[RussL.]

Got a set of oil stones, the Chris Pye letter-carving DVD, Hans Sandom's Acanthus carving video, a gift card to Woodcraft...
and a two year renewal to my WCI subscription!

RussL.

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

I agree with catspa, used to work in a print shop and the owner and I moved a huge old type setting machine, the ones that made the lead type....we jacked it with levers enough to get pipes under it and the two of us rolled it to the back door...easy as pie.....must have weighed a ton or more .

[Marci MN]

ahh.. its a Milling machine.. I coulda swore that looked like a mammogram machine.. its got to be a close cousin....

You folks all sound like you had a great Christmas!!

[decoycarve]

Rick,
I rented an engine lift and used straps and chains to move mine.
Goody

[Thomp]

Told my grandson."remember santa clause is watching you" as i put a santa practice block with 7 faces on it, in full view of all..
my grandson said take it away, i cant be that good. paw paw .!!

rick, that must be my case, just not being good enough..
i got a great haul though
10" craftsman bandsaw,
a wire welder,
a blue tooth earpiece for my cellphone,
a $50.00 bill, guess its better than a guift card,
and 5 roughouts and a box of wood... from carving buddy's

and more good chow than one person deserves...

but being home with all my family healthy was the best present of all,

[North Wind]

I got my grandkids for the day and then we got to keep them over night. we camped out in the living room and ate all of grandma`s goodies.Oh ya,got the power carving set( flexcut gouges)for doing my roughouts.I also got the worksharp 3000,kinda present to myself.I told the wife if I could get it that I would cut myself alot less.

[susieq]

Santa was waaaay to good to me this year, cause I am usually pretty naughty. But there was a beautiful set of stainless professional bonsai tools under the tree. Some I-tunes music cards, a new set of earbuds for the ipod too.

Rick, I didn't know you are a machinist......nice looking mill. Now you need to find time on the weekends to go to yard sales and estate sales, as well as checking out the classifieds. My husband finds lots of goodies related to mills and lathes. My brother has a machine shop set up in his garage and he usually winds up with those things but they are out there to be found. hunting.

[chuckt]

Well, I made out amazingly well for Christmas this year. A subscription to WCI from my MIL (yeah - way to go mom!). The Chris Pye Sharpening DVD AND the Ivan Whillock Traditional Carving 2 DVD set. (Both EXCELLENT!) Several good CDs from my Brother in Law. The U2 Special Edition Joshua Tree CD/DVD box set from my wife.

AND . . . from my wife and kids . . . a $1k shopping spree to buy machines for my shop. Gotta think on this one though . . . because I want to outfit it with a 14" band saw, table saw, jointer & planer. I'll be looking for good used machines and hope I can do all this in this budget. If not then I'll probably go for the band saw and table saw and joint/plane by hand with hand planes for now.

Me WAAAAYYYY HAPPY!!! :-)

Of course . . the best present is another year of health and happiness with my family. Everything else is just icing on the Christmas cake.

to all!
ChuckT

[Tom H]

Well after just returning home from the holidays and seeing this thread I got to thinking. Thomp said it, when said he got his family and all being healthy and such. Me too! We tend to give a whole lot more than get, which is by design. I got Mark Gargacs DVD. Which I cannot wait to get into. Got a new sweatshirt, and several gift cards for eating out. Money to buy a good photo scanner. And perhaps best of all NO socks, underware, or any implements of work. But we got a very huge regional sewer plant going in across the field from me. I been fighting this thing for several months now. Damn laws let a developer get an area declared blighted and then the developer gets all kind of public money to do whatever he seems to want to do. In our blighted area the average home value is around $210,000. Sorry for that last paragraph. It was still a great Christmas.
Tom H

[rick-in-seattle]

Originally Posted by susieq

Rick, I didn't know you are a machinist......nice looking mill. Now you need to find time on the weekends to go to yard sales and estate sales, as well as checking out the classifieds. My husband finds lots of goodies related to mills and lathes. My brother has a machine shop set up in his garage and he usually winds up with those things but they are out there to be found. hunting.

Susan,
Yes, I worked as a machinist for 10 years; then as an inspector for about the last 20.

Goody, the engine hoist sounds like a plan.