A message from chat room regular, MuddlerMike:
What started out as typical stupid banter among the day chat room crew has turned into a long standing inside joke. One afternoon back in April, we experienced a pleasant chat room visit from a friendly Bosnian woodworker. In an effort to boost Marc’s ego and help him appreciate his world wide appeal, a few of us twisted sorts conspired to log in to the following Wednesday Chat Night as imposter international viewers. Being the upstanding citizens we are, we never went through with the joke, but it did give rise to my alter ego Chechu, the woodworking Sherpa from Nepal.
For those who don’t know Chechu, he is a proud owner of a fine Nepalese woodworking yak. Woodworking yaks are special compared to typical yaks. They are the “shopsmith” of yaks, serving many purposes in any Nepalese wood shop. Here’s a top 10 list of Chechu’s yak uses in his own words:
Yak transport stationary tool easily
Yak make methane to power shop
Yak generate lots of heat to warm shop
Yak tail make great strop for sharpening
Yak horn make great slip stone to sharpen gouges
Yak wool better than steel wool
Yak tongue make great tack cloth
Yak hoof powder make great buffing compound
Yak eat wood scraps and make round MDF pieces for jigs
Yak make great dust collector yaks collect dust from EVERYTHING!
Chechu feels Marc’s site and videos are indispensable. So, to honor the Wood Whisperer, he has shaved the woodwhisperer logo into his prized woodworking yak’s hair. We have obtained a picture of the now famous Woodwhisperer Yak all the way from Nepal (see attached pic) and are honoring it with yak T-shirts and yak mugs.
I must mention that Chechu and the yak sprouted from my warped little psyche and the over embellishing from the day chat crew, but specific nods go to Jon_WI who came up with the Yak Tools logo, and LordLQQK who offered up at least 50% of the yak uses ideas, was the talent behind the Yak picture, and the technical advisor to help me with setting up the Cafepress shop graphics. I must also mention that the price for the shirts and mugs are at cost. I wanted no profit from the sale personally, and Marc felt the same. What you see is what you get!! I hope you enjoy them. To order a shirt or mug, head over to our Yak Store.
Muddlermike Marzullo
7 Responses to “The Wood Whisperer Yak?!?!?!”
I absolutely do not know these people, but they clearly need help.
I want a Yak T. So Mike, does your Yak T Yak talk back? Sorry, I can’t help my adolescence.
This completely threw me. When I saw the title, I thought it was some funny stuff about Marc’s fondness for talk — as in “yakity, yak, don’t talk back,” to quote and line from a song of yesteryear by the Coasters.
So once again, I was surprised by TWW and his goofy fellow inmates.
Thanks for the humor, Muddler, et al. :-)
Vic, yak talk to Chechu in many ways. Chechu make special bond with yak – especially long hair yak. very sexy…
for some reason the link didn’t make it in the blog entry. I’ll mention it to Marc but here it is:
http://www.cafepress.com/muddlermike
so if you’re interested, please feel free to order a t-shirt or mug. The link is also listed in a post of the same info in The Woodwhisperer Marketplace Forum. It’s all in good fun!
Sorry about that. The link was up there but I forgot to put in http, so it was going to a dead page. Should be working now. Peace out!
Thanks Mike,
I got two of the T’s and each mug. I will treasure them always!!!
I know there is nothing like the love between a boy and his Yak!
Especially Chechu and his lovely long hair Yak.
Being part of the daytime crew, I must admit, you never know where the chat will go during the day. It’s definately better than work. If you have never been on during the day, I would recommend you stop by and see! Fasten your seatbelt if you do. Oh ya, one topic we do not talk about is Craftsman tools!
Jeff