Maybe this is the forum for all of us know-it-alls? Next time I give a smart-aleck answer is Gina going to relegate me to this obscure corner of Knots? I could sit in this corner with you other wiseguys until I got some real wisdom…
Who did you say the expert was???
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You mean Knots?
or "You"re The Expert", with the quotation marks instead of the apostrophe? Knots reduce the quality of lumber, so maybe we are the runts, the defects. Or maybe it's akin to the hub, where everything happens around it.
Wisdom
Just the other day I asked Queenmasteroftheuniversandbabbybunnytrainer :
" If the Greeks are so wise and Greece is the seat of our great civilization and knowledge then how did they get in so much trouble recently ?".
She said there is a difference between philosophy and interacting with the actual world. Once I stopped laughing I asked her to explain all that to me. She tried. I never was one for philosophy.
Any way I figgurd I would join you in the seat of handing out smart-aleck, harrumph, I mean wisdom and expert advice.
Experts
Maybe QM of U and BBT is the expert.
But I tend more towards the Taoist view - "Those who speak do not know, and those who know do not speak".
regards,
"Those who know do not speak"
WOOF, WOOF
Roc,
Gotta watch out for experts. You know about MENSA, the organization of people with high IQ scores. Have you heard about DENSA, the organization of people who do not have high IQ scores? They argue that the world has long been ruled by smart people. Now look at how they have screwed it up. Their conclusion is that it is now time to give the dummies a chance.
Mel
Who did you say the Expert was?
David, Old landscape irrigation humor has that an Expert is a high pressure drip.....
Those wise enough, know they don't want to be an expert..... Hence I hang out in the General Discussion or Cafe ;>)
Irrigation Irritation
Morgan,
I'll remember that for when I am working at the counter selling low-flow irrigation stuff.
I don't think David got that one, must be the American humour....
Whats the last sound a sliver makes before it hits the ground.... plllppppptttt.
missed that one
Yeah, you're right, that one flew past me. I guess I've been away too long...
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David, M post, was not to destroy any thing?
To show, any one can develop skills in life?
And Rise to the Toast, at the head of the Table.
Note: Delightful is for the French Wine.
I did click on your website? http://www.touchwood.co.il/?id=1&lang=eNice.
My studio was torched, 23/1/2007 by Arson? This was almost 4 years ago today?
Because of this chair.
Liability accepted by: The Insurance Company today? But I still have empty shell? No Yoke?
Sorry? Not a joking Matter.
http://www.thomaschippendalefurniture.com
Kind Regards
Mr Joseph Hemingway (PhD)
David,
It sounds akin to "We are the ones we've been waiting for."
Or as o. r. staff told the surgeon when he announced he was going to perform his own appendectomy, "Suture self."
Ray
Repy
The Forum is Entitled: Finewoodworking.com
Wise man
Regards
Dr Joseph Hemingway
Perhaps it means that you are just as good as the real experts. For instance, the real experts said that the Titanic was unsinkable. If they had asked me I would have said the same... "Yep. Looks watertight to me. Good to go."
Now tell me what does this mean: "We will be adding a spell check function to this tool bar going forward." ???
The Back ground of Skill
The Background of Skill.
For many centuries woodworkers in England have established and enlarged a reputation for skill. 'They began to acquire a mastery of their craft many generations before the Norman Conquest, and from a profound and enduring comprehension of the characteristics of timber. In a country with many large forests, the woodman, or.Wood-reeve, as a highly skilled judge of the merits of the raw material available for architecture and shipbuilding; while the carpenter and the joiner were the principal craftsmen, for nearly everything was built of wood, and the abundant forests of Britain provided such sturdy and lasting timber as oak and ash. Century after century, the woodworker's knowledge of his material deepened; he acquired a sympathetic understanding of its, limitations and possibilities; unlike European craftsmen, he never willingly forced It to perform highly decorative tasks that disguised or ignored its natural qualities. The influence of that ancient partnership with "the woodman remained. In period when the furniture craftsman has been allowed to solve problems In his own simple, direct way, and to make the best use of the materials that grew in the English countryside was not only oak and ash, but yew, elm, beech, and such fruit woods as cherry and apple-he has produced tables and chairs and chests that reflect the pride and pleasure he took in his work, and the serene satisfaction of living fully that such work provided Consequently the furniture of those happy and far-oft' times when the craftsman was left to himself, has a rich and unmistakable humanism; Not the scholarly humanism of the accomplished designer, dedicated to the service of classical taste; not the self-conscious rusticity imposed by some passing fashion; but an honest and consistent acknowledgment of the needs of good living and common sense. Unfortunately the furniture-makers have seldom been left to their own skilled ways. Fashions have been imposed on them from abroad; modish Freaks of taste have battened on their skill; 'wealth has outrun education, and patrons have insisted on vulgar profusion, and this latter disaster has happened twice during the last three hundred and fifty years-at the end of Elizabeth's reign and throughout the Victorian period', "after the late seventeenth century, the town craftsmen gave up the struggle for independence: there after they were the humble and obedient servants of fashion, their skill directed by designers who, frequently lacking an intimated knowledge of materials, used craftsmen early as interpreters of ideas that were "born and bred on the drawing board. Very often these master designers were architects, like William Kent, or had started life as craftsmen, like Thomas Chippendale.
Note: My reply today is for one reason? Thomas Chippendale's name is above? In his 1754 Director, he makes this statement? He carved several sets of the Ribban- back chair? Sadly untrue? (My Studio fire 23/1/2007)
The following year, 1755, Thomas Affieck immigrated to America? As part of the family. He is only a young man.
When the family is settled, now residing in Pennsylvania? He took the opportunity to Scoff (2 Fingers Stile) at: Thomas Chippendale back in England, (Very True)
By designing a chair? We all know today as a Ladder-back chair? But named it a Thomas Chippendale Ribban-back Chair,. Please read attachment.
Dr Joseph Hemingway
knots ---what does it mean
A knot in the woods I use, well they generally run near to 90 degrees to the majority of the wood grain in a tree, , generally harder and surriounded by grain that flows around it, in concentric ovals, aand if you chose to follow the axial lenght of the knot, to the extremity of the branch, well depending on species, you might find nuts....
I think there's other analogies to draw upon....such as knots are harder to finish, crack easily, and if of softwood, may bleed.
Eric in Calgary
Yep that about covers it.
Hi Eric,
Haven't seen you around here for a while. Glad to hear from you.
what does knot mean
Actually it's quite simple. The great minds that developed this mess really meant to say (spell) Nuts; just got things messed up, as you can possibly agree, seeing the ways things are going here!
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