Conversation with friends

[edicehouse]

There are a couple threads where things have gone way off topic. Some might find that weird or something. But think of it this way, you have a conversation with a friend, it can start off being about pen making. Before you know it you are talking about sports, weather, fishing, hunting, or any number of topics. I believe that is what happens in a really good forum where you feel you are surrounded by friends.

If you are making a pen and royally screw it up, most likely you are not going to tell your customer about it, but you will tell us or people at your local meeting, or the guy at woodcraft, or the vendor when you ask if they have another one of those blanks.

I love the fact I can get on here and ask if someone has spalted pine burls from a yellow pine from South Carolina. Then people will explain why pine is not the best choice, and I might consider this. . .

Several times a thread is started I read it and look forward to what certain people with have to say about it.

Is my opinion on this wrong?

 

[Tieflyer]

Well, you might consider this...

Topic veering is FUN. Part of why I like IAP is the fun you all seem to have in your shops AND in your lives. A member recently passed and I didn't know him but others did and remembered the fun they had talking to him even if just via the forum. That in and of itself is pretty cool. It won't be all serious talk all the time, that's what makes this place alive. If a thread moves in a direction I'm not interested in, I'll read something else. If I have a problem or specific question, it wil probably be answered quickly. If things get silly in the mean time, it's just in good fun.

This is a forum, people will post. The more postings the better!

 

[tbroye]

Let's where can we take this one?

 

[hard hat]

Squirrel!


Again heading out on leave. Took 41 days last fiscal year and am taking a week now. Heading to the Seattle area with my fiancé and a really good friend and coworker. Chances are good that ill hit the Seattle woodcraft again and bring something back I couldn't find at home. Last time I carried a couple boards of real lignum vitae (not argentinian) on the plane with me. Talk about getting odd looks... Or maybe that was my goofy face they were looking at

 

[navycop]

My daughter gave 2 weeks notice to a CRAPPY resturant she waitrees at. And is starting at a resturant ran my a friend of mine (you might of seen the pens I made for him?)

 

[Joe S.]

Let's where can we take this one?

You beat me to it!