Woodworkers' Domestic Partners

[CajunRider]

Lucky you. Hang on to her. You'll be sorry if you don't.

[Sawduster]

Man, I got shivers just lookin at that picture. Brrr! A cool picture in more ways than one.

One of my other hobbies was photography back several years ago before the digital revolution. Wish they made affordable digital backs for the old SLRs since cameras are like lathes. Getting the camera body is just the beginning of the slope since there are just so many add-on toys you "need".

Very cool also that she is into the shop stuff. My LOML mostly only comes out to the shop to check if I'm alive when something crashes down making a bunch of noise. Although, while I was assembling the baby bed last night, one of the parts crashed down and when she got there to check on me offered to give me a hand with the popping the stuff together. I figured out that ain't gonna be a one man job when I deliver it.

[arcticfox46]

Diane will come and close the shop door.

She is watching TV, I will have the DC turned on, and maybe the jointer, then the compressor kicks in. Oh well I guess that means she cannot hear the TV.

Nah - she looks through the woodworking magazines and likes some of the stuff she sees. She tells me I can make that for her.

She has a collection of pictures of Stuff I made and shows it to every one - EVERY one.

I love to hear her braggin on me.

Life is good!

I should treat her better than I do. She deserves more than me.

[Sonny Edmonds]

Betty guards me when I'm in the shop.
If she see's somebody coming, she'll stop them until I stop what I'm doing.
She learned the hard way not to disturb my concentration real early on. She came out into the shop when I was tuning in the old Craftsman 100. She started talking to me, so I shut off the saw and as it was spinning down a small cut-off was slowly vibrating acrossed the table towards the blade.
I decided to flick it away. Well, as I did my pinkie sortta got cha-chinged by the blade as it was stopping.
To this day all she saw was that small piece of white wood flip away and blood spatter. She thought I'd cut off my finger! (Well, I came damn close)
She became to be a real "guard dog" over me in the shop. She'd make folks wait while she came out and stood until I noticed her there.
If you want to see me, and I'm in my shop, you've got to go through her to get there. ;)

:D

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Saugus, CA
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[DougB]

Sounds like she is a keeper Tim!

Although I'm not sure I'd want to be summoned into the bathroom by someone who was sitting on the throne perusing the Grizzly catalog - not without a respirator anyway ;)

[ww_wanna_be]

Tim, you are one lucky man. As other have said, she's a keeper!!

Photography can be a great hobby, but the competition for sales is usually pretty tough, unless you stay local, and she has a place to show them off. OR create her a website and register it with ALL the major search engines.

AND she helps in the shop. LOML left my shop forever recently, when she opened the garage door while I was finishing a piece and I saw dust floating around... I closed the door so quickly I caught her finger in it and almost amputated it. 45 stitches later, a trauma surgeon saved the finger, but now she brings me coffee, calls me for dinner or leaves me alone :0

[Cody Colston]

It doesn't sound like you will be getting any grief over tool purchases. You lucky dog! :)

BTW, what's all that white chit in the pic???

Cody
Tyler, TX

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[Postman]

Yep, you sure have a keeper. When she is home my wife guards the shop like Sonny's wife. The other day I was doing something in the shop. I had the overhead air filter on and was wearing my hearing protectors. Next thing I knew my dad was standing behind me. Scared the crap out of me. Made my jump. Good thing I wasn't doing anything hazardous yet. I don't need any more cut fangers.

[deepsplinter]

Yep, ya got a keeper there Tim. It sounds like we all do.

My wife, kids, SILs, and even my grandkids know that if they want me when I have tools running and headphones on, they need to turn the lights off and back on. I've told them all just how dangerous it is to come up from behind and scare the hell out of me.

[Sonny Edmonds]

Well, maybe her farts smell like roses.
'Ceptin girls don't fart, they fluff.

:D

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