View Poll Results: If your wife was a wood worker....

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  • Would you share the same workshop?

    35 58.33%
  • Would you share the same tools?

    26 43.33%
  • No - we will each have different sheds and tools

    10 16.67%
  • Should both of you dress like ozwinner in the workshop?

    3 5.00%
  • NO WAY AT ALL - If swmbo takes up wood work , I will abandon my shed to her and take up cross-stitch

    10 16.67%
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  1. #16
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    Yes I wished my love would do woodworking and i would use the same tools. Mikie

  2. #17
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    Argg! - if SWMBO got any more space in my 6 x 6 meter shed I would have to buy a new shed - she already claimed 0.5 x 2 meters of valuable floor space for her work materials and thats where I want to keep my wood!

  3. #18
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    My missus is welcome, however she probably would not sit through my tool acclimitisation class.... I caught her using the bench grinder the other day sharpening her shovel which in itself aint so bad but I got a bit worried as she was holding it down the handle rather than up near the edge being sharpened so I was worried about kick back or grab (and consequences thereto such as a wheel cracking and flying intoher torso/face...)

    she's more interested in the garden anyway....
    Zed

  4. #19
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    Hmm, we allready share tools, In fact I purchased a scroll saw for her with my tax return. Knowing my luck she will start to get interested and surpass me as easily as she did with computer graphics, Oh well If I turn out to be a woodworking dud at least I can make her a coffee and look after the kids while she builds me a desk

    EDIT: Hey look this thing on the left tells me how old I am..cool. I keep forgetting so a very handy tool indeed
    And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares. For if a man is hit with a ploughshare hes going to KNOW he's been hit.

  5. #20
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    Quote Originally Posted by electricmonk
    Knowing my luck she will start to get interested and surpass me as easily as she did with computer graphics


    EDIT: Hey look this thing on the left tells me how old I am..cool. I keep forgetting so a very handy tool indeed
    LoL. I have been known to use the words "Your not alowed to be better at my hobby than I am"

    Maybe, if we ask Neil nicely, hell make it so all our important dates are listed there so we'll never forget them .

    Ben.

  6. #21
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    We already share all, we each have our own strengths and weakness in skills and tend to complement each other, although my newfound obsession with hand planes has her and the kids puzzled, bemused actually.
    I cut to size, plane to size, procrastinate, she sands, coats, we assemble, the kids hammer things, select screws handtools, use cordless tools, help sand and apply glues and are great portable clamps.
    Bruce C.
    catchy catchphrase needed here, apply in writing to the above .

  7. #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by E. maculata
    and are great portable clamps.
    LOL excellent! I will have to remember that
    Plausible deniability is the key to success

  8. #23
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    "Would you share the same workshop?" Do you guys get a choice?
    Plausible deniability is the key to success

  9. #24
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    My wife finds the shed too hot in summer and too cold in winter. She complained about dust getting into her boxes of stuff she had stored in there, so I moved it all out, reclaiming the 2 meters of wall space it took up, and moved my wood pile there. Amazing how much more room that made in my shed!
    Last edited by Turbulance; 8th August 2004 at 04:00 AM. Reason: spelling

  10. #25
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    One of those home/lifestyle shows (channel 7??) is running a competition for women woodworkers and the prize is $5k from Carbatec and $5k hire from Kennards for a year. So getting SWMBO involved in making sawdust could fund that new tablesaw & bandsaw & 8" jointer ...
    If I do not clearly express what I mean, it is either for the reason that having no conversational powers, I cannot express what I mean, or that having no meaning, I do not mean what I fail to express. Which, to the best of my belief, is not the case.
    Mr. Grewgious, The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens

  11. #26
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    I'd have no problem sharing with the one WMBO in fact she often lends a hand (providing there's a spare pair o' gloves around) with dimensioning timber especially when theres a fair lot to do.

    I dont mind as it gives her a chance to see what I have bought that she has'nt noticed before and me a chance to say I need to do this and that and I need that to do it.
    I reckon if'n they dont have some understandin' o' your shed then they're less likely to let loose the Visa but I can feel the bit twixt me teef :eek: an the reins a pullin in....gasppp cant last out much longer if'n only I can make it to at least one more wood show.

    Cheers
    Johnno

    Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have film.

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