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  1. 03-10-2007, 6:05 PM #1
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    Who abandoned their flatwork all-together after buying a lathe??

    Just a show of hands, and maybe a little story about your life as a woodworker after buying a lathe...
    Are the other machines collecting rust?

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  3. 03-10-2007, 6:45 PM #2
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    Guilty......
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    Guilty..........

    Status of bookmatched Walnut coffee table started 3 years ago.....................

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    I have an excuse however....I keep telling my wife the inmates here said they would BOMB me unless I started turning.....I tell her it's in the interest of personal security!
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  6. 03-10-2007, 7:55 PM #5
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    abandoned flatwork tools

    still got every last opne of them. Have incorporated most of them into turning. Ex. tablesaw, planer, drill press, clamps,all 65 of them, glue, sandpaper, chopsaw,handsaws, drum sander, dust collector, you name it. Selling one is like losing an old friend. Call me sentimental, I dont care. Max disguised as dustpan.
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  7. 03-10-2007, 8:22 PM #6
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    Guilty. Table Saw is used as a table to seal turning blanks...Jointer is a coffee cup and thermometer holder. Haven't bothered to get the RAS or the Miter Saw out of storage...Scroll saw and the router table are collecting dust on the floor next to the bandsaw. My shop has been swallowed up in the vortex.
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  8. 03-10-2007, 8:28 PM #7
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    Hubby won't let our other tools sit idle, especially with brand new jointer, planer, and edge sander. He does the flatwork; I do the turning. We are sharing space now, but look out--the addition to the shop goes on this summer (I hope), and it will house the abyss stuff.

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  9. 03-10-2007, 8:32 PM #8
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    Ohh...Ohh...

    The abyss AND a shop addition!

    Excuse me, I have to go get a towel to mop up the drool.
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  10. 03-10-2007, 8:35 PM #9
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    I went the other way. After spending months and months playing with my Jet mini, I pretty much abandoned it. It sits in the back of the shop, taking up room, but hasn't been turned on in about six months. After a bunch of bowls, and a few dozen pens, wine stoppers, etc., I just lost interest in the lathe. Maybe some day...
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  11. 03-10-2007, 8:48 PM #10
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    Jim...you strike me as a precision-oriented fellow. I'm bettin' that's why you escaped the vortex. I wonder if you had done segmented turning, it might have been different.
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  12. 03-10-2007, 9:10 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by Carol Reed
    Ohh...Ohh...

    The abyss AND a shop addition!

    Excuse me, I have to go get a towel to mop up the drool.
    Carol, the main wood shop is about 25x35, the finishing room is 12x16, and the new addition will be another 12x16. Then we have a separate building, 12x20, for the lasers and attendant accessories.

    We pass out towels to visitors before we let them into the shop--we don't want the machines rusting.

    Wanna come visit?

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  13. 03-10-2007, 9:17 PM #12
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    What is this "flatwork" that you speak of?
    Lets see, table saw= workbench/ tool storage, router table= lathe stand for mini, jointer= storage, clamps and most other tools= dust holders.
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  14. 03-10-2007, 9:21 PM #13
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    Guilty. I can't even seem to complete a workbench I started almost a year ago.
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    Another guilty. I got interested in woodworking about 8 years ago and started slowly acquiring the equipment. After lots of research and many hours in front of The New Yankee Workshop, I prioritized the equpment list and started with a tablesaw and dust collector. Knowing a lathe was a completely different animal, it was last on the list. I finally added it to my shop two 2 years ago, and I can honestly say I wish I had bought it first. Next on the list...bandsaw upgrade!
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  16. 03-10-2007, 10:20 PM #15
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    Almost 5 years ago I built a cabinet for my shop to help hide some of the clutter. I cut all the drawer sides and plywood bottoms. Those pieces are still sitting on the tablesaw waiting to be made into drawers to finish the cabinet and the shop is still cluttered.
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