[Woodcarver] New Question

[CRaig Watson]

Late at night I will carve in the TV room  leaving chips as y`all know. One
night I missed some and Elsa hit the roof yelling for me to get down here.
 With apologies I cleaned up.  Should be the end of the story but my sick
humour kicked in ....... That night I got out the Arbortech and started to
rough out a new piece and left ankle deep chips all around the chair.   Next
am she (Elsa) never said a word but did look overwhelmed.   I quickly
cleaned up but she never said another word
CRaig

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Joe Dillett <jdillett at thecarvingshop.net>wrote:


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>  Hey Doug,

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> Clean-up is always a problem if those chips find their way into the threads

> of a carpet. I hate that and don't have a good solution other then getting

> on your hands and knees to pull those buggers free from the carpet. At Home

> Shows most places have an industrial carpet that is a tight weave or an

> indoor/outdoor type of carpet. I find I can sweep most of the chips with a

> stiff bristle broom and the tough ones will loosen if I poke the bristle

> into the chips rather then drag the broom over them. The show facilities

> don't seem to mind following up with their industrial vacuum to get those

> tiny chips I leave behind.

>

> The most unusual place I carved was on the set at WGN TV morning news. It

> was to promote one of the Home Shows I was in. I was carving a mantel and

> had more mantels on display on the set. This was when those vacuum robots

> were new and they were playing with one on the set. The talent suggested a

> chip contest between the vacuum and I. When I saw the hole in the bottom, to

> suck up the dirt, was only about 1-1/2 inch diameter, I knew it would

> struggle with chips that were longer. It was an hour news show where I had

> several spots plus the interview. Every time I moved my feet the robot had

> to learn my new postion. Sometimes there was quiet on the set, so I couldn't

> carve and other times they wanted construction-like background noise

> (pounding) like when the report from Hollywood was on. They joked that they

> were constructing a new set. Another thing that happened near the end of the

> segment was one of those large light bulbs in the ceiling blew up with a big

> POP. It was a fun time.

>

> Joe Dillett

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>  Hi all,

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>

> I have  a new questions where I hope we can have some fun and pass on some

> good tips with our chips !

>

>

>

> When carving outside of your shop, the family room, doctor’s office, the

> trendy expensive restaurant , church how do you clean up your chips ?

>

>

>

> I know the sheet method , the mini-vacuum etc. What specifically do you use

> ? I have tried so many mini=vacs for a quick clean up only to find they

> don’t have the SUCK power to get the job done.

>

>

>

> Tell us when how you have caught HE double hockey stick form others for

> those D#@n chips laying all over ??  Where is the most unusual place you

> have ever carved ?/(I’m leaking this to the Chinese !)

>

>

>

> My wife (the luck one) Mary Ann will love it if I learn any clean up

> techniques ! (no take a shower comments please )

>

>

>

> I can only imagine where this will go (I have a very limited imagination )

> !

>

>

>

> Have fun !

>

>

>

> Doug Evans

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