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   notDusty | Nov 26, 2004 09:49pm | #1

                      CHERRYJOHN ,

            I can relate , some days in my shop most everything I touch goes to heck , so to speak .Even simple things go haywire . Usually at that point I pick a corner or another unkempt area and do some clean up. I rarely screw up when doing shop clean up. My beginings came from restoration works and I did learn several ways to repair and save broken spindles , rungs and others lathe turnings . I guess it could be called the "inner game of woodworking" the Inner Game is a book originally printed towards the game of tennis . Golfer Ben Hogan wrote a book called Power Golf ,and  he talked about how on some days his fingers and hands just felt fat , and he said he did not do as well with the fat fingers and such . So maybe we need to check them out before we do any serious woodworking . Was this one of those times where you became a conversationalist by yourself in your shop ?

                    happy holidays                        dusty

    

                            

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   cherryjohn | Nov 27, 2004 01:14am | #2

   No, it started out overdrilling that stretcher tennon hole.  Then it went from bad to worse.  I came in from the shop, sat down, gave my wife some crap for daring to request that I brush off that sawdust before comming into the house....was generally in a foul mood for about an hour then when the dust settled ( and the saw dust was shook off) I gave it another go.  Guess what?  the piece came out about as good as I heve ever done!  Whats up with that anyway ???  I have been expecting this project to break in some unrepairable way ever since but so far so good.  Stay tuned .......the way this project is going I will surely mess up again.

    

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   notDusty | Nov 27, 2004 02:34am | #4

                     "Whats up with that "  you know I am convinced that just as it seems true that some pieces of wood need to be worked different than others , some simply don't want to be worked at all . Have you ever noticed this phenomena ?. It sounds as though your wife likes a clean house as mine does. I can't tell you how many times I've been scolded for not brushing all the sawdust off of me before entering the house . Somehow after blowing off usually with the air hose and walking about 150 feet up from the shop to the house, I still have sawdust on me , it's a miracle . Try not expecting a project to fail , but see it done the way you intend . Easier said then done .

                                     a very   dusty one

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   Dave45 | Nov 27, 2004 01:49am | #3

   Would this whole past week qualify as "one of those days"??  Last weekend, I finished all the wood working on a computer desk for my daughter and her fiance.  Darn thing is absolutely beautiful!!!   Birch with flat panels in the pedestal.   On Monday, we go pick out a stain (Minwax Red Oak) and when I stain it up on Tuesday it turns into a total POS.  The solid wood came out fine but the plywood parts just wouldn't stain right.

   I've used Minwax stains for years, but haven't used a deeply colored stain for a long time and i was fighting with it all the way.  I spent part of this morning messing with it and it looks like I'll be making a new top.  Tomorrow, I'll see what (if anything) I can do with the panels in the pedestal.

   I'm going to spend the next 2hrs and 12 minutes on the computer then have a serious drink.........maybe two.  Tomorrow will be a better day.............won't it??

   Thanks for listening - lol