Guest: Eli Polite
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What are we working on? * Bob + Lawn Mower Repairs + Bushing Storage * Rebecca + Making a new piece + Sanding in class while the students work + Showing them my work and explaining how it’s done + Two Interactive Remote Demonstrations * Mike * Eli + Salt and pepper shakers + A set of animal urns + Shop wiring- lots of trouble and waiting on people
What are we watching / listening? * Bob + Big Gang Theory Clips + Lots of Car revival videos * Rebecca + Watching the finale of Wanda Vision! + Parks and Recreation + Listening to a new audiobook, The Last Sword Maker * Mike
Main Topic: Eli Polite * Woodworker for as long as he can remember * Skill saw since eight * Treehouse * Wood shop class in high school + Best grades, as a result his name and face is still hanging on the wall in his school * House burnt down * Went to a vocational school and went to a carpentry school * Built two houses and donated them * Worked as a carpenter, framer, cabinet maker * Got into countertops * Now as a profession, works on making granite counter tops * His wife bought him a harbor freight lathe * Sat on it for a year without doing much with it * Finally started getting into segmenting about four years ago * Got into AAW and other organizations related to woodturning * What he likes about segmenting is that it takes woodturning to the next level * Wanted to draw with his woodworking, but without paint, instead he is using wood and segmenting * People would tell him he cant do something because of [insert reason here], but he would go out to prove them wrong. * Keeps an eye on the woodworking and woodturning world * Doesn’t want to expose himself to too many things * Got a Garfield poster that influenced him a lot from childhood. * Can work with stone, metal, wood, glass * It is limiting when people tell you that there is only one way of doing things. * If you tell me I can’t do something, he’ll do what he needs to to safely accomplish what they’re telling him is impossible to do * Looking for the most basic way to do any task * Goal is to simplify so anyone can do a complicated task with proper simple instruction * Break down the steps into the bare minimum jobs to complete each task * Every component becomes its own project * What happens to the pieces that Eli makes + Some have sold as art + Some he has kept + Some have been sent off as part of a collaboration…. * Do you have jigs to create the compound angles to make the segments + Makes throwaway jigs that are used for one piece and thrown into the trash when done + Some others are fixed jigs to get one specific angle + Keeps notes on jigs for repeatability + Preferred material is corian or 1” MDF * Is there a piece that you’ve sold that you regret selling? + Nope, because he knows where * Ideas come from the most ridiculous places + Walking through a dollar store and seeing a pattern on a hand towel + Dodecahedron spheres inspired by lights he saw hanging in a house * Will have a class teaching jigs, planning, segmented finials, and pinwheel inlay at Marc Adams School of Woodworking in Indian at the end of August!!! * He sees himself following where the designs will take him. * New designs are coming, but with more advanced concepts and processes
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Dad Jokes * Bob + Why do Vampires seem sick? + There always coffin. + CG from CJ’s Hobbies + A good 50% of elevator music. + It’s Uplifting * Rebecca + I got arrested for illegally downloading the whole of Wikipedia - I told them I could explain everything * Mike * Guest + How does Moses make his coffee? - Hebrews it + How do you make a hankie dance? - Put a little boogie in it!