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  1. 05-12-2014, 11:14 AM #1
    Wade Lippman
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    Can I still call myself a woodworker?

    My wife forced me to make a rustic chic bedside table for a friend.
    It is made of a crudely cut slab I bought for $5 and wood salvaged from a very old pile of debris.
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    The dark stuff in the middle is epoxy, as the slab was just about to split. In retrospect, I should have mixed some sawdust in the top layer.
    My wife is thrilled by it (and perhaps that is all that matters), but it looks like bonfire wood to me.
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  3. 05-12-2014, 12:14 PM #2
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    Hey! Live edge is live edge!
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  4. 05-12-2014, 1:05 PM #3
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    I don't know if your being a little tongue in cheek or not so I think I should keep my opinion to my self.
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    Wade,
    You are no longer a woodworker. You are now an artiest. All you projects are now worth 10 times what they were yesterday.
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  7. 05-12-2014, 1:53 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by Larry Browning View Post
    Wade,
    You are no longer a woodworker. You are now an artiest. All you projects are now worth 10 times what they were yesterday.
    Cool! I'm glad I asked.
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    Looks great to me!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wade Lippman View Post
    My wife is thrilled by it (and perhaps that is all that matters), but it looks like bonfire wood to me.
    It is simply mind over matter.

    She don't mind. You don't matter.
    When I started woodworking, I didn't know squat. I have progressed in 30 years - now I do know squat.
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  10. 05-20-2014, 9:22 PM #9
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    That's about 850 in Chagrin Falls. Nice job.
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  11. 07-07-2014, 8:51 PM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by Larry Browning View Post
    Wade,
    You are no longer a woodworker. You are now an artiest. All you projects are now worth 10 times what they were yesterday.
    This! Indeed.
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  12. 07-07-2014, 9:04 PM #11
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    What is the slab, looks like it came from a very big tree. But then around here, 2 foot across is big...
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