You know you're a woodturner...

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Hope this isn't a dead horse, but we had a tree blow down Friday on the building where I work. No damage, just a big tree in the parking lot across the door of the other office. After checking for bodies, etc. I looked at the tree, and started thinking "I wonder if there's any good figure in there...and how do I get my hands on it if there is?" Then I started laughing at myself!

So...

You know you're a woodturner when...

Any takers?
 
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I look at the floor of old houses; At limbs and joints; I look a the throw-aways in lumber stores. Like Dario did last week (or so) I have found great grained wood in cheap stores in dowels, wooded kitchen ware (cheap). I have an old chair in which all of the grain is just plain but one arm had tiger striped grain.

Knots, stripes, contrasts, irregular grain, unusual patterns and colors - it is instinctive for me. :D

Posted somewhere over a year ago - sawdust cologne:

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You walk into a BBQ joint and they have a stack of firewood by the front door and you start examining the wood for pieces you might want to liberate.

Heh, I just did that tonight![:eek:)]

GK
 
You go online to visit woodworking/turning forums.
Your main reading are turning books, magazines and catalogs.
Checking wood and trees as you drive by.
Your imagination is consumed by turning.

Note, that all these attention used to be focused towards the opposite sex instead. Wait a minute, are these signs of a woodturner or just getting old? :D;)
 
You know you're a woodturner when your spouse starts scanning the side of the road for trees and she's able to spot a burl at 55mph.:D
 
You can remember that burl on the tree in Alaska and where it is two years after you visited. You remember other burls still on the trees and where they are in a half a dozen states. You dream of retiring so that you can go after them!
 
You spend two months cutting ice damaged pecan and ash trees. Then you spend another week slicing it up and sealing.
 
If I'm not driving, I'm looking into the woods on the side of the road.

There are about 400 trees lining this Blvd in my town and I'd say about 3/4 of them have huge burls around their bases. Although these trees have some historical significance, I can't help but wish I had a chainsaw. [}:)][}:)][}:)] One of these days about half a dozen of those trees are going to be gone and I just hope they don't check my basement. :D:D:D
 
Originally posted by babyblues

If I'm not driving, I'm looking into the woods on the side of the road.:D:D:D
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Even when I'm driving, I look at trees... if I see a tree down, I slow down and gawk just like other drivers do at wrecks.. I've even stopped to get closer looks at down trees.
 
If you pull up to a 7-11 store and look at the ends of the fire wood bundles the have stacked on the side walk! I also look at every pile of trimmed limbs the folks put out on trash day.
 
Actually, a friend of mine is worse than I am. I told her one time that I was going to be doing a tree survey(I work part-time for a landscape architect) and she wanted to know what that was. Did it mean that I was going around to different neighborhoods and marking the location of good trees on a map, so I would know where to look first, after a bad storm? I told her, that's a great idea, but no, I haven't started doing that ....yet.:D
 
You know you're a woodturner...

When you ask yourself how many pens you could get out of the drawer front or cabnet door that has some really nice figured maple. I mean it is really, really nice.

My wife wouldn't miss that drawer. Would she?[:0][:p]
 
Originally posted by flcad2000

Actually, a friend of mine is worse than I am. I told her one time that I was going to be doing a tree survey(I work part-time for a landscape architect) and she wanted to know what that was. Did it mean that I was going around to different neighborhoods and marking the location of good trees on a map, so I would know where to look first, after a bad storm? I told her, that's a great idea, but no, I haven't started doing that ....yet.:D
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Makes one understand the newest use of a GPS device. Not a bad idea at all if you think about it for a second or two. ;)
 
You call your wife from work, asking her to bring your chainsaw so you can go harvest burls off of a downed tree on your lunch hour.

Jason

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...when you nearly get arrested for chasing a landscaper and his trailer down the street to see what he's taking to the landfill... [:I]
 
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