Comments on: #*@&! mistakes http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2009/02/12/mistakes/ inside the woodshop Wed, 16 May 2012 14:51:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rob http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2009/02/12/mistakes/#comment-565 Rob Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:56:17 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=291#comment-565 AAAndrew, Thanks. What's that saying? Success is built on experience and experience is built on failure. Rob AAAndrew,

Thanks.

What’s that saying? Success is built on experience and experience is built on failure.

Rob

]]> By: AAAndrew http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2009/02/12/mistakes/#comment-560 AAAndrew Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:03:23 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=291#comment-560 I'm with you completely on this post. I fall into that gap between intention and execution at least once on every project. Part of it is the sporadic nature of my shop time. It takes time to get back into the rhythm and flow. Part is inexperience, and part is fatigue. It's easy, just as you said, to think you can get just one more thing done at the end of a long day when you're tools are not quite sharp and you're just that much too tired so you're not thinking well. And sometimes it's just a failed plan. I made a TV table for my first project. It has a shelf below the top and I did the typical over-engineering we do on our early work. I glued up the sides, then glued up the skirt and rails across the front and back on which the shelf would rest. When I went to put the shelf in, there was no physical way to fit it through the openings. I would never have been able to see this in planning. I had to build it first to discover it. I ended up taking this as a "design challenge" and figured out how to make it work. http://incidentalwoodworker.blogspot.com/2009/01/short-history-of-my-woodworking.html And that, in the end is what it's all about. We plan and we draw, but when it comes to it, we have to work with real materials and that requires that we think and adapt. Good thing that's what humans are pretty good at. Great post. I enjoy your blog and this kind of writing is why. AAAndrew I’m with you completely on this post. I fall into that gap between intention and execution at least once on every project. Part of it is the sporadic nature of my shop time. It takes time to get back into the rhythm and flow. Part is inexperience, and part is fatigue. It’s easy, just as you said, to think you can get just one more thing done at the end of a long day when you’re tools are not quite sharp and you’re just that much too tired so you’re not thinking well.

And sometimes it’s just a failed plan. I made a TV table for my first project. It has a shelf below the top and I did the typical over-engineering we do on our early work. I glued up the sides, then glued up the skirt and rails across the front and back on which the shelf would rest. When I went to put the shelf in, there was no physical way to fit it through the openings. I would never have been able to see this in planning. I had to build it first to discover it. I ended up taking this as a “design challenge” and figured out how to make it work. http://incidentalwoodworker.blogspot.com/2009/01/short-history-of-my-woodworking.html

And that, in the end is what it’s all about. We plan and we draw, but when it comes to it, we have to work with real materials and that requires that we think and adapt. Good thing that’s what humans are pretty good at.

Great post. I enjoy your blog and this kind of writing is why.

AAAndrew

]]> By: Rob http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2009/02/12/mistakes/#comment-528 Rob Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:15:25 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=291#comment-528 Bob, Thanks for the comment. Yea, there are countless ways to slip down that slippery slope. Rob Bob,

Thanks for the comment. Yea, there are countless ways to slip down that slippery slope.

Rob

]]> By: Bob Strawn http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2009/02/12/mistakes/#comment-526 Bob Strawn Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:49:32 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=291#comment-526 I obsessively sharpen, so the dullness error rarely catches me. A different type of creeping error catches me regularly. When I get careless and forget to return to the original corner or plane for referencing. Each error builds on each error, until it starts to take real work to figure out how to fit it all together. Amazing how quickly and badly I can mess up angles when I am careless. Bob I obsessively sharpen, so the dullness error rarely catches me. A different type of creeping error catches me regularly. When I get careless and forget to return to the original corner or plane for referencing. Each error builds on each error, until it starts to take real work to figure out how to fit it all together.

Amazing how quickly and badly I can mess up angles when I am careless.

Bob

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