Interesting Photos

Where does he live, lower mainland? He should get to know this organization for a start and connections.

The Greater Vancouver Woodturners Guild.
http://www.gvwg.ca/

Yeah...
your friend is certainly talented Z...
as you are D'man..


To an avid craftsman though... it's never about the money. When one feels compelled to do something... or gets huge pleasure out of it... then just getting enough to buy more supplies is generally figured sufficient..

Ill send it on.

Here is a pic of my set up for fluted columns. Home made Index on the left, modified duplicator attachment with router ( laminate trimmer) in front, and lathe bed extention on the right.
The max length is about 55 inches and max flute length is 48 inches. The column on the lathe has been sawed in half and is tied together with white string at each end just for this photo.

To an avid craftsman though... it's never about the money. When one feels compelled to do something... or gets huge pleasure out of it... then just getting enough to buy more supplies is generally figured sufficient..

No it isn't. I want to spend all my time doing my woodturning. I also want another $10,000 worth of equipment so I can add more artistry to it. Plus my own laser etcher for a mere $30,000. But I can't work it full time, because I need income which isn't all that easy to get at this point. So the ideal solution for me is to make enough money from my craft in order to have all the tools I want and also to live well.

There's also an incredible satisfaction when someone is willing to pay lots of money for what you take pleasure in doing. It's recognition of your talent, your accomplishment, your creation. People really appreciate recognition.

So it's about the craft and the money both.

Interesting set-up Zoof. I wondered how that was done.

Must be a rounded bit in the router. Ya also gotta know just what diameter to make the column in order for all the flutes to fit in properly.

No it isn't. I want to spend all my time doing my woodturning. I also want another $10,000 worth of equipment so I can add more artistry to it. Plus my own laser etcher for a mere $30,000. But I can't work it full time, because I need income which isn't all that easy to get at this point. So the ideal solution for me is to make enough money from my craft in order to have all the tools I want and also to live well.

Or...
That could just be a way of ruining a perfectly amazing passion...

I'm a stained glass artisan..
Been doing it for 34 years..
I did it as a living for 5 years until I was perfectly sick of it.
I shut it down and didn't touch glass for almost 2 years.
Now.. I only do contract work at my price..


But I certainly know about the "gosh.. it would be sooo nice to have such and such" aspect of a craft.

Yes.. very interesting setup on the fluted column.
Thanks for checking that out Z...

I kinda figured router... but I wondered how he kept his hand so steady...

calmage wrote:

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Or...
That could just be a way of ruining a perfectly amazing passion...

I'm a stained glass artisan..
Been doing it for 34 years..
I did it as a living for 5 years until I was perfectly sick of it.
I shut it down and didn't touch glass for almost 2 years.
Now.. I only do contract work at my price..


But I certainly know about the "gosh.. it would be sooo nice to have such and such" aspect of a craft.

Hmmm...good point. I know someone who decided to turn his passion into a career and in short order got completely turned off and now won't touch it.

I guess maybe you have to do it on your own terms, which is one good reason to make mega-bucks off each piece that you do.

Another idea that many people have is to take it up full time in retirement. That way there's no pressure to produce.

And I would imagine that it always works better if you're an artist, producing what you want, not what you have to in order to sell.

Texas oil rig and a tornado.

Holy....

I'd hope they have a storm shelter...

Time to get off the golf course er wot?


Interesting email...
Now, a carbon Tax.

Politicians have, in the past, used that old bullshit phrase of "cutting taxes" to get you to vote for them. Now, Stephan Dionne, has come up with a new wrinkle on that old lie : Tax your heating oil and anything else you burn to move your food and everything else that you have always had in your life... but, he'll lower your income taxes.



CONSIDER THIS from a one person who has bothered to do the homework:



When a politician’s lips move, I know he’s probably lying. Mr. Dion says his carbon tax will be revenue neutral. So, I went online and found a carbon calculator and keyed in the annual energy consumption for our household and learned we produce 17 tons of greenhouse gas. Fully 60% of this usage is for electricity which we use to heat our home. I have already improved insulation in my walls and replaced my windows and doors; use the new "twirley" lights and ensured that my appliances are all Energy Star products. In the past 20 years, these measures reduced my electricity usage from 24,000 Kw Hrs per year to 16,000 Kw Hrs per year last years. What is my reward for this improved efficiency? My power bill is unchanged from what it was 20 years ago. But, my power bill would attract a carbon tax of $104 in year one of Mr. Dion’s plan and $ 416 in year four. My power bill would rise from $166 per month to $210 per month in year four.Since I live on a fixed income consisting of CPP and Old Age Security, my income tax bill runs at less than $200 per year. So, for my household, Mr. Dion’s "revenue neutral" carbon tax will cost me $416 per year less income tax reductions of about $10 per year. Revenue neutral? In a pig’s eye! This is a tax on seniors living on fixed incomes. Well, Mr. Dion, you haven’t got a snowball’s chance in hell of ever getting my vote. I hope everyone else takes five minutes to run the same calculations I did and vote to send this joker to the political boneyard.Jon C. Coates - 70 Ridgevalley Rd. - Halifax, N.S. - B3P 2J9

Factual data substantiating this:

16.96 tons

60% of this is for electricity or 10.4 tons/year

@ $10/ton in year 1 = $104 or $9/mo

@ $20/ton in year 2 = $208 or $18/mo

@ $30/ton in year 3 = $312 or $27/mo

@ $40/ton in year 4 = $416 or $40/mo

Income tax paid is $110/yr.

DON'T BUY INTO THE CARBON TAX !

DON'T BELIEVE ANY POLITICIAN FROM ANY PARTY!

PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK IN CANADA.

Carbon taxes...

the whole thing makes me shudder...

Where will it end..?

And I see we still have the BC gov't putting forth that we are battling global warming..

A nanosecond is that tiny speck of time occasionally captured by a camera.

Good stuff!

very kewl...