• It’s all good, if it’s wood…
• Woodpeckers understand…
• If you are not making saw dust … you are collecting it.
• She asked me, “Who are you going to please with that?” I said, “Me.”
• My high school shop teacher said “You can do it”… Now I can’t stop!
• A tube of calk and a gallon of paint will make a carpenter what he ain’t.
• It’s made of wood. Real sturdy.
• People say I hammer like lightning. It’s not that I’m fast, it’s that I never hit the same place twice!
• Slowly drowning in sawdust since 1995.
• I never met a board I didn’t like!
• It don’t have to be straight, it’s just a suggestion!!!
• Dovetail free since ’53.
• Wood is a gift from God/Nature that maintains its beauty forever via the hand of a woodworker.
• I’ve been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood.
• I love the smell of RImu Dust in the morning… it smells like pleasure. – Nighthawk
• …so much inspiration here, and so little time!
• Don’t anthropomorphize your handplanes. They hate it when you do that.
• Don’t try to figure it out… just turn it.
• I totally cool with butt joints.
• Mother nature created it, I just assemble it.
• If the women don’t find you handsome, at least they ought to find you handy.
• Plant as many trees as you can, I have so many projects to make.
• Don’t throw that away, I think I can make something out of it.
• Woodworking – patience = firewood.
• Expert sawdust maker, nothing more.
• Woodworking is 3% talent and 97% not paying attention to the internet – zazzle.com
• If god wanted us to have fiberglass boats he would have given us fiberglass trees.
• I use what I’ve got until I can afford what I need!
• There is no such thing as scrap wood, only lumber large enough for small parts…
• “Mmmmm saw dust… chunky”. – Nighthawk
• Congratulations, you’ve just figured out the most complicated way to hold a board 3 feet off the ground.
• Sawdust is nose-hair fertilizer.
• Don’t worry …. the trim will hide it.
• The sweetest sound in my shop, next to Mozart, is what a hand plane makes slicing a ribbon.
• It’s not a mistake, its a design feature
• Woodworkers are knotty.
• If I had a Domino… I’d mortise and tenon my shoes on in the morning. – Bud 🙂
• Pine is fine.
• I wood rather be making sawdust.
• Use your sand paper as if someone else is buying it.
• With a little bit of faith, and some imagination, you can build anything!
• It always looks better when it’s finished!
• Wood working – patience = firewood.
• Sawdust and shavings are therapeutic.
• Scrap wood’s the best…the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!
• When you think you’ve ran out of ideas to make something, then start building your dreams.
• It’s not a stuff up, I just altered the plans.
• Sawdust? You mean man glitter!
• Sometimes the creative process requires foul language. – Charles Neil
• I’ve cut this board 3 times and it’s still too short.

Tools

• He who dies with the most tools… dies with the emptiest wallet.
• Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
• There aren’t many hand tools as awe-inspiring as the #8 jointer. I mean, it just reeks of cast iron heft and hubris.
• Caution, This machine has no brain use your own.
• I’m just a man with his chisel…
• I need more power… more power tools.
• I have a “Band”… a bandsaw.
• When I die, do not let my wife sell my tools for what I told her I paid for them!
• I have found that hand tools are the best choice when I want to make mistakes at a slower rate of speed.
• There is nothing like the sound of a well tuned hand plane.
• Tools are only as good as the hands that hold them.
• Everything with a power cord eventually winds up in the trash.
• Power tools are good for making stuff up’s faster.
• Sometimes I like to go to the hardware store and run around with a screwdriver shouting, “Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a drill!”

Measure

• Measure twice, cut once.
• Measure twice, cut once, use wood filler for gaps.
• Measure twice, cut once, buy extra just in case.
• Don’t measure cut heaps, make sawdust… It will eventually fit.
• Just cut then measure and make everything else to fit.
• Ruler? A what now?
• The measure of a man is how big his wood pile is???

General

• Rome wasn’t built in a day… But I wasn’t on that job.
• I’ll try to be nicer, if you’ll try to be smarter.
• Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching.
• I ask in order to learn.
• An expert at anything was once a beginner.
• It’s not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability.
• I do not have attention deficit disor……………..hey look, it’s a bunny!
• Regret- the feeling you get just after you do something really stupid.
• Everyday above ground is a good day!
• If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
• Improvidus, Apto quod Victum – Improvise, Adapt, Overcome.
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
• I would drink a river of the kool aid before I took the smallest sip of the tea…
• Sorry the reply is so long. I didn’t have time to write a short reply.
• There are two theories to arguing with a woman…. neither of them work.
• You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
• My mind is like lighting, one brilliant flash, then its gone!
• Mirror Inspector… I can see myself doing that….
• Live to tell the stories, they sound better that way.
• No matter where you go, there you are.
• Complex questions have simple easy to understand wrong answers.
• Failure does not stop me, it makes me try harder… because I’m crazy.
• I long for the days when coke was a cola, and a joint was a bad place to be.
• The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
• Do what you want to do, you’re going to anyway!
• Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn’t looking too good either.
• I may be slow, but I’m easy to stop!!!
• Patience is a byproduct, not a virtue.
• Hard work is not defined by the difficulty of the task as much as a person’s desire to perform it.

Known Quotes

• “Actions speak louder than words but not nearly as often.” – Mark Twain
• “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein
• “There’s nothing in the world so sad as talking to a man, who never knew his life was his for making.” – Ray LaMontagne
• “Make things as simple as possible… but not any simpler.” – Albert Einstein