"Woodworking Women"

[B a r r y B u r k e J r .]

I thought it was Microsoft Certified Professional.

Barry

[Leslie G]

Cool your jets. The "tongue-in-cheek" anger was guided toward those who "don't think women do anything but crafty type stuff" as mentioned in Blues response after yours. It is not toward anyone posting here.

OK Dave in Fairfax?

Leslie

[Unisaw A100]

PURPLE?

UA100

[Scott Lurndal]

Master Control Program (remember Tron?)

Also the name of the operating system on Burroughs (now Unisys) mainframes.

scott

[Charlie Self]

UnisawA100 responds:

Right on the money!

Charlie Self "Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring." S. J. Perelman

[dave]

Thank you, working with women makes me a bit twitchy on overstepping boundaries. Dave

[Blue]

Hey, Leslie...I'm a girl. :o) Ya know after thinking about it for a while, maybe that's a good way to get more women started down the path to woodworking. That's sort of how I started out...scroll work, bird houses and crafty stuff. Then I found a guy woodworker with a full shop who wanted to teach me and after making a beautiful little walnut Queen Ann style footstool, I was hooked. It's been full steam ahead ever since. The neat thing is I learn something new every time I walk into my shop, pick up a book or magazine or log into one of the forums.

[Michael Baglio]

Damn straight, Charlie. The rest of the jamokes 'roun' here can rave all they want about Robin on "Hometime", but those who know, know.

Beth rules. Period.

Michael (Robin who?)

[markm]

My girlfriend is really getting into this wood crap. She loves going wood shoping with me, fills my dolly with wood that "speakes to her", and builds some nice furniture. However, what it says to me is "how in the hell you going to get this to stand still?".

mark

[Lazarus Long]

I'd look at the site, but this link isn't working.

[Lazarus Long]

Geeze, it was a woman at the woodworking shows doing a minilathe demo (using cocobolo) that caused me to buy one and give turning a whack. It will be a *long* time before my skill is up to hers (if ever)

Women can definitely "do it"

[lucky1]

I have no doubt most women in ww are better than me. which ain't sayin much. I just know I don't want my wife gettin into it. even though I would consider myself more artistic than her she whips me in any eye/hand coordination type stuff and I don't want this in my shop. that's my domain, that's all I gots, left.

"Woodworking

[Scott Altman]

An MCP here - one of the best cabinet designers & builders in these parts "Kansas" is a lady friend of mine. Works out of a shop that makes mine look like a relic of the past. She started finishing cabinets to make money for college.....Buisness Degree......makes more doing cabinets than what she would have done otherwise. She is married, 3 kids and still finds time to cook like a pro. Never underestimate the other gender, my hat is off to many !

[Wilson]

My daughter is in her 2nd semester of Woodshop in high school. The stories she tells me about some of the boys in her class. Morons. I'm in my 4th semester at the local community college and I see the first time males in the beginning class, who are older than me, having major problems measuring and cutting! I'm no pro, but at my entry level 1 1/2 yrs ago, I still knew what a drill and sander did.

[charlie b]

That's what I get for guessing rather than looking up the url It's

And if you haven't been to the site before - BOOKMARK IT! cause you'll want to refer back to it for all kinds of stuff.

charlie b

[Scott Altman]

Well good for your daughter ! she'll weed out the morons that don't count. Male ego can be positive & negative at times towards a lady trying something new or breaking away old mindset boundaries. Most womn i know that do WW-ing are much better at detail work than most guys. Maybe the upper body strength is not there but they can over come that with wisdom and given a chance.

[Larry Jaques]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 04:31:09 GMT, "Blue" brought forth from the murky depths:

That's impossible. Boys are blue, girls are pink. (Y'know, like dogs are all male while cats are all female.)

^^^^^ Wow, most of us are either Neanders or Normites. You're a Stanley? Congrats on finding a shop and using it. Mo power to ya.

And that never stops. I love it.

[Larry Jaques]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 14:30:45 GMT, Lazarus Long brought forth from the murky depths:

Try

[Larry Jaques]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 06:07:09 GMT, Michael Baglio brought forth from the murky depths:

Check out Gail and that clock face project. Va Va VOOM!

Robin's butt. Yum! (Both Robin Kipp's and Robin Hartl's)

[Russell]

well have a look here then there are a lot of competent female furniture makers and in europe a lot of excelent site carpenters...I worked with a couple over ten years ago