How'd Ya Git Yer Username

[Jeff]

when ya have the only fresh fish market in 100 mile radius, they ain't much else to be called ;D

Oops, for a second I thought I was in the "Smells that make me happy" thread. I'm glad I'm not.  :D

[fishman]

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D   ya, that works too ;D ;D

[Paschale]

That's what I do for a living.  It's kind of a mouthful, or should I say a fingerful to type, but "Spinner" was taken when I signed up.  It's a cool thing to see, but the large production runs are boring, so I check in here every now and then to see what's new.

I have some of metalspinner's spun metal here at home, in the form of a terrific trombone mute.  Yup...as part of his work, he makes some awesome mutes.  It's one of the best I've ever tried, and it's my "go to" mute now.

[WDH]

OK........so what is a trombone mute ???.

[beenthere]

Ya prefer dat da guy in front of ya stuffs it in yur horn, and not summers else.....but it does quiet things down..... ;D

Paschale can 'splain it better..

[Tom]

Now that you mention it, I'm curious if there is any difference in a Metal mute as opposed to a wooden mute, or  a Derby hat?   And, is a Wow Wow really any different than any other kind of mute, or is it the way the instrument is played?

[metalspinner]

Yes, Tom, all of those things have different sounds and are played in different ways.  In fact, the type of metal the mute is made of effects the tone quality as well.  Certain passages need a particular "color" of tone.  We have over 20 different trumpet mutes alone in our line.

Ya prefer dat da guy in front of ya stuffs it in yur horn, and not summers else...

That is very funny. :D :D  Around here, the trumpet section sits right behind the violas in the orchestra - within 6'.  Its pretty funny to us (the trumpet section) but they do not think it is very funny at all. :D :D

[happyj]

Combination of what my folks called be growing up and when i played football.
My folks called me happy because is am a junior and my dad did not want people to call me junior or jr. Then when i was playing football some of the team started calling me happy - j
I can not even answer to my real name because i never heard it even when roll call would come around someone would have to poke me. At one point i planned to add it legally but man that would create all sorts of issues this far along in life. loans, social security, retirement...

[musikwerke]

A number of years ago I was doing a fair amount of musical antique repair - enough so that even though it was part-time, I figured that I ought to be claiming it as income.  Then I thought that if I did that I should file as a business and get the benefits of the deductions that are allowed for such.  Then I thought that I should have a name for my business and being the cheap, I mean financially conservative, person that I am, I tried to come up with a unique name that had my name in it so that people could find me in the phone book without my having to pay for a commercial listing.  Not having any luck with my imagination, one night I happened to glance at the Austrian made barrel orchestrion in my collection and there in plain site was the beveled glass nameplate " Oskar Scheuring's Musikwerke, Ebermannstadt"  My problem was solved.  I simply changed the first part to John Powers' and the last part to Harpswell.  I has come in handy on the Internet.  I have yet to register anywhere on-line and find that it has already been used!

[Handy Andy]

  More than 30 years ago I did a couple school terms as a shop teacher.  The kids named me "Handy Andy".  Still consider some of them friends.  Jim

[Warbird]

I've been "Warbird" online since before there was a world wide web.  Chose it because 'phoenix' was too common and I like war planes.

[zopi]

Zopi is short for Elzopilote...which means "buzzard" in spanish....cribbed it out of The Milagro Beanfield War....the New Mexico Trilogy...it was an insult in the book for a guy who was quite the *** hole...i've always been compared favorably with killer the buzzard...mama done tol' me......to bring her some dinner.....

hence....zopi...

and,
www.buzzardscustompaint.com

it's a hobby.

go figure...harley black and orange...and woodmizer black and orange...coincidence?


nahh.

[DanG]

Wow, Zopi!  Dat's yo' work?  Really nice stuff! 8)

[zopi]

Yep..that's me...and got started by accident too...my wife is a writer/journalist/wood splitter/off bearer ;D and she wanted to do some work in motorcycles....we did a buch of product reviews (free stuff! Woohoo!)  and the deitor wanted something technical...so i did a home powder coating how to....first one thing and the next we are airbrushing helmets...holy cow! i can do this!

did a couple of bikes and helmets and it takes off....

it is ust a hobby business at this point...maybe i'll try to go full time whne i retire out of Navy....or maybe i will be a sawin' ;D

[Tom]

Or get a camper trailer and set up shop on the road.  The Good airbrush artists work  Daytona on Bike week (they are there a couple of weeks) and don't have to work the rest of the year unless it turns them on.  You have to build a name.  Sign everything you do.

[zopi]

Or get a camper trailer and set up shop on the road.  The Good airbrush artists work  Daytona on Bike week (they are there a couple of weeks) and don't have to work the rest of the year unless it turns them on.  You have to build a name.  Sign everything you do.

Funny you should mention that...I built my studio in a 28ft Haulmark jobsite trailer...office, studio and spray booth.

I really try to stay away from the big shows...If I go full time It will be necessary though.

[Bill]

I mighta made it up -

Seems that when I went to my first ever day of school the kids couldn't or wouldn't use my    right first name ( don't remember nor know whether any bloody noses were involved ) but when I went home seems I announced to my folks that from then on I was to be known as Bill. Mighta been the teach offering a nickname off my middle name - probably what happened but it's turned out to be handy - when there's a call or mail for my first name ( which I use for legal type documents ) everyone knows to be on guard because anyone I've met calls me Bill.

[sleepy]

I'm a truck driver and I am not a morning person  :. When I was training to drive we would leave out early in the morning. When my trainer was driving I would often doze off. He gave me the CB handle "Sleepy" after the seven dwarfs. It stuck, now some of my fellow drivers don't even know my real name and I've kinda gotten attached to it.  I guess you could say I earned it. ;D

[a old timberjack]

sounds like i am a old fart, but i am a young guy ( 35 ) but my old beast is just  A OLD TIMBERJACK .

[Piston]

i wanted to name my dog "Piston" i guess cause i love anything with an engine, and enjoy tearing them apart (its gettin em back together that can get confusing  :D) i thought it would be a cool name for an english mastiff, well when we got our mastiff, he already had a name, so i guess i figured i  needed to use it somewhere...

[thecfarm]

New members,tell us how.

[sawdust]

Zopi, you mention home powdercoating. This is possible then? I would like to be able to coat my jigs. I used to take them to a shop but our area is so booming that it took three weeks turnaround. To speed things up I would take any color they were doing that day and the varying paint thickness would interfere with the working of the jig.
where am I going here.... do you have a copy of your article or can you suggest a book?
and Is it difficult?

much appreciated. Sawdust

[snowman]

My user name was my nickname before I ever discovered these dang computers. In winter I don't wear a raincoat, they make me sweat. I wear wool instead and the snow from trees unloading on me all day just sticks.That and the frosted beard as I came up out of my strip each day earned me the name. Riggin crew always joked, "here comes snowman". I guess it's better than griz which was my nick name when I was hookin. :D

[SwingOak]

I've got lurchers - three of them at the moment. I like lurchers!

[SwingOak]

Zopi, you mention home powdercoating. This is possible then? I would like to be able to coat my jigs. I used to take them to a shop but our area is so booming that it took three weeks turnaround. To speed things up I would take any color they were doing that day and the varying paint thickness would interfere with the working of the jig.
where am I going here.... do you have a copy of your article or can you suggest a book?
and Is it difficult?

much appreciated. Sawdust

One of the guys who works in my department builds trials and dirt bikes as a hobby, he likes the old Hodakas and Zundap motors. He's got a full machine shop in his basement and garage, and bought a used electric oven for powder coat curing. There's lots information on the internet about home powder coating, it's not hard to do but requires a investment of a few hundred bucks in equipment. It's worth it if you are going to be doing a lot of it.