Sindt: It's him!

Whistle
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The other day,I happened to find these web sites. :astonished:

http://data.ldeo.columbia.edu/test/dale-sandbox/gallery/InstrumentLab/DSC00006

http://data.ldeo.columbia.edu/test/dale-sandbox/gallery/InstrumentLab/InstrumentLab

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So thatā€™s why the long waiting listā€¦itā€™s those coffee breaks.

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Wow. Great find. He tends to be a bit elusive.

Dale

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Yeah thatā€™s him-Heā€™s the MAN o.k.!

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Yikes - is he NEKKID?!?!?! :open_mouth:

Is THAT the trick to great whistle smithing??

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A topless Sindt picture! :boggle:

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To each his own, but I always thought that nudity, semi-nudity, and power tools were just a bad combination.

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I dunno. I was fully clothed when I stuck the tip of the middle finger of my left hand into the table saw. (Took nine months before I could even think of pressing a guitar string with that finger.)

Which reminds me. The guy at the pharmacy in the Army hospital who handed me my various medications after the gaping wound had been bound told me the following story:

Seems his father ran a cabinet shop. One of the workers cut off a finger in the bandsaw. Some time later, a fellow came by from the insurance company to find out how it had happened. The victim stood at the bandsaw and said, ā€œI turned on the saw, and I wentā€¦ā€ ā€“ and cut off the next finger over.

I wonder if the insurance company decided to add an intelligence test to its reqirements.

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I smashed a finger once by this sequence of intelligent behavior.

  1. Open the bathroom door of a hotel to ask my wife, who was in the shower, a question.

  2. Put my hand on the door frame.

  3. Allow my thumb to slip in between the door and the door frame, near the hinge.

  4. Close the door quickly, WITHOUT REMOVING MY HAND.

When my thumb was smashed, it felt like an electric shock, followed by a few seconds of no pain but a fainting sensation.

Then the pain, which came in overwhelming waves.

Then the end of the fainting sensation due to actually fainting.

Then being aroused from the faint by the pain.

Then fainting a 2nd time.

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Nahā€¦ itā€™s nudity, semi-nudity, and frying bacon that are a bad combination! :astonished:
I often work shirtless and wearing shorts in my shop because thereā€™s no air conditioning, so John was being even safer than me! :stuck_out_tongue:

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Hiro.

I admire your respect and consistant admiration of John Sindt.

(could I ask, without hijacking this thread). I ordered 4 - 5 of his whistles about 10 months agoā€¦ Maybe close to a year now, not sure. Iā€™ve send 2 or three emails over the last several months, none returned or replied too. The lady was very friendly and coutrteous when I first placed the order, and accomodated a change or two. I knew the wait was 9 or 10 months. I moved 7 months ago, same city. I would like to get in solid contact now that the normal wait time is over. Could you suggest something. Thx!

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Do you mean he wasnā€™t wearing shorts? :astonished:

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In a lot of situations, clothing is a hazard around machinery, as is long hair. Many spinning machine parts can grab fabric or hair and pull the operator into the machinery. Although some people wear gloves when operating power tools, I avoid them unless itā€™s so cold thereā€™s danger of frostbite. And I wear short sleeves, or long sleeves with close fitting cuffs. If Iā€™m wearing a sweater, I push the sleeves up away from my wrists when Iā€™m using the table saw so thereā€™s no loose fabric anywhere near the blade.

Best wishes,
Jerry

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Jerry, reading about blades and bare wrists in the same sentence gives me the shivers.

I can see why you wouldnā€™t want anything hanging around that might be caught in the spinning machinery.

Tight speedos, then! and goggles. Youā€™ll look like a swimmer! :smiley:

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Cloth offers no protection from sawblades and the like. Fabric puffing out from wrists and forearms, draping near spinning machine parts give me the willies much worse than bare hands and arms the same distance from the blades.

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I once heard a story about a woman who was at a jewlers shop trying on old rings. She found one she liked and before the jewler could stop her, walked over to the floor mounted buffing wheel, turned the motor on and (with ring on finger) pressed the ring onto the spinning wheel. It grabbed the ring and pulled her finger off.

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Oh, yeah.

I forgot. Rings, bracelets and wristwatches can be dangerous around machinery, too.

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Itā€™s very sad when something like this happens.

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Parcour,I cant suggest more than what you would naturally do to solve your problem:calling up Ann directly, making sure if your whistles were not sent to your old address.

And at any rate,I would let sellers know my unchangeable address when placing an order or I would have to be ready for a lot of troublesā€¦ :confused:

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Itā€™s also very sad when something like this happens.