Slobbering Imbecile

[Hippety Hop]

I was attempting to cut some MOP for a headstock. Had the rubber dust mask and head magnifier on, but I've left my aquarium pump blower at my mate's place.

Wiping the dust away was getting to be annoying, so I hunted around and found a piece of rubber tube. Stuck one end up under the mask and in my mouth, and clipped the other end to the cutting board. Hey that works OK.

Soon I started salivating - a bit like Pavlov's dog, I had to remove the hose a couple of times so I could swallow.

Got a bit hard to blow after a while, and I thought the clip had squashed the hose flat. No - so I just blew a bit harder and spurted a stream of saliva over everything.

Turned off the light and went inside.

Hip

[Allen]

Oh there's gotta be some clever comment to go with that, but I can't think of one right now.

[Nick]

So much material to work with & in Allen's camp, Damn it! Still at least you can say it wasn't just your heart & soul that went into this build

[Hesh1956]

Feel better Hip - lots of us drool on our work while building too....

There is an old joke about a farmer with a cross eyed cow and the remedy was a tube placed up the cow's arse that the farmer blew on. The farmer had a farm hand (insert the name of someone that you hate here...).

When a second cow went cross eyed the farm hand removed the tube from the first cow's arse and inserted the other end, the end the farmer blew on, in the second cow's arse.

The farmer yelled "what the hell are you doing" to which the farm hand replied that he did not want to get any of the farmer's germs......

[DarwinStrings]

Interesting way to go about seeing the lustre of the shell Hip, I usually just lick my finger and wipe the shell but....hey...everyone has their own way of doing things.

Jim

[Hippety Hop]

Well I got my aquarium pump back, and everything's fine now while I'm cutting the shell. There is a problem however when I start dremelling the recess. I have the pump tube connected to the S-M router base, with my mask and magnifier on, but the dust keeps blowing in my eyes.

I went over to the pool shop and bought a pair of swimming goggles, but no matter what I do the damn mask keeps fogging up my vision.

It's either dust in the eyes or fogged up glass.

Bloody nuisance.

Any ideas? - other than holding my breath.

Hip.

[obmit]

Swimming goggles Picture please!

[Kim]

Hip,

I use a standard dust mask and run a fan flat out behind me as I work which 'pushes' the dust toward a nozzle-less shopvac hose which runs flat out and is clamped in placed directly behind the work piece to 'pull' the dust away from me. You will find that the air movement created by the fan should also eliminate any fogging of your magnifiers.

Just make sure you place some pantyhose over the intake of the shopvac to prevent loosing those delicate little bits of shell. If your short and need an old pair, send Bob a PM, I believe he has a few pair left over with pink sequins from the recent Mardi Gras.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Cheers

Kim

[Lillian]

I remember my brother saying something about wiping his face shield with shaving cream to keep it from fogging. Slapped on a glob and then rubbed it in. He may have been pulling my leg, but its an easy enough experiment.

[Allen]

I work with a fan to the side of me, and the garage door open. I blow the dust outside. Works for me.

[Stu]

I use this method. Works well and is simple.

http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/Luthier ... lflag.html



cheers, Stu

[Nick]

I use this method. Works well and is simple.

http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/Luthier ... lflag.html
cheers, Stu

Classic! As I often say, it's the simple things that impress me the most & it has to be simple for me to understand it in the first place

[Hippety Hop]

Thank you for the suggestions. The piece of tape on the bit might help. Nothing ever blows out my back door. Only in.

I couldn't believe how the swimming goggles fogged up on the inside. Must be steam coming off my eye-balls? I wiped them with a clean rag, and they smeared. Put some metho on the rag and that made them worse.

[sebastiaan56]

I used to spit on the inside of my goggles when swimming, dunno if it helped but it looked macho!

[DarwinStrings]

The method in the pic solved all pearl dust problems but as kim says hold onto your workpiece, I have lost the odd bit up the pipe. Also I use kims method of the fan from behind as well as a bit to the side then just blow the work every now and then when cutting pockets, I don't get dust in my eyes at all. I'm not sure how your eyes are Hip but nowdays I wear two pairs of reading type magnifying glasses( my partner calls me six eyes) it looks silly but I get a 5x mag with a set of 2x and a set of 3x, just the $7 ones from Crazy Clarks as they don't seal they don't fog.



Jim

[obmit]

I used to spit on the inside of my goggles when swimming, dunno if it helped but it looked macho!

Acube of potato works aswell

[Kim]

I used to spit on the inside of my goggles when swimming, dunno if it helped but it looked macho!

Acube of potato works aswell

Nadine, Ruby-Lou or Delaware??

[J.F. Custom]

I used to spit on the inside of my goggles when swimming, dunno if it helped but it looked macho!

Acube of potato works aswell

Nadine, Ruby-Lou or Delaware??

Pontiac... Got to be Pontiac.

Actually, I'm not quite sure whether the cube of potato is for the goggles or to help look macho

Honestly, you learn something new in this game every day. Sometimes, in quite an unexpected way.

Heres' to new techniques!

[Allen]

I tried Frank Fords tape flapper, but the noise it made drove me mad. I couldn't concentrate on cutting on the line. Perhaps others have a higher tolerance level to that sort of thing. I just get cranky.