woodworking - a transferable skill

[BMac]

For my whole school life and working life I had cheese sandwiches for lunch until, one day after 20 years of marriage, I opened my lunch and there was roast pork and apple sauce sandwiches. They were very nice and, when I came home from work, my wife asked "What did you think of your sandwiches?" Like a fool I replied "They were lovely, but what happened to the cheese?" My wife then said "I am sick making cheese sandwiches, if you want them you can make them yourself". So I did, :lolfor the next 10 years until I had to retire).


New Topic - Peanut Butter

OK this will slay you - a sandwich with peanut butter, banana, strawberry jam and..... Cheddar cheese! It's a sort of sweet & sour deal and very delicious.

Happy eating,
Brendan

 

[studders]

OK this will slay you - a sandwich with peanut butter, banana, strawberry jam and..... Cheddar cheese! It's a sort of sweet & sour deal and very delicious.

Happy eating,
Brendan

Similar to my Neopolitan Sarnie.... 1/3 Peanut Butter, 1/3 Strawberry Jam, 1/3 Marmite. Sounds disgusting, tastes brilliant.

The other great sarnie is Cheese and Apricot Jam. Ace.

 

[MikeG.]

I had Tuna sandwiches every day for the whole of my school career.

If I like something I see no reason to change it

You may like it, but the tuna don't! There isn't a species of tuna that isn't endangered or seriously endangered, with Bluefin likely to become extinct in less than 3 years. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE53D00320090414

Sorry to be boring.

Mike

 

[Benchwayze]

Cooking's like woodworking.
So many tools and gadgets to go for and a special place needed to do it! And the things you can make! Like... ccasion5:


:lol:
John

 

[Evergreen]

As far as transferrable skills are concerned, the ability to smooth a piece of iroko with interlocking grain is ideal training for the higher art of...ironing.

I find that a well fettled Rowenta Professional (with sole flattened to 0.003" total deviation and just a whiff of silicone) is ideal for smoothing anything, from those little pleats just above the shirt cuffs to the rebellious nightmare of a fitted bottom bed sheet.

Body stance and balance are also transferrable skills from planing to ironing, as you smoothly shift the downward pressure from the toe of the iron to the heel as you complete each stroke.

If only Clifton made a real iron, I mean one that produces steam, not shavings......

 

[woodbloke]

As far as transferrable skills are concerned, the ability to smooth a piece of iroko with interlocking grain is ideal training for the higher art of...ironing.

I find that a well fettled Rowenta Professional (with sole flattened to 0.003" total deviation and just a whiff of silicone) is ideal for smoothing anything, from those little pleats just above the shirt cuffs to the rebellious nightmare of a fitted bottom bed sheet.

Body stance and balance are also transferrable skills from planing to ironing, as you smoothly shift the downward pressure from the toe of the iron to the heel as you complete each stroke.

If only Clifton made a real iron, I mean one that produces steam, not shavings......

My son has just started at the beginning of what will hopefully be a fairly high powered career in City finance...we think of him every Sunday night having to wield the iron on his double cuffed shirts - Rob

 

[jimi43]

As far as transferrable skills are concerned, the ability to smooth a piece of iroko with interlocking grain is ideal training for the higher art of...ironing.

I find that a well fettled Rowenta Professional (with sole flattened to 0.003" total deviation and just a whiff of silicone) is ideal for smoothing anything, from those little pleats just above the shirt cuffs to the rebellious nightmare of a fitted bottom bed sheet.

Body stance and balance are also transferrable skills from planing to ironing, as you smoothly shift the downward pressure from the toe of the iron to the heel as you complete each stroke.

If only Clifton made a real iron, I mean one that produces steam, not shavings......

I would prefer it if you would refrain from making such suggestions on an open forum...

WHAT on EARTH do you think you are doing!!



I have enough problems hiding my eBay screen from her indoors without THIS! And I thought it was safe to come in from the shed....not anymore!

:wink:

Jim

 

[TEO]

As far as transferrable skills are concerned, the ability to smooth a piece of iroko with interlocking grain is ideal training for the higher art of...ironing.

I find that a well fettled Rowenta Professional (with sole flattened to 0.003" total deviation and just a whiff of silicone) is ideal for smoothing anything, from those little pleats just above the shirt cuffs to the rebellious nightmare of a fitted bottom bed sheet.

Body stance and balance are also transferrable skills from planing to ironing, as you smoothly shift the downward pressure from the toe of the iron to the heel as you complete each stroke.

If only Clifton made a real iron, I mean one that produces steam, not shavings......

My son has just started at the beginning of what will hopefully be a fairly high powered career in City finance...we think of him every Sunday night having to wield the iron on his double cuffed shirts - Rob

That used to be me, way back in big bang 86 - big braces and double cuffs. Took me three years to figure out that screwing everybody for every penny was the work of the morally bankrupt. Six years of climbing later, some of it payed as a steeplejack but most of it playing in the Alps and I was ready to buy tools, take rough wood down to a silky finish and make things for a living. Hasn't been without a few moments and the pips have never really stopped squeeking but I've never looked back at the "merchant banker" I was with anything but relief. maybe some things haven't changed, maybe I'm still a w****r; apologies for pouring cold water, there were after all a couple of people there with real integrity, hopefully your son will meet some of them. Rant over, Viva la revolution!

 

[TEO]

PS.
Cheese and chutney (made to my mums recipe) everyday for longer than I can remember.
Anybody noticed how modern cutlery is useless for spreading, bone handles and wide springy blades rule!

 

[big soft moose]

The ability not to lose your temper that woodwork engenders from discovering that yet again yout two suposed 45 deg mitres do not make a perfect 90 deg joint

is also very useful when you discover that your dimwit subordinate has put the 50 quid auger set away wet and it is now covered in a nice layer of rust :roll: