Does anyone else do this?????????? - Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Message Board

Band Saw Box · 10-15-2009, 08:06 PM

Hello my follow scrollers
I'm sure I'm not the only one who does this. Your watching a movie or TV program and you see some great finish trim in a house or maybe a piece of furinture or a clock or some other piece of woodwork and say how great it is to yourself or your spouse or maybe right out loud. Or think I could make something like that. I've dont this a few time...........ok a lot of times and I've even missed what was going on because I was checking out other things like a great wall clock. Evelyn thinks I'm a little nuts when I do it, but she has done it a time or two. So I'm I the only one or not..

wood-n-things · 10-15-2009, 09:19 PM

Nope yer not the only one..Now my wife even says...Hey look at that molding..LOL

texaswoodworker · 10-15-2009, 09:27 PM

I do the same thing.

jim_mex · 10-15-2009, 09:32 PM

Yep - i do the same.
But the real secret is to train yourself to not say out loud in front of your wife 'hey, I could make that' so as to avoid the stock answer 'What about all the other things you've started and not finished!"

Wood Dog · 10-15-2009, 10:30 PM

Yup me too, and now I'm even eyeballing garbage cans on pick up day for wood as I drive by. So sad.............

mrsaw · 10-15-2009, 10:31 PM

i always do that,sometimes i back it up for a better look.tom

Jediscroller · 10-15-2009, 10:43 PM

Heck, I go to historic re-enactments and museums to look for pieces of historic furniture to duplicate.

jim_mex · 10-15-2009, 11:05 PM

Hey Kevin - my younger son in the UK is into historic-re-enactments but I wouldn't let him near historic furniture. With his 6ft long Scottish broadsword he'd just hack the stuff into matchsticks!

scrolling_grandma · 10-16-2009, 12:25 AM

Ok so this is contagious. I have been grieving a bit as my van decided to stop working and now I am driving a little car to work. Well let me tell you, the little car does not compair with a van, when I try to raid the garbage for wood. Imagine my grief when I found the perfect piece of wood for that special project and it would not fit in the car....

I do however have a roof rack and I now have a supply of bungy cords and rope in the car. I wonder what the boss will think when I drive into my office job with a load of found wood tied to the top of the car????

And yes, I love to look at the wooden artifacts when watching TV.

dabroekh · 10-16-2009, 12:59 AM

Nope never happens to me. Did you see the set of pens on that buck in Aarons avatar or do I mean antlers what ever they are would look nice on a lathe or a scrolled mount of some sort. But nope I never do that.

10-15-2009, 08:06 PM	#1
Band Saw Box World's Greatest Scroller Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Hampton, VA Posts: 1,046	Does anyone else do this?????????? Hello my follow scrollers I'm sure I'm not the only one who does this. Your watching a movie or TV program and you see some great finish trim in a house or maybe a piece of furinture or a clock or some other piece of woodwork and say how great it is to yourself or your spouse or maybe right out loud. Or think I could make something like that. I've dont this a few time...........ok a lot of times and I've even missed what was going on because I was checking out other things like a great wall clock. Evelyn thinks I'm a little nuts when I do it, but she has done it a time or two. So I'm I the only one or not.. __________________ : Dan US Navy PR1 (Ret) To all who serve or have served, Thank you Well I am the worlds greatest scroller at my house.

10-15-2009, 09:19 PM	#2
wood-n-things Behave Yourself..I can't. Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Right here ---silly Posts: 6,006 Blog Entries: 1	Nope yer not the only one..Now my wife even says...Hey look at that molding..LOL __________________ The Mike One of them anyway. I don't make mistakes..I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong. Mike's Wood-n-Things

10-15-2009, 09:27 PM	#3
texaswoodworker Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Reno Texas Posts: 278	I do the same thing. __________________ Aaron

10-15-2009, 09:32 PM	#4
jim_mex 'Senior' member - no way! Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Pachuca, Mexico Posts: 2,384	Yep - i do the same. But the real secret is to train yourself to not say out loud in front of your wife 'hey, I could make that' so as to avoid the stock answer 'What about all the other things you've started and not finished!" __________________ Jim in Mexico “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” -Albert Einstein

10-15-2009, 10:30 PM	#5
Wood Dog Senior member--Absolutely Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: MA USA Posts: 3,926	Yup me too, and now I'm even eyeballing garbage cans on pick up day for wood as I drive by. So sad............. __________________ WD

10-15-2009, 10:31 PM	#6
mrsaw Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 326	i always do that,sometimes i back it up for a better look.tom

10-15-2009, 10:43 PM	#7
Jediscroller American Crafstman Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Galaxy far, far away Posts: 3,163 Blog Entries: 6	Heck, I go to historic re-enactments and museums to look for pieces of historic furniture to duplicate. __________________ Kevin Scrollsaw Patterns Online Making holes in wood with an EX-30, Craftsman 16" VS, Dremel 1680 and 1671

10-15-2009, 11:05 PM	#8
jim_mex 'Senior' member - no way! Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Pachuca, Mexico Posts: 2,384	Hey Kevin - my younger son in the UK is into historic-re-enactments but I wouldn't let him near historic furniture. With his 6ft long Scottish broadsword he'd just hack the stuff into matchsticks! __________________ Jim in Mexico “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” -Albert Einstein

10-16-2009, 12:25 AM	#9
scrolling_grandma Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Northeast Ohio Posts: 740	Ok so this is contagious. I have been grieving a bit as my van decided to stop working and now I am driving a little car to work. Well let me tell you, the little car does not compair with a van, when I try to raid the garbage for wood. Imagine my grief when I found the perfect piece of wood for that special project and it would not fit in the car.... I do however have a roof rack and I now have a supply of bungy cords and rope in the car. I wonder what the boss will think when I drive into my office job with a load of found wood tied to the top of the car???? And yes, I love to look at the wooden artifacts when watching TV. __________________ Tammy Pressure makes diamonds Last edited by scrolling_grandma; 10-16-2009 at 12:27 AM. Reason: spelling error

10-16-2009, 12:59 AM	#10
dabroekh Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: McCordsville, Indiana Posts: 112	Nope never happens to me. Did you see the set of pens on that buck in Aarons avatar or do I mean antlers what ever they are would look nice on a lathe or a scrolled mount of some sort. But nope I never do that. __________________ grampa sawdust AKA Dan

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