Another thing I should have done 20 years ago

[Mike W]

I made a shield out of 1/8 aluminum on the back side of my lathe to keep from throwing chips all over the place. I then made a tray to sit under the ways that will collect most of the chips. I just pull it out and dump them in a can. Real low tech and maybe took an hour to do. Maybe I really am getting smarter as I get older.

[Alistair Hosie]

I am currently looking at a tray possibly an agricultural seed tray, or photographic developing tray.
These are flattish and long so that they will fit under the bed easily.
But if you want expert advice John Stevenson is your man.
He has a kind of collection device under his bed too but that only till his lavatory gets fixed. Beat that John Alistair

[abn]

I was going to put a shield on my lathe too; to keep from throwing coolant against the wall...Then I saw that Jackson Pollack movie. Now I just grab a beer and watch the patterns.

[Alistair Hosie]

abn there are people here who call themselves artists who would try and sell those images to the national Gallery and there are those who know **** about art who would buy them too using our taxpayers money .It's great what you can call art when you've been on psychodelic drugs and have millions of taxpayers pounds to spend.Hey incidently do you have any old I mean artistic swarf that needs dispalying ask those in charge of the Art department at the national or Tate galleies London you could bcome rich like all the other bozo's and neer -do-wells.
ach I am ffeelin sick noo from talkin aboot
it yaaaakkkk heeewwww Alistair
"good god "
does anyone want to buy vomit "er I mean" artisticall regurgitated art Alistair

[retep]

Well as someone who's at various parts of my short life called myself a computer programmer, potter, amature machinist and artist what I have to say is this. The problem with a lot of modern art is that the first few people do do anything in a genre, like Jackson Pollack, have to be brillient and outstandingly creative to come up with the idea. But once it's out there it's so easy to copy that half a million idiots calling themselves "artists" think they can just copy the original's work.

It's like the first people back in the 1950's (and even 1920's!) to do the whole "ooh, lets go and deface the cross and/or lock ourselves in a glass box for a week!" style of performence art were creative and brave souls ahead of their time anyone doing it now is just as likely some uncreative idiot just trying to shock people.

That said, starting in september I'm going to be studying industrial design so at least if I can't make it as an artist I'll be able to design some pretty bathroom fixtures and CNC machining center consoles.

[wheatland47]

I propped a 2' x 3' piece of plexi-glass behind my lathe, against the wall with the bottom edge of the plex in the Chip pan. It helps a great deal!!

[Techtchr]

Art is a difficult thing to define, understand and sometime do. I don't pretend to understand or even like some of the modern art that is available. I enjoy going to the Met in NYC to look at their musical instrument collection, sculptures that look like people frozen in stone, stained glass, and the unbelievable Frank Loyd Wright room.The other stuff is cool too. Once while in the upper floors of the Guggenheim museum some of my group was admiring the mobiles hanging lifeless so we decided to blow on the mobiles to make them move. Guards were about one step away from throwing us out. We explained its a mobile its supose to move! Look don't touch, not even blowing. We went to the motor cycle exibit there a couple of years ago. WOW! what a variety of Art that was. The show outside the museum was almost as good as the show inside.
Matt

[jfsmith]

Matt,
You mean you missed the motorcycle art show

Art is defined as some work that makes you feel something about the piece of art. So if you see a pristine Bridgeport, and have feelings over it, that means that you appreciate the work of the men who built that Bridgeport. When you feel angry about the idiot who abuses machinery, then you appreciate the art of destruction. If you don't have feeling over each case, then you are no longer alive.

Jerry

[jim davies]

"Art is defined as some work that makes you feel something about the piece of art"

You mean like in Penthouse?

[Al Messer]

Alistair, I have a surplus commercial Bakers' "Sheet Pan" under my S-B Shaper. I bought it at a surplus sales company for $3.50, cheaper than going on down the street and buying the sheet metal from a supplier and having one made!