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There is dried glue on every pair of jeans you own

You no longer look at the back of sand paper to determine the grit

In the middle of watching Avatar your mind keeps drifting back to how you will cut a difficult new joint

When your nose runs, the color varies from project to project

Your wife complains about wood chips in your bed

You always have a great story when the topic turns to gross injuries

You know you are REALLY a woodworking/guitar making fanatic when you look at "Home Tree" in Avatar and and dream of the figure in that tree and wonder how many sets you could cut from that!

Shane

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Canada

When you are retired and working 7 days a week...

When you don't finished your first guitar yet, but have wood to build almost 10...

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Francis Richer, Montréal
Les Guitares F&M Guitars

...When you start looking at high-end furniture and determining the resaw potential.

...when you start evaluating the tap tone of every table in the house

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JJ
Napa, CA
http://www.DonohueGuitars.com

when, at the age of 30, you have stockpiled enough wood to last you well into retirement at your current build rate.

When you make OLF your home page.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

........ you encourage your children to play as many instruments as possible just so you have an excuse to build one.

Good one Lactose.

........you are over 60, and have enuf Lutz to build til you are 160.

Bob

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Olivier Gauthier
Montreal, QC

When your wife needs to talk face to face with you any other time than dinner she has to go to the shop.

Your wife thinks you love your guitars and shop more than her. (Don't make me choose) just a joke.

When you accompany her to Target, Walmart, etc... you always look for kitchen gadgets on sale I.E., spaghetti slicers, electric plastic lid crock pots, etc...

Now that she knows you can build guitars and finish them beautifully she keeps a list of things to build or refinish in the house.
Forcing you to explain the economics of buying or building something.

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"Try to be the person your dog thinks you are."

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WOW, I guess I'm a bonafied fanatic. Can't find a single one I'm not guilty of!!

I love these!

You pick a splinter out of the cutoff bin to pick your teeth and stop because you think, "I could use that somewhere."

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"Building guitars looks hard, but it's actually much harder than it looks." Tom Buck

Your shop is the size of a closet, you don't own a vehicle, you can't even run 220 into your building because of your landlord and yet you still insist on torturing yourself by checking the BOYD on www.owwm.org every single day.

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Burton
http://www.legeytinstruments.com
Brookline, MA.

I brace one side of my bread for my sandwiches with mustard, using a 7 fan brace Torres pattern. Sometimes I go the extra mile and scallop them to the bread.

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It's this new idea from recent decades that everyone gets a participation award. - MUX

.....when you worked a whole career in composites but always felt guilty.

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I read Emerson on the can. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...true...but a consistent reading of Emerson has its uses nevertheless.

StuMusic

- When instead of tossing old yogurt containers into recycling, you wash them, then save 'em for mixing epoxy.
- When you love the smell of hot hide glue.

Instead of fantasizing about women ;
you fantasize about guitars sets!

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Mike Collins

Get some help, Mike!

I may be a woodworking fanatic, but I'm not dead!

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Waddy

Photobucket Build Album Library

Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Nice Waddy !
I'm a prostate cancer survivor.
When they take the prostate out -they take the nerves & muscles to help with the other stuff-If ya get what I mean.
So I have to really fantasize about wood now!
Women are expensive also !
Mc

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Mike Collins

...you continually create enough wood shavings to landscape the yard....in different colored woods!!!

the dog now prefers wood shavings on his blanket....feels more at 'home'...

you no longer own any T-shirts because of F-polishing.
and as above, all cloths have glue on them.


Lars

The only reason I'm not guilty of every one of those is because I'm not married lol, but I have noticed the multicoloured snot thing

If you cut yourself with a chisel your first priority is to make sure there is no blood on the guitar, then you see how deep it is.

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When your wife starts refering to herself , to her friends as a sawdust widow . When
some of your best conversations are through the shops open window !







With all the knowledge here at the forum , I bet we could figure a way to fix it. SAAAYYY some HHG and a quartersawm Maple Brace ?

Just kidding Mike just kidding

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