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Burro Viejo Newsletter        September 2010

 

Welcome to the Burro Viejo Newsletter.

This month was a busy one for the Ol' Burro, with getting the table to the State Fair, turning quite a few pens, putting new wheels under the tool benches, and rebuilding the platform for my lathe. With the new platform, the lathe is at a more comfortable height, than with the old platform.
 
Well, the table that I have entered in the competition at the State Fair has been judged, and has finished at 3rd place this year. First place went to a beautiful sewing table, and second went to a very nice, segmented construction side table, with the signs from the zodiac in the top. Both are very well done, and congratulations to those gentlemen.
 
Right now I am trying to work out a good way with PayPal for the shipment of goods I have here for sale. At the moment, it is at the very interesting stage of choosing from one of three options for calculating shipping costs. Until I have this hashed out, and you would like to place an order, please contact me at vams564@hotmail, and I will email you the costs of the item, and shipping.   
 
 
Ongoing Projects
At the moment, I am working on a design for a wine cabinet for my nephew. So far we have agreed on the wood (Walnut), and how many bottles, and glasses he wants it to hold. There will also be a serving tray, with a copper serving surface.

Upcoming Events 

Don't forget! There is still the ongoing end of month raffle for customers. Unfortunately, there wasn't a winner for this go round.
 
 

 

 

 Ol' Burro's Almanack

 

Dear Readers,

Your Ol' Burro has gone gallivanting about the countryside, To see about finding new ideas for my customers, says he, but I know with a certainty, that more often than not, he will be a-wasting time with his woodworking friends, and swapping shop stories.

 

He left his manuscript for this month's newsletter, sealed in an envelope, and asked me as he was scampering out the door, to send it to his typist. I got a whiff of something suspicious about this, and once he was down the road, dancing a merry jig I might add, opened it to see if he had scurrilous things to say about me.  

 

Sure enough, I was proven correct! Right there in his preface, he said that I, his most beloved, adored, and wonderful wife was this, that, and the other! What a prime catch of malarkey! Can I not have a tiny fault or two, but that all of his readers must see them in print?! They have already been told that I am proud, that I can be a bit loud, but now of all things, that now I have taken a liking to good coffee. I had gotten some as a gift last Christmas (from himself no less!), what was I to do, throw it out?

 

In short, I thought that this month's almanack was not worth the typing, and scribbled it all out. I had designs to make other changes to the almanack than this, as I have had the horrible luck to have broken my reading glasses, and which obliges me to give you the rest of the almanack as he had written it, and conclude,

 

                             your loving friend,

                                Mrs. Ol' Burro

               

 

Ol' Burro's Poser

 

Since eclipses take up so little space, I have room to comply with the new requests and propse a mathematical question to the sons and daughters of woodworking. It is this....

 

A certain rich man had 100 farms, each farm was 100 acres, on each acre are 100 white oak trees, each white oak tree was large enough to yield 100 boards. Question, how many were quatersawn? The answer to this question won't be accepted without the solution.

 

 

 

 

 

 Ol' Burro's Advice

 

Buy what you have no need for,

and before long, you will be selling

your necessaries.

 

If you would not be forgotten,

as soon as you are dead and rotten,

take as many photos as thou wilt,

to prove what you have built.

 

If you cut as you should not,

you will have a part you won't want.

 

Time is the herb that cures all finishes.

 

There is much difference between

imitating a master woodworker,

and counterfieting him.

 

Wink at the small faults of others,

for thou hast made great ones.

 

After wasting a great amount of lumber,

pause for a while.

 

He that falls in love with his own work,

will soon have no rivals.

 

Let your first workshop lesson be caution,

and the second may be what you want.

 

Be not cheap, of what costs you nothing.

 

 

Ol' Burro's 10 Shop Virtues

 

1. Temperance - drink not, prior to working in your shop.

 

2. Silence - shout not, upon entering a shop, as one may be using the table saw.

 

3. Order - let all of your tools have their place, and each part of your project have it's time.

 

4. Resolution - resolve to perform a set number of tasks, perform without fail, what you resolve to do.

 

5. Frugality - waste not the least offcut, it may come in use elsewhere.

 

6. Industry - waste no time contemplating a future project, while working on the one at hand.

 

7. Sincerity - use no hurtful deciet in dealing with customers, or suppliers.

 

8. Cleanliness - a tidy shop, is an efficient shop.

 

9. Tranquility - be not disturbed at trifles, or miscuts common, or unavoidable.

 

10. Humility - always remember to accept praise humbly, as there will always be somone else's work you will be in awe of.

 

  
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