woodshop

Turtle · 09-29-2009

guess i was a little obtuse. i'm blind in one eye, so i was poking fun at the other eye.

funny story on that too, while we watch the glue dry. i had to get a new license a few weeks back and for my need i only had to wait in line, pay money, take an eye test, and get a photo taken. so i press my wee little pin head against the bar and there are 2 columns, and 5 rows of cells and in each cell of column 1, 5 letters of size variance larger at bottom rows up. column 2 cells are all blank. anyway, the gal says "read row 2 and i read the 5 letters in row 2 column 1 but i see no letters in row 2 column 2 so i stop reading. she says "read the rest." i says "there are no rest" she says "huh!?" i says "there are no letters in the box. she says "take your head away & try again." i says "ok". i do, i look, i read 5 characteres in r2c1 and no characters in r2c2. she says "that's never happened before. is something wrong with your eye?" i says "yes; it's blind". she says "erhm..uh...oh. ok then, that's too bad, [nervous giggle]; step over there for your photo.

long story a little longer, this is the first time a machine ever was set up to discrimate like this. no one ever asked if i was blind in one eye -they only ask if i wear corrective lenses- and i never volunteered the information.

this is also a cautionary tale; i blinded my eye in an industrial woodworking accident while not wearing eye protection.

nothin' funny about that.

modest · 09-29-2009

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Originally Posted by Turtle

guess i was a little obtuse. i'm blind in one eye

That would explain the quotes. Don't I look like a jackass

In all honesty... the ceramic piece I was camouflaging was decorative and demanded something that nothing short of repainting the whole thing could deliver. I'm sure your chair's leg will fare far better.

So... uh... are you making your own wood filler or do you have some?

~modest

Turtle · 09-29-2009

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Originally Posted by modest

That would explain the quotes. Don't I look like a jackass

In all honesty... the ceramic piece I was camouflaging was decorative and demanded something that nothing short of repainting the whole thing could deliver. I'm sure your chair's leg will fare far better.

So... uh... are you making your own wood filler or do you have some?

~modest

i think i mentioned my accident here a few years ago so i figure everyone should have read it- because obviously they must have read everything i wrote

- & remembered it. don't i look like an obtuse writer with an enormous head.

a lot of what i know of ceramic repair comes from watching antiques road show. nothing i'd care to attempt other than to the level of you "won't notice it going by on a galloping horse". now that little expression came from my dad, along with other such gems as "good enough for government work" and "you can't see it from my house." again, obtuse references that i just go along presuming folks know/get.

i do learn some facts from the roadshow furniture guys in terms of history and prices of stuff, but i bust a gut when they get all hoity-toity about woodworking techniques when it's obvious they have only read the how-to & never actually did the work.

i've got a little tube of wood-filler. it's light in color, but as i plan to paint it not stain it, i'm not concerned that it doesn't match.

modest · 09-29-2009

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Originally Posted by Turtle

i think i mentioned my accident here a few years ago so i figure everyone should have read it- because obviously they must have read everything i wrote

- & remembered it. don't i look like an obtuse writer with an enormous head.

Hogwash! An obtuse writer with an enormous head would think every joke needs a subtitle. I rather enjoy the clever turns of phrase and inside jokes your posts often make... even if I rarely get them all

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Originally Posted by Turtle

a lot of what i know of ceramic repair comes from watching antiques road show. nothing i'd care to attempt other than to the level of you "won't notice it going by on a galloping horse". now that little expression came from my dad, along with other such gems as "good enough for government work" and "you can't see it from my house." again, obtuse references that i just go along presuming folks know/get.

I think you've proven that wordsmithery is genetic

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Originally Posted by Turtle

i do learn some facts from the roadshow furniture guys in terms of history and prices of stuff, but i bust a gut when they get all hoity-toity about woodworking techniques when it's obvious they have only read the how-to & never actually did the work.

i've got a little tube of wood-filler. it's light in color, but as i plan to paint it not stain it, i'm not concerned that it doesn't match.

This reminds me... I did re-stain part of a coffee table once. The results were, as i am vaguely recollecting, not too great—probably about "good enough for government work" on our new woodworking quality scale. I should probably fill in details...

My brother's puppy chewed the corner of his coffee table. It was a pottery barn table so it already had a worn look with sanded edges and whatnot. I sanded down the corner removing the teeth marks and stained it multiple times getting it successively darker until it... well, it sort of matched.

He still has the table. I guess I could get a pic next time I'm there.

any road, I think a break or crack is definitely a different ball of wax. It makes sense that paint would be the way to go if there isn't a large surface area needing redone.

~modest

Turtle · 09-29-2009

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Originally Posted by modest

...My brother's puppy chewed the corner of his coffee table. It was a pottery barn table so it already had a worn look with sanded edges and whatnot. I sanded down the corner removing the teeth marks and stained it multiple times getting it successively darker until it... well, it sort of matched.

He still has the table. I guess I could get a pic next time I'm there.

any road, I think a break or crack is definitely a different ball of wax. It makes sense that paint would be the way to go if there isn't a large surface area needing redone.

~modest

roger pics.

i'll put up more shots too of the leg repair as i move along. was just thinking one of my favorite aphorisms to give up as comentary on my work is "good enough for who it's for".

not sure where i got that one but i would even use it on customers that i thought needed a good yank on they chains.

i went & dug out that tube of filler and now honestly don't remember where or when i got it or what i used it on.

guess i was doing good just to know to look for a tube & not a can.

any route, turns out it's a water based product and not the petroleum based wood-dough i was thinking it was & most accustomed to using. it's got some elaborate destructions written on there, & the spout is clogged with dryed filler, but the bulk of it still feels workable when squeezing the tube so i'll just have to experiment. obviously i'm not afraid to make mistakes.

Turtle · 09-30-2009

the product instructs to fill "large" voids in stages so i dobbed in the first dollop after shooting this photo. more time to hurry up & wait now. notice the forensic equine evidence where the stain line went into an open crack at manufacture.

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modest · 09-30-2009

Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of... uh... chairs...

Looking good, T. I think the dark color will help with the cosmetics.

~modest

Turtle · 09-30-2009

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Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of... uh... chairs...

Looking good, T. I think the dark color will help with the cosmetics.

~modest

roger dark aid. i'd say there is as much paint as stain in the finish as it is.

giddyup!

now nay; a story of the death of some independent actions i say.

i meant to tell it earlier in response to your porch swing, but my reply there was already in exceedance of my usual post length. i intended to start with the start of the story, but reading on where i found it writ, i found a better start in the middle & one which i had never heard tolden in the stories of entrainment that i had heard tolden afore. here we go thens: >>

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...In the study of chronobiology, entrainment occurs when rhythmic physiological or behavioral events match their period to an environmental oscillation (termed a zeitgeber, which is German for "timegiver"). The activity/rest (sleep) cycle is only one set of such events that is normally entrained by environmental cues whose period is ultimately determined by the earth's rotation. The term entrainment is justified because the biological rhythms are endogenous: they persist when the organism is isolated from periodic environmental cues. Circadian oscillations occur even in isolated organs, and it is believed that a master pacemaker in the mammalian brain, the SCN (suprachiasmatic nuclei), entrains the periphery. Such hierarchical relationships are not the only ones possible: two or more oscillators may couple in order to assume the same period without either being dominant over the other(s). This situation is analogous to Huygens' pendulum clocks. ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrainment_(physics)