Bad Habits

[cherie]

LOL GREY BEARD THAT WAS GOOD!!

[Spartan scroller]

Trying to blow off sawdust while wearing the dust mask. Really hard to do!!
Pat B

I used to poke a hole in the dust mask and put a straw through it.  Blew dust off that way for a while but eventually saliva dripped through the straw and on to my work.  DeeeeSGusting!  I now have a Dewalt with a very good dust blower.

regards,
Terry

[Crabbyboater]

I once had a job at Honeywell as a Calibration Tech.  What this really meant was that I filed very small wires to change the electrical resistance.  We had Precision Calibrators in the lab with me, and the joke was that they had been there so long their files got dull.  That's what made them "precise".  

Is this happening to those of you who wait until the blade gets dull?  Makes your cuts more precise??  LOL.

[northie66]

My bad habit is pushing the wood into the blade.  Another might be ignoring my family to read and post on this board.

Non-scroll saw related would be overeating.  I started that bad habit 10 years ago when I quit smoking.  It's always something.  Oh well, we're all terminal.

[budprine]

I don't know enough about it to know a good habit from a bad one.

[dgman]

My bad habit is not keeping my shop clean. It's so cluttered that I keep tripping over things. Every time I try to take time to clean it something come up!

[scrollgirl]

Is it considered a 'bad habit' to remove the "hold down safety thingy"?  To me, that is the first thing to go on the saw!  When I got my saw new many moons ago I thought I would behave and give it a try but the darn thing was more trouble then it was worth so off it went!  I feel (kind of ) bed because it is one of the first things I tell people to get rid of when they are starting out.  I am sure someone, somewhere found it useful but can't see it for the likes of me! If anyone uses it, please let me know what for!

Another naughty thing I do (or don't do) is I don't wear a dust mask - or safety glasses for that matter! I do wear readers to scroll so I guess that counts for something but before that - nada! (Shhh! - Don't tell anyone!) I scroll at a place at the end of my kitchen so I guess if I don't breath in the sawdust, I would be eating it anyway so either way I am doomed.  (Seriously, I just run the vacuum when I am done and no one would know I work there.)

Oh, and the loud music goes without saying!  

Have fun being 'bad'!

Sheila

[Dawie]

Hi Sheila
I go to a woodworkshop set up for people with a dissability. One of my fellow workers there is partially paralysed, she uses the hold down thingy on the saw as a extra hand to hold down the wood and uses her good hand to saw (guide the wood). She can not do intricate work but gets things done.
As for me I hate that thingy and always put it as high up on the saw as possible when I us it.
Fortunatly my own saw hasn't got one, so no trouble there.
David

[tgaspard]

I am with you, Sheila!  I too make it a point to remove the "hold down safety thingy" on the saw.  That is of no pupose to me.  My bad habits are loud music in the shop from both stereos..LOL.  I am with Cherie on the reason for no dust mask.  I wear ear protection only part of the time and that is when we are cutting alot on the band saw or table saw. I also push the wood into the blade and won't change it until it is so dull that it breaks itself. 

Tonya   

[Rightarm]

    Not wearing a mask when working with walnut. Think I would have learned by now. Dave

[cherie]

I think many of us, after we try our saws and get used to them find that the safety foot gets in the way and is a hassle to raise and put down.  I have taken mine off also.  I do not feel that is a bad habit, just an easier way to get the projects done.

[Becky]

I can definitely go along with the messy shop bad habit.  I did at least clean off the workbench last night.  Now I can see most of the top again instead of just one little (and getting smaller by the day) rectangle.

[jimbo]

What is a saftey mask,a hold down foot,smoking,a clean work shop and an untidy wood pile, are these things bad habits? I thought it was a normal way of life
Jimbo
PS
I gave up smoking 20 years ago does that make GOOD?

[cloetpatrick]

  Me, my bad habit is to first blow the dust with my poor lungs, while I have a great souflerie on my machine. In two, listen to country music and dancing there at the same time as I work, so that I mix my foot in my pedal machine! ...