Comments on: Yes, there is cheating at woodworking https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2013/01/30/yes-there-is-cheating-at-woodworking/ inside the woodshop Mon, 11 Feb 2013 03:47:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Rob https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2013/01/30/yes-there-is-cheating-at-woodworking/#comment-115821 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 03:47:45 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=2099#comment-115821 Kevin, I too wonder about that.

]]> By: Kevin https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2013/01/30/yes-there-is-cheating-at-woodworking/#comment-115814 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:39:55 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=2099#comment-115814 When I’m making a project , be it some woodwork for the house I am remodeling or a piece of furniture, I always wonder what its demise might be. I do a lot of hand tool work, spend hours fitting joints, measuring to the Nth degree so things fit perfectly. All the while thinking that someday it will just be torn apart or cast aside. So, on the subject of cheating, does it really matter in the end? Well, I don’t believe so, just as long as we feel good about it in the present!

]]> By: Rob https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2013/01/30/yes-there-is-cheating-at-woodworking/#comment-115764 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:47:04 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=2099#comment-115764 Thanks for the comment, Ron.
I was not suggesting that such “cheating” is at all widespread. On the contrary, I agree with your observations. I wrote about it as something for any craftsman to be aware of but, of course, to avoid.
Rob

]]> By: Ron https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2013/01/30/yes-there-is-cheating-at-woodworking/#comment-115748 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 20:26:39 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=2099#comment-115748 I agree that there may be some cheating in woodworking but it is very small. Most craftsmen that I know take pride in what they create and if it is not perfect they will re-do it until it is.

]]> By: On Cheating… | Mansfield Fine Furniture https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2013/01/30/yes-there-is-cheating-at-woodworking/#comment-115489 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:36:00 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=2099#comment-115489 […] A couple days post-drafting (yet pre-posting), and again, this topic popped up in a blog post, this time from just down the road from me from the shop of Rob Porcaro, a hugely talented […]

]]> By: Eric https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2013/01/30/yes-there-is-cheating-at-woodworking/#comment-115294 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:19:07 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=2099#comment-115294 I completely agree with you, but only partially with Matt. The process is still very much important to me, and I hope it always will be. If part of the process is not enjoyable, I find another way, even if it takes more (or less) time.

Now I can easily say that as a hobbyist. If you are a professional, well, I imagine there are some harder decisions you would need to make when it comes to methodology. But right now I don’t want to get a CNC machine to do all my carvings as it would take the joy out of the process. So I guess that’s my current definition of “cheating”.

-Eric

]]> By: Brian Eve https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2013/01/30/yes-there-is-cheating-at-woodworking/#comment-115279 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:55:58 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=2099#comment-115279 I disagree. I don’t think there’s cheating.

But, there are projects that go to the in-laws.

:o)

Brian

]]> By: Rob https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2013/01/30/yes-there-is-cheating-at-woodworking/#comment-115275 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:36:59 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=2099#comment-115275 Haha, I think I need diamond stones because of the hardness of my head.

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