Honey-do project

Neat item...

You gotta be careful with that honey do list. If you do it too fast or too good, you only encourage the list to get longer

Karl

Nice job - she must be proud of you - and secretly proud of herself for being able to easily "con" you into these jobs.... :-) Ken.

This is a slippery slope, indeed! I hope you got Lasagna for dinner, at least.

Ron Thompson On the Beautiful Florida Space Coast, right beside the Kennedy Space Center, USA

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

--Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

Nice clamp! Thinking "Out-of-the-box". What would you change on V.2?

(...or am I still plonked for Gunner's puppy thing?)

On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 00:48:55 -0500, Don Foreman vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!: remove ns from my header address to reply via email

Pisspoor! Call her bluff! You gotta be standing there with the hammer and the nail! Make a mark in the wood.

Oh! Forgot. This is a metalwaork ng. You _wanted_ to do that web shot didn't you?

Sometimes in a workplace you find snot on the wall of the toilet cubicles. You feel "What sort of twisted child would do this?"....the internet seems full of them. It's very sad

On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 00:48:55 -0500, Don Foreman vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!: remove ns from my header address to reply via email

"I got one done today"

rephrase

"I got done today"

I am not going into rephrasing the tomorrow and mate bits. We all live in hope.

Seriously, I feel the same. My wife never tells (or even asks) me to do stuff. But even after I have done exactly what I wanted, I am always left with the feeling that it's hers, both to own and to claim credit for. Somewhere in there was the germ of an idea.

Funny. I (sort of) remember a joke (and these jokes you remember do have a basis, always).

Men make the big decisions, and women control our lives. (???)

I GOT IT! IT'S REVENGE! All these millenia, we plant the seed and they have to raise the baby. So in the rest of life it's the opposite.

Women's Lib was NUTTN compared to Women's Revenge.

Sometimes in a workplace you find snot on the wall of the toilet cubicles. You feel "What sort of twisted child would do this?"....the internet seems full of them. It's very sad

Very nice -- can't find that one at Homeowner's Hell.

Actually, I enjoy those Honeydew projects. And I've got two Honey's drawing on me. My wife, of course, but also the nice lady (very close friends) who gave me my Clausing lathe. I'm happy to say that neither abuse the privelige -- although I know that I'll be paying for that lathe until I'm in the grave. For you younger guys, here's a tip. We made a prenuptial agreement (that was 49 years ago, when written contracts for such weren't needed and one's word was enough). I agreed to tackle any and all projects within my skills providing that the necessary tooling would be amortized over that one job. Most of the time, I just went out and bought the tool I needed -- and when asked what the project cost, the tool price was included. Earlier, when money was tighter, we'd discuss the project and what it would cost -- including the tools. And if we couldn't afford it, we'd either skip that project or hire someone to do it. It's a good agreement -- but there's a catch. I had to agree to limit the size of the shop.

Boris

Yep, it's like women and suitcases. Give 'em a small one and it'll fill up... give 'em a bigger one and it'll fill up. Doesn't matter how short the trip.

Regards, Jim Brown

Nice! Are you going to Nickle plate them? If you prefer the brass look, consider a treatment with Dow-Corning Z-6020. You dilute the stuff with with alcohol amd paint it on. Let it dry then bake it at about 250F for ~20 minutes. It leaves a very thin oxidation resistant finish that even a drill seargant couldn't peel off. When I was in grad school we did a buddie's Mother's copper kettle. Several weeks later she accidently let the kettle boil dry and melt the solder. Still didn't hurt the finish.

Ted

Or me & shop space.

Plonk expired, Tom. Pup's probably big enough to bite back now. Gunner probably even gave it a holster and sidearm for trips thru Ohio... :

That sounds like stuff I *need* in my collection of stuff. Any known sources, Ted?

I like the look of polished brass for this project; goes with wood better than nickel.

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You bet! She doesn't bluff, and her hand fits a hammer just fine. Imagine a couple of 8-penny cement-coated nails driven most of the way into walnut, followed by "could you move that nail over an inch or two?"

All she has to do is hint that she'd like something from my shop and it's a done deal. She asks little and gives much. We haven't had a car in the garage in 10 years, even during MN winters. There's no room: it's full of my tools and junk -- uh, good stuff. She's never complained once, even when she had to scrape ice off her windshield in the morning to go to work before she retired.

There are few things I enjoy more than making something for someone that genuinely appreciates it, especially if I happen to like her!

I read some of the replies to your post and wonder if some of these guys are still married to their first wife.

Ted

Three weeks ago SWMBO fell (don't ask) and broke her right arm up at the shoulder joint - no cast, just a "collar and cuff" sling. I am developing all kinds of talents I never would have dreamed of fifty years ago - things like installing feminine garments etc. She broke her arm six weeks to the day after I broke my left wrist, lots of fun! Gerry :-)} London, Canada

And you weren't one of the guys who seemed to think it was a shame to do something for her. (45 years and counting.)

Ted