My workshop

[jim evans]

Exactly, I live in a converted watermill with the river Yeo one side of me and the mill leet on the other, no insurance even offered let alone being too expensive. Hundreds of pounds lost, and another flood alert for tonight so the mud can stay for now, but hey Think Floyd were great, the guitarist absolutely nailed the solos in Time and Comfortably Numb

Always live at to of a hill,lol.

[vmax4steve]

Jeez that's lucky, hand tools should be ok with a thorough clean, but still a lot of work ,not to mention expence to recover, do you get flooded often?

I've only been living here for eighteen months, first time since 2012 according to my neighbours, then it was worse, five feet high, so I'm looking into flood defence barriers for the garage/workshop entrance (living accomodation above) which are rather expensive, about £2000, but will stop it happening again.
After the horse has bolted yes, and I knew I'd be down by the river, but it had the garage/workshop I wanted at a rent I could afford. Now I know I need to defend it better than the scaffold plank and four bags of building sand the previous occupant left behind

[jrc750]

Re the bike that's a bummer, need to take airbox apart maybe to dry it out including filter, also exhaust may be full of water if upswept, loads of wd40 might be a start on electrics. When I drowned a bike in a river doing trials we would just flip bike upside down and let it drain out used to work after taking spark plug and airfilter out.
Will be a bit heavy tho your X4 to do that. Good luck tho

[itsnoteasy]

Jeez that's lucky, hand tools should be ok with a thorough clean, but still a lot of work ,not to mention expence to recover, do you get flooded often?

[vmax4steve]

Sorry to see that Vmax, are your lathes and whatever you have electrical OK?

Yes, hand tools kept in the lower drawers of the tool chest are covered in mud, but main power tools are OK due to being above the waterline. Big clean up tomorrow when the flood alert drops.

[Shockerz]

Blimey. Sorry to see that mate.

Looking at the picture, the river isn't finished yet with the weather warnings. hope that's the last problem you get.

[itsnoteasy]

Sorry to see that Vmax, are your lathes and whatever you have electrical OK?

[vmax4steve]

Bad luck there Steve . No chance of claiming on the insurance ? Bound to be some clause that you are too near a water source

Exactly, I live in a converted watermill with the river Yeo one side of me and the mill leet on the other, no insurance even offered let alone being too expensive. Hundreds of pounds lost, and another flood alert for tonight so the mud can stay for now, but hey Think Floyd were great, the guitarist absolutely nailed the solos in Time and Comfortably Numb

[Neil Taperell]

Bad luck there Steve . No chance of claiming on the insurance ? Bound to be some clause that you are too near a water source

[DeanH]

holy moly - sorry to hear of your troubles!
hope you are back to "normal" soon

[vmax4steve]

Well the workshop/garage got flooded on sunday morning, lost everything that was below three feet, all my sandpaper, wire wool, all my hardwood veneers, glue, finishing products all floated away, a lot of my tools are now covered in mud and need to be cleaned; Motorbikes were flooded as well, X4 won't start through water damage, little 125 Herald started though will need to be looked at, luckily the Vmax was being restored by a local shop.

All my main timber is above four feet on shelves so escaped, part finished cues and shafts are in my flat above the workshop; just had a great night out at a Think Floyd gig in the town (highly recomended BTW) and was buzzing and woke up to this

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What a p1sser !!

[cally]

I remember the first cue you made, was it with babunga ?

I thought you'd be banging um out by now, on the back burner for a few years?

Look forward to seeing your work and how you've progressed with it... should easily be on par with parris by now...

[Hello, Mr Big Shot]

I'm not one to care about exact splicing, my own cue has splices that are all within half an inch of each other but that is of no consequence to how it plays, but my underlying fear is that my latent OCD will take over.

Biggie

if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it is a duck.
Do you seriously believe that I would put my future reputation in the hands of someone who thinks 9 ball is just as hard as snooker and any failure to find a five inch wide pocket from three feet away with a cue I'd made to be solely down to me and my lack of understanding of how difficult 9 ball is and the specialist characteristics required of a 9 ball cue.

I'd be better off making a cue eight feet long and sending it to Earl Srickland

STILL sore, huh? You didn't know something elemental, you were corrected, get over it.

Oh, the top snooker players who are elite American pool players? Oh there's, um, er...oh.

[vmax4steve]

All of us just know vmax will turn out some hot cues. It within his mentality.

I'm not one to care about exact splicing, my own cue has splices that are all within half an inch of each other but that is of no consequence to how it plays, but my underlying fear is that my latent OCD will take over.

Biggie

if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it is a duck.
Do you seriously believe that I would put my future reputation in the hands of someone who thinks 9 ball is just as hard as snooker and any failure to find a five inch wide pocket from three feet away with a cue I'd made to be solely down to me and my lack of understanding of how difficult 9 ball is and the specialist characteristics required of a 9 ball cue.

I'd be better off making a cue eight feet long and sending it to Earl Srickland

[itsnoteasy]

Of course, you can take it of your gross earnings as cost.

All of us just know vmax will turn out some hot cues. It within his mentality.

+1 , I think your bang on with how Vmax will make cues Throtts, every one to the very best of his abilities.