Tool Acquisition

[Mad Irish Jack]

I read several articles farther down this topic area, and they reminded me of my windfall. About twenty years ago (and maybe a little longer) as I waited for some Novocian to take affect, I made small talk with my dentist who'd seen some newspaper photos of myself and my club members doing the PC Primitive things we do. He wanted to know where I get my "stuff". I told him I try to make everything I can. I told him I try to fashion some tools for special needs and that I also use a Dremel tool. He told me that's the company he gets his tooth drill and shaping bits from and they basically are the same as I use but a better grade steel with carbide and diamond tips. He said the sales rep gives him all nature of other supplies that he has in a box in a closet because he had no use for them. He told me I could have it all if I wanted them "HE!! Yeah." I said. And, I asked if there was a place where I could acquire things like the pick and scraping tools he uses for my teeth. He said dentists usually give them to an agency that sends them over seas and the get used there. BUT, he had some older ones that he hadn't sent out yet and that I could have them, too. So before I left that day I got collets; sanding discs; polishing pads of all shapes and sizes; polishing compounds & rouges. I felt like I hit the mother load, gouges; scrapers; picks and other stuff he was glad to part with. And HE was telling Me, that I was doing him a huge favor.
I knew it was the other way around. So, on my next visit, to thank him, I presented him a small oval seasoning horn but scrimmed with "Tooth Cleaning Poeder" and small tooth branch (Made from a green sugar maple branch with the end smashed to fibers) to be used as a toothbrush. He had them on his desk for several years but has taken them to his home office.
So, next visit to your mouth pain monger :cursing:, just flat out ask him or question him about those tools. You just might aquire some new impliments. :wink:

 

[lonehunter]

Ya might as well leave his office with something. cuz, ya aint leaving with any money! :wink: :thumbsup:

 

[Mad Irish Jack]

Wow! :applause: I sparked some positive thought. :hmm: My job is done. Now I have to go to work to earn more dental bill payment money. :rotf:

 

[lonehunter]

:rotf: :rotf: :thumbsup:

 

[MSW]

well, i asked the dentist what was so very expensive about the extraction, and he looked at me and said, "Not a thing, I can leave it right there if you want."

do i begrudge the dentist that he has a nicer car than i, or that he lives in a bigger house? not a bit- it's his money to spend as he sees fit (that which the government doesn't confiscate from him, that is) and if he busted his ass to acquire skills which i don't possess, then more power to him.

That's the rant for today!
Unless i come up with a better, more robust rant, in which case the current rant du jour will be updated.