking "If that were rotated - around that axis . . .",

If you've looked at an Escoulen eccentric piece and have figured out how it was done . . . ,

If you can't prune a rosebush, or any woody plant without trying to turn "the big stuff" . . . ,

If, next to the parking lot of your dentist, you check out the big lumpy tree that has to have a really interesting burl - and once again remind your dentist "If you ever decide to take down that tree out there . . ." ,

If you have two or more blue tarps covering stacks of logettes - ends sealed with different color paints and a large old kettle with 10 pounds of melted and then cooled wax in it . . . ,

If you find you have five or six large black garbage bags filled with shavings and chips that you can't figure out what to do with . . . ,

And if a stacked blonde wearing a turned wooden bracelet walks by - and you only notice the bracelet . . . ,

THEN

You're well down the slope to becoming a Turniste!

charlie b If you turn wearing a T-shirt and often find chips and shavings in your shorts . . . ,

If you turn "green", even if water squirts out of it as you apply the gouge or chisel edge to it . . . ,

Yeah, those crepe myrtles in the back yard are starting to get nervous.