What mess??? :cool:
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What mess??? :cool:
Typical rantings of a devious attorney type, trying to lull us into a guilt trip because of our own inability to see the floor around our lathes!!;)
John, I'm not so sure of the direction of your message. I did make the humble attempt yesterday to sweep up shavings & empty the overflowing garbage can in my shop. I'm not sure how many more bags of chips/dust there is to sweep up. Temperature in my shop was sitting over the 100 F mark, so I let that excuse prevent me from doing anymore cleaning. Now after seeing that fine example in the picture, I'm ashamed to walk back out to my shop & see what is waiting on me. I think any pictures I do take, must be a finished product only. No shop pictures after that fine example above. :)
"...get back to turning so you can show us a real mess..."
I suspect that he got these shavings from Mike Smith. Ordered a fifty pound sack of 'em just so's he could scatter 'em around and make it look like his shop was a "mess".
John,
Sorry, "confessions" just don't cut it around here.
How do we know the shavings weren't just cloned in Photoshop from a photo of a "real" shop?
We need notarized affidavits, in triplicate.
Only then can we begin interviewing character witnesses and scheduling the unscheduled inspections.
OK, I guess I missed the picture showing the "mess". I do see the picture that looks similar to AFTER I clean up my mess, though! :)
*that does NOT look like box elder on the lathe! :)
If you think that is a mess, Mr. Keeton, than you obviously haven't seen my shop.
Mess??? What mess? You can claim a mess after you have a shaving avalanche, and it takes search and rescue 3 hours to dig you out! :eek::D That's how the wife describes my shop.
John, I too feel your pain but sometimes I just get carried away...................
John, It is all in the perception. You call your shop dirty and I call it clean. I call my shop dirty and you have really scary nightmares. I will take a picture of my lathe area tomorrow and post. Young turners should be banned from viewing it.
Heck thats not so bad. You can still see most of the floor. I tend to let mine go until the pile gets so deep I can't kick it out of the way.
That's no mess. It'd only take a couple minutes to clean up.
Heck last time I "cleaned up" it was only because I couldn't find the tailstock center when I dropped it....
Now, boys and girls, let's get a grip on reality here. This exposition from Mr. K seems like a practice run for when he commits an indescretion sometime in the future after he gets elected to Congress.
I'm sure he chose a dark colored wood to litter the floor with, lest we couldn't see anything in the picture.
I am also accused of having a 'clean' shop by erstwhile friends. I just point to a bucket of shavings I keep for such occasions and invite them to scatter them around so they can feel more at home ;-)
I think I smell an attorney.....hmmmm I do, I do....lol
The only time shaving are a problem is that when you drop something and you cant find it for the shavings... See I had a box of 10 square blades for my easy rougher, well that to me is worth about 150.00 bucks and I couldnt find them. Well I ran my fingers thru the shavings, oh it felt so good, and still coulnt find those blades. Well finally when I cleaned my shavings right there on the bench was my box of easy rougher replacement blades...
Disgusting, Just Disgusting John shame on you. But we all forgive you for your moment of weakness. Wait a minute 3 days thats not a moment .