plug builders stuff

[MikeTLive]

pull... whatever. it's highly overrated.

I thought I remembered watching your posts as you learned to make plugs. So I did a quick search. (love them serches)

from 2003. must have been like crack to make you feel like you need to drop it cold turkey.

Originally Posted by MAC

I've been building plugs for....a whole 3 1/2 weeks now. But I have been a carpenter for going on 20 yrs. Why I never built them before this I have no idea. Like Slip said the money that can be involved can really get up there. This forum has been very helpful ( I've been lurking for a while) and informative. Have I ever sold a plug No, will I ever sell a plug or plugs, probably. Not to make a living though just for something to do on the side. My hat is off to guys like J. Habs and others who do this for a living, it has to be long days.

[JohnR]

MAC - I can't believe I'm seeing this but I can only come to a few possible realizations:

1) You actually are serious - I hope not, because the stuff you do is incredible and I really enjoy seeing over the past few years the standards you've set in building and sharing with people. Just simply great stuff. So if this is not some wierd prank, thank you for what you've done over the past few years.

2) This is some clever plan to upgrade the entire shop

3) You are inheriting Capesam's Basement

4) You are getting into jig making

5) This is truly some joke


Seriously, if this is what you want to do, good luck. Personally I'll be a bit saddened if you hang up your lathe.

[DaveS]

NO!!!!!!

[MAC]

Originally Posted by MikeTLive

pull... whatever. it's highly overrated.

I thought I remembered watching your posts as you learned to make plugs. So I did a quick search. (love them serches)

from 2003. must have been like crack to make you feel like you need to drop it cold turkey.

Yes, I started in Feb of 2003 if I remember right. I never pretended to have been doing it longer. And it is like a drug. If you have never done it, you wouldn't understand. It totally took over my life. (I have small trees growing out of the gutters on the house). I haven't cut a cord of wood (even though I own 4 chainsaws) in those 4 winters either. By next spring I won't need to worry about scraping the house as all the paint will have fallen off. I do know one of my faults is an excessive, compulsive personality. Cold turkey is the only way. It's like cocaine back in the 80's, very addictive. I never touched or tried it though. Because I knew I would have liked it and watched too many friends lives go down the crapper. So lets just drop this "trying to talk me down from the ledge" . My mind is made up and it won't change. family and other parts of my life are more important than spinning wood or catching fish. (no I am not giving up fishing)

As far as the excessive compulsiveness goes, it creeps up on you. Before 2000 I couldn't turn on a computer. (I am still computer illiterate) Was I catching fish before that, yes. My grandfather started me fishing back in the 60's and I've never given up on it. I worked tuna fishing commercially back in the 80s for a while too. But fishing is just a hobby and not my life. Stripers are just fish, not some (holy grail). Read some of the posts on the various fishing sites and you'll see how a lot of people think differently on this. Some are fanatical and some see it just as a way to spend some quality time.