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Grunt
27th November 2003, 04:12 PM
If you have a Lie of Lawyers and a Clot of Doctors, anyone have any idea what the collective noun of woodworkers is?

ozwinner
27th November 2003, 04:32 PM
A dustup

JackoH
27th November 2003, 04:33 PM
Chips off the Old Block?:p

silentC
27th November 2003, 04:39 PM
A knot of woodworkers

ozwinner
27th November 2003, 04:53 PM
How about, a laminate

Eastie
27th November 2003, 04:57 PM
A pallet ?

vcohen
27th November 2003, 05:24 PM
A grain of woodworkers

Cliff Rogers
27th November 2003, 05:42 PM
G'day.

Given that they are usually noisy buggers, how about one of this lot?

Din
Racket
Disturbance
Commotion
Fracas
Disquiet
Pandemonium
Babel
Cacophony

macca2
27th November 2003, 08:30 PM
Would they be a splinter group

multinut
27th November 2003, 08:52 PM
a carcase

DaveInOz
28th November 2003, 10:09 AM
a beard of woodworkers
a flannel factory of woodworkers
:)

Grunt
28th November 2003, 10:48 AM
I was thinking about a Joint of Wordworkers.

That is like a Mortice and Tenon Joint, not one of those funny cigarettes.

Caliban
30th November 2003, 04:58 PM
judging by some of the replies above I'd have to suggest
A
Thicket.
sorry, just kidding
your ideas were funny
really
guys?
why won't anyone talk to me anymore?
cheers
Jim

Zed
1st December 2003, 02:34 PM
a "stand" of woodworkers ?

ubeaut
2nd December 2003, 05:45 PM
a board of woodworkers

a bench of woodworkers

a vice of woodworkers

a panel of woodworkers

To go with Cliff's line of thinking:

a Rowdy of woodworkers

________________________

Zed - Get over it Doorstop is no more, and will never return.

Baz
2nd December 2003, 08:16 PM
A burl of woodies.

multinut
2nd December 2003, 08:23 PM
maybe its just called a stump of woodies
because it has me stumped :D

soundman
2nd December 2003, 11:01 PM
A rub of french polishers.

vcohen
3rd December 2003, 08:50 AM
A dovetail of woodworkers


(I think we are scraping the bottom of the barrel now!!!!:rolleyes:

Cheers

JohnM
3rd December 2003, 10:19 PM
Maybe we could have a splinter group!:rolleyes:

Iain
4th December 2003, 07:21 AM
Turnout of turners.
Cutting of sawyers.
Justification of jointers.
Pod of polishers.
Folly of tritoneers.
Knot wood related but a group of prostitutes is a pride of loins;)

vcohen
4th December 2003, 09:22 AM
Scrub out 'Folly of Tritoneers'

Make that


A Troop of Tritoneers or
A Tradition of Tritoneers
An Excellence of Tritoneers
A Paradox of Tritoneers
An Acme of Tritoneers
A ................ I dunno, I'm lost for words.



Folly indeed...................@$%&*@


A very wounded:( and shocked:eek:

arose62
4th December 2003, 09:42 AM
Surely an "orange" of Tritoneers ??

ozwinner
4th December 2003, 05:27 PM
Tonnes of
Tritoneers
Toiling and
Tinkering
Together
Tirelessly over
Tools of orange don’t
Tolerate
Torpid people.

Cheers, Allan
:rolleyes:

Grunt
4th December 2003, 08:11 PM
At the risk of getting flamed:

An inaccuracy of tritoneers


A proud Triton owner;)

Ratmick
2nd January 2004, 11:18 PM
...a dusting of woodworkers?

Of course, this could be a saw point.

Mick