Nice project. It's also nice to see that even expert woodworkers need a couple of iterations before they land on a process that works for them.

@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker

7 ай бұрын

Thank you, especially on the lathe, I'm not that good on it so I'm pretty sure anyone can make this kind of ornaments pretty quickly. So to avoid anyone to make my mistake I showed them....

Joyeux Noel, Alain! Turned out great, and it will be cool to see what the wood contrast looks like in a few years. That cherry will darken beautifully!

@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker

7 ай бұрын

Thank you. I wish it will darken a bit, it's why I used a bee's wax mix, to allow the cherry to darken over the year. On the coat racks I made, I used water based finish, now both of them are light as birch and the weird thing is that one never see the sun and the other is 365 days directly hit by the sun and both of them are so pale and get paler every year, so it seem to me at least....

Lovely old job

@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker

7 ай бұрын

Thank you

Wow, your Christmas tree is a work of art, Alain! Sorry I meant to post a reply to your comment discussion last week RE: surnames after marriage, but had to spend the week travelling for work. However I had the weird co-incidence of being on a plane next to two women discussing what surname they were going to take when married, and what the consequences would be for the surnames of any prospective children. The discussion became quite animated (everyone seated anywhere near them could hear every word), and I began to wonder if the wedding was actually going to be cancelled in my hearing, but happily it was still going ahead when we all disembarked. If there'd been a gap in the argument I was going to suggest that they move the wedding to Québec, and then the whole dispute over surnames would have been settled for them...

@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker

7 ай бұрын

Thank you, Renée is taking care of all the decor in our house and especially the Christmas tree, I only make ornaments 😉 What a coincidence yes here they would have no argument the woman would just keep her name, kids on the other hand can have both parents name, but it's not that commun, because names can become unbearable think of it; Vaillancourt is long enough; both our kids knew all the letters of the alphabet just because of my name. I had a coworker who gave her surname to their daughter, this is uncommon when people are married, her reasoning was, her husband have a super common french name and surname, but wouldn't be able to save his own life if speaking french was the only way to save himself.. So she gave their daughter her surname which is Italian so it's not that strange if an Italian name can't understand french in a french city....

@davidhaywood8029

7 ай бұрын

@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpeckerYour co-worker with the Italian name is clearly a far-sighted woman! Please pass on my compliments to Renée for the decorating (though I think the ornaments are also a major part of the success!)...

@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker

7 ай бұрын

Thank you very much, I will

You know, my kids would probably kill to have so much snow to play with as you do... and then you silly Canadians go on vacation to a place that is three times "worse". People always think there's so much snow in Switzerland but a few mountainous regions aside, we really can't compete with much of Canada.

@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker

7 ай бұрын

I know, my friend who live near Lausanne wants to come snowmobiling with me next winter. I told him that it won't be like paid snowmobile vacation, because to get to the cottage we will have to snowshoe for at least one kilometre and it will be -25° inside the cottage. He answered "I'm Swiss I know what snow is" LOL Hopefully he will be able to come and surely I will make an episode on our snowmobile week

@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse

7 ай бұрын

@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpeckerNot knowing the dude, he may be right... but Lausanne isn't all that mountainous either. Minus 25 is something we only usually see when going skiing and then you do that for a few hours, while moving a lot... and then you go Apres Skiing :D. Again, this guy may be above average in sturdiness but chances are he's gonna get a nice wake-up call if he really does accompany you. We Swiss usually have no concept for how large and unpopulated Canada can be. I would expect a helicopter being the only viable emergency rescue vehicle up there gives you a different appreciation for nature's power.

@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse

7 ай бұрын

@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker Just had a look... there's a hill next to Lausanne that's 1000m. No chance he's used to your kind of snow outside of skiing vacation :D.

@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker

7 ай бұрын

I'm also pretty sure he will be pretty amazed on all the snow we have and we're just 44 meter of the sea level, far from being on a mountain... But last week I made him a video on a 6 days trip from my back yard to my cottage and back here without sledding in the same trail more than maybe 100Km. I can go to my cottage in pickup in 6 hours but it's impossible in snowmobile, 50Km/h is a good average. Around here we have to stop at every road, up north the trails have no straight stretch and it's quite exhausting making turns without slowing down...