Not a harsh word in there. Why don't you answer the question about why a 1/2" hammer drill, a glue gun, and a paint gun would good starter tools for a beginner? I'm a long way from a beginner (or just beginning - depends on who in the wreck I'm compared to) and I see little or no use for those three specific tools.
What do you propose be made here - a spray painted craft wreath with glued on fake fruit, Hilti bolted to the sidewalk?
Ok, the 1/2" hammer drill can drill plain old holes in wood too, but a standard corded or cordless 3/8" is a lot more appropriate for that.
wouldn't things like chisels, layout tools, scrapers, planes, a good paint (well, one for varnish or shellac) brush make just a wee bit more sense for a beginning woodworker?
I got most of the stuff from Dad as part of a "setting up housekeeping" type package. A drill, hammer, screwdrivers, drill bits, screwdriver bits... Pretty practical you're a man now stuff. Maybe I got some of it that first Christmas.
We got a lot of stuff like that too. I was a foreign language major in my last semester when I rather abruptly got to learn about EPT, Lamaze, and trying to support a family on a minimum wage work study job... I got some very useful towels, the last of which I just consigned to rag detail recently. Everything else was fancy Euroweird stuff. Linen napkins, fine china, exotic handmade lace thingies, crystal.
I eat with my elbows on the table, always eat with the longest fork and the biggest spoon I can find, and I still haven't figured out what I'm supposed to do with the exotic handmade lace thingies. I think the exotic china and crystal are in the cabinet over the fridge. I haven't opened it since we moved into this house six years ago.
We don't have a lot of company, and the company we do have doesn't know what to do with the exotic handmade lace thingies either.
I've found the crystal is pretty solid. It doesn't tip over easily, so they make *great* containers for holding brush dipping water for doing watercolors. Wickford? Weckford? Wedgewood? Good for cracking nuts into too.
Me too. Not *those* plates, but some other ones. The *good* stuff is buried in dust somewhere. The not-so-good stuff got me the router table I think, and a bunch of pipe clamps for sure. I built a hutch to mount onto a dresser so we could display those plates. They have since been relegated to some other forgotten corner to make way for SWMBO's Barbie collection.
All in all, we probably have four or five sets of plates, and we eat off the stuff my wife got in college.
Me too. I've also used other tactics. As a recent example, I wanted to get into hand planes. SWMBO balked at the price of all the stuff I needed to buy to get started, so I took her out to Lowe's and showed her how much it costs to buy a cheap benchtop planer and jointer. That shut her up real quick like.
I can imagine. I haven't tried anything that large-scale or purposeful, but I've played with bending popsicle sticks for some reason or other. It's a real PITA just bending one of those little things without breaking it. Wood bending people are half mad I think.
Go for it! SWMBO does the craft show thing, and she uses a lot of Chiwanese baskets. I've been thinking for years I could make something better. Maybe you can talk me out of even thinking about trying, or talk me into a new tool. Whichever. :)
Why so it was, I suppose. It was a long time ago. I know 10 years is nothing to many here, but there's a big difference between 22 and 32.
A lot has changed in 10 years. Mostly, I appreciate Renee a lot more now than I did then. I sure never planned the way any of that happened, but I can't imagine what I'd be doing with my life right now if it hadn't.
I'll be sure to tell her that come next January... January... 10th? 20th? Oh hell. LOL!
Oh, and BTW, a real gloat... SWMBO says to me "Honey, I've been thinking about buying you a scroll saw."
That wasn't on my list, or even on my mind, really. That came from left field. It probably means she wants me to make her something with it, but I'll be glad to. It's sitting in the dining room right now with a big bow on it. Delta 16" VS, probably not top of the line, but I asked about it a bit back and it seems this will be a nice little critter to have around the shop. She paid for it with her money, and she earns a lot less than I do, so that took some doing.
Yeah, I'd say that's a gloat.
(And all I got her were some stupid clothes and some stupid little pieces of rock and metal with no power cords and no moving parts... How boring!)
Having a wife who puts up with me is a gloat too. I'm not easy to live with, and we both know it. She loves me pretty much unconditionally. I'll never understand it, but it sure is nice.
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