What’s your woodworking resolution for 2007?
- Improve my workshop
- Spend more time woodworking
- Buy more woodworking tools
- Take a woodworking class
- Other (please post your resolution)
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Other...
Improve skills by working on more complicated designs.
Other - find a local woodworkers club to find some like minded sawdust makers.
Bob
Make more money.
Jeff
as a full time cabinet maker i am going to try and find the desire to get my small shop as opposed to beiing in a shop with 10 other guys.
I voted, spend more time woodworking; I'm way too lazy, and could at least double my output.
Rob Millard
After looking at the photos of your work, Rob, I would say that what you need to cure "laziness" is a challenge, LOL
I also vote for More Time Woodworking, Lord willing. My wife has given me a couple of "commissions" for our children :)
Monte
Other...
To make more money.
John
More time in the shop, less time online.
Other: All of the above.
Make more money at my day job so I can buy more tools and more wood.
I hope to improve my finishing skills, as well as general wood woking skills.
I voted to spend more time woodworking.
When I'm dead my woodworking will live on. I know it's cynical but what can I do when it's the truth.
I voted "other" because my woodworking resolution is to somehow stop cutting on the wrong side of the mark, or the reverse of the angle I want, or any of a hundred mistakes I keep making over, and over, and over, and over, and over ...
River,
Don't look at it as mistakes......I call the "Design Opportunities" in my shop!!!
Jeff
continue learning and improving, especially my finishing. My workshop is OK (always improving); no more free time that I can spare (real work and family are priorities, although woodworking is a close third); not interested in a course (like to teach myself).
I voted for the first two on the pole.
My resolution is to try to figure out why most people will not pay a fair price for hand crafted items. In addition, I resolve to find some people or market that will pay a fair price for my work.
Spend more time making stuff, less time thinking about making stuff. Try to keep the shop a little neater.
Other,
Complete the shop I am building behind the small house we purchased this year along with 5 acres. Then get my tools out of storage and get back to making dust and furniture.
Bruce
You make furniture while setting the dust free? I will have to try that sometime I just seam to make dust.
Doug Meyer
For 2007...
take time off from building Kitchens & Baths an start building all the cabinets i am always promising my wife, everything i am today i owe to her an this past year she was diagnosed with M S, so now it is pay-back time :-)=
I hope everyone had a merry x-mas an i wish everyone the best of a New Year!!!!
1. Take a breather and clean the shop...
2. Finish up the bit projects that have been hanging around the shop too long.
3. Broaden my finishing skills.
4. Finally build something for me!
other,
to spend more time in the shop with my son teaching himm all I can.
Paul
To stop giving away so much of my time--bill for more hours. And to push my designs toward more challenging techniques
Peter
www.jpswoodworking.com
Other - Finish the kitchen I started in 2006!
Less tool/machinery purchases, more tool/machinery use!
I want to make more Furniture and I want to repair and restore antique wood furniture.
I voted to improve my workshop. I love working with wood, and have done so for many years - on and off. But with my husband's love for travel, I had to leave behind a great deal of tools over the years. Unfortunately, my husband passed away just over a year ago, and I recently bought a home. Now I have a great area to set up shop, and am very excited about it. I have so many plans in my head, and so many ideas that I just need to get all my current furniture in, and then I can start adding to my shop, and making some unique furniture again, as well as add some personalized designs in my home. When I go to the lumber yard, or to a home improvement store, I can spend hours just looking at all the tools and different types of wood, thinking of all I can do with them as I make each new purchase.
Clean the DUST! JEFFYSAN
The Year of the Handcut Dovetail.
-C
To repair and refurbish my Grandfather's tools he was a shipwright & cabnetmaker.
I need to improve my shop layout to gain more efficiency and get my jobs out of the shop to start on a new one. I could also add make more money, win the lottery to buy a CNC router and so on...
Marc
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