Oops

Never mind ... it's all here.

Where'd it go?

I'm missing about an hours worth of posts ... NOT very happy making!

Nevertheless, it's roughly 2 am and I have a FULL day ahead of my tomorrow (field service, mowing the KH lawn, meeting and Bible study with a young man in our congregation.) so I gotta bail.

See ya later.
Bill

Oct 7, 2006

Took a router class at Woodcraft today. IMHO it wasn't worth the money as it primarily consisted of the instructor showing us how to use his favorite router jigs and a brief discussion of some pages xeroxed from ShopNotes in clear violation of their copyrights.

Bought (well, ordered) the Oneway Revolving live center from http://www.hartvilletool.com/product/10785 ... which is where you are redirected to if you type in the URL "http://www.packardwoodworks.com". I think that having a bull-nose tailstock center will help me make some money with my bowls which are, to be brutally honest, "vin ordinairre' -- pretty good by junior high standards, but a long way from paying my way into MOMA.

I'm going to try to ratchet my 'artsy-fartsy' factor up a notch or two by combining a couple of techniques I recently read about in the "American Woodturner" magazine and this tailstock center looks to be a mandatory part of that process.

I swapped the electric motors around and have a working lathe again. Spending the money for a Oneway, Stubby or other top-end lathe is beginning to make sense. I've already put over $500 into two crummy lathes just to keep one lathe at a time running.

I'm not making any headway on my debts because dropping money into maintaining a minimal equipment configuration and growing my inventory to segue into in-stock / online ordering is not the same as making sales and fixing equipment is not the same as making deliveries.

Okay ... enough whining. G'night.