What do you call your woodworking habit?

[AlexS]

The other day I was buying some rubber mats for the workshop. a lady there asked me what they were for, and than asked what I did in my workshop. I told her I made sawdust, and she replied that she was a mahogany toothpick maker too.
That got me thinking, what other euphemisms do we woodworkers use to describe our habit (addiction)?

[DaveInOz]

I'm a sawdust maker.

I've also explained that I only do it so I will have an excuse to have a shed, so I will have somewhere to put my beer fridge.

[silentC]

I don't really have a name for it, that would imply there is some consistency in what I do. My wife tells people "he's got his woodwork". I just call it "mucking about in the shed".

[Termite]

What do you call your woodworking habit?
Disgusting (see above avatar)

[Daddles]

I keep telling people I'm building an epoxy boat held together with bits of wood.

[Driver]

My wife tells people "he's got his woodwork".

My wife says: "he does woodwork". This in a slightly condescending tone, implying that it keeps me happy: poor, simple-minded, harmless fool that I am. On the other hand, she quite likes the results of my mucking about in the shed.

[silentC]

When we're talking to other golfers who don't know me, the inevitable question is "do you play golf?", to which I usually reply "no, it's the ruin of a good walk". They all smile and nod, glance at my wife with a pitying yet sympathetic look and attempt to change the subject. This is when she pipes up and says "he's got his woodwork".

The next question is "oh that's nice. What sort of things do you make?". The implication being that I have ever actually finished anything. "Oh, you know, this and that. So what's your handicap?"

[bitingmidge]

The next question is "oh that's nice. What sort of things do you make?". The implication being that I have ever actually finished anything.

I just muck around, and when that question inevitably arises, it always seems to be with the other (offensive!) implication...that maybe they think I HAVE actually finished something........

What would be the point in that?

P

[RETIRED]

Work!!!!

[Iain]

Devising schemes to buy something expensive that I don't really need.
As an aside when I was in the RAAF we called clerks Mahogany Bomber Pilots.

[Wongo]

Disease, illness, sickness, disorder, virus.

I like buying tools, collecting timber, reading woodworking tools catadogs, going to tool shops.

I am currently working on a big wish list and will order them from Lee Valley before Christmas.

I better stop here.

NURSE

[craigb]

Expensive!

[scooter]

A general concept of producing a workpiece occassionally to justify the money spent on tools.

You don't actually have to make anything, but MUST have the tools and jigs needed, just in case...


Sean

[journeyman Mick]

What said!

Mick

[Sir Stinkalot]

Making art for the enjoyment of generations to come.

mmmm now I come to think of it it may be a little full of myself