View Full Version : Thursday evening laugh
Jerry Haynes
Apr-26-2007, 7:07pm
Went to the shop early this morning ...started building a fretboard extender. My helper (dog) was over in the floor resting as usual. Went back into the house for maybe 10 minutes, came back to find dog chewing on fretboard extender. After much discussion on the fact that he has it made, free food , shelter , and attention,, he agreed to not chew on anything in the shop again. NOT !!! After a good laugh, I decided to start on a really nice maple back. After about 2 hours work I noticed that I had sawn it as if it were a top! Now I have one for a lefty. Or maybe something else for the dog to chew. Today I accompolished nothing, will try again tomorrow. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
testore
Apr-26-2007, 7:52pm
I'm taking orders myself for a lefty F that....um didn't start out a lefty.
Mark Franzke
Apr-27-2007, 6:38am
I'm glad that stuff doesn't only happened to me. I cut the scroll on the wrong side of a back, resulting in a nice A-style. My dog chewed up my nut blanks (bone) before I moved them to a higher shelf.
mark
I'm glad you can laugh about it and discuss it frankly with your dog. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif I used to have a great shop dog... my springer spaniel Ubu. She got the cutoffs. I didn't have a woodstove so I fed the scraps to the "chipper" for reprocessing. I don't recall her ever taking anything that wasn't tossed to her.
For recreation I would take scraps of plywood, bandsaw them into disks, then drill a center hole for a 3/8" dowel that would protrude from either side. I would toss the disk to roll like a wheel and she would chase it down. If she didn't get it before it fell over the dowel kept it from laying flat so she could get her mouth on it. She was a great shop companion and hiking/biking buddy.