Thread: Lipshaw, SAD and a little Dementia....

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

He has to do his stopping laying down. Needs all his energy to count his razors like Scrooge counted his money.

Hey! Why do what you can standing-up when you can do it sitting?

Now, laid-down stropping sounds interesting!

Lazy me!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Hey! Why do what you can standing-up when you can do it sitting?

Now, laid-down stropping sounds interesting!

Lazy me!

No kidding, back in the '70s I was on a warehouse job welding pads on bar joists. Everyone that welds pads on joists sits on the I-beam and welds a pad, hops over to the next. The foreman came up to me and said, "Anything you can do sitting down you can do better standing up." Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I wasn't long for that job. Anyway, I give you my blessing Tom, if you think it is better sitting down than go for it.

Buddy of mine who owns a tooling, stamping and engineering company, back in the 70's, on some big iron, way up in the sky, provided a lot of the steel for the CN Tower....I'll take sitting down thank-you!!!

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

No kidding, back in the '70s I was on a warehouse job welding pads on bar joists. Everyone that welds pads on joists sits on the I-beam and welds a pad, hops over to the next. The foreman came up to me and said, "Anything you can do sitting down you can do better standing up." Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I wasn't long for that job. Anyway, I give you my blessing Tom, if you think it is better sitting down than go for it.

Well, Jimmy, TBH, Who actually hones while standing-up? Sit-down stropping is a privilege. Not a right!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Well, Jimmy, TBH, Who actually hones while standing-up? Sit-down stropping is a privilege. Not a right!

Well, I do! And it makes it easier to use running water at the sink. I teach new folks while we are sitting down.

~Richard

never saw these strops before they look massive

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Well, Jimmy, TBH, Who actually hones while standing-up? Sit-down stropping is a privilege. Not a right!

Originally Posted by Geezer

Well, I do! And it makes it easier to use running water at the sink. I teach new folks while we are sitting down.

~Richard

+1 I began honing standing up almost immediately after I started. I just couldn't get the swing sitting down. I also hone in front of the kitchen sink, lapping plate in the sink at the ready. I'm just more comfortable that way, besides, guy told me years ago, "Anything you can do sitting down, you can do better standing up."

Those stand up guy's are not always right, try hanging upside down and welding pipe, Inside.

In the other camp, a good soldier never stands when he can sit and never sit when you can lay down. That saved energy saved my life Twice.

Originally Posted by FAL

Those stand up guy's are not always right, try hanging upside down and welding pipe, Inside.

In the other camp, a good soldier never stands when he can sit and never sit when you can lay down. That saved energy saved my life Twice.

One of my favorite sayings along those lines, can't remember where I read it, but I believe it is a military saying which is brilliant, and applies in my area of work, "Two is one, and one is none."