Laundry Room The Pros and the Posers
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It is great that you are so honest as most wouldn't show the shots you are.
What you will learn with any fabrication is that it is easier to stop, remove the problem and start over vs trying to redo it. In the amount of time you spend hiding or jury rigging something it would be easier and a better job to take a deep breathe and make a new one correctly. The learning process will be invaluable for future projects.
I think like most novice fabricators you rush to get to the final product. Patience is key. Spend a few extra days and don't buy paint or finishing products until you are ready. No temptation to rush.
I would choose one error a day and just take it off and fix it. Nothing is ever perfect. Craftsmanship takes time and thought. There is nobody who does woodworking that doesn't have a pile of redone projects.
What you will learn with any fabrication is that it is easier to stop, remove the problem and start over vs trying to redo it. In the amount of time you spend hiding or jury rigging something it would be easier and a better job to take a deep breathe and make a new one correctly. The learning process will be invaluable for future projects.
I think like most novice fabricators you rush to get to the final product. Patience is key. Spend a few extra days and don't buy paint or finishing products until you are ready. No temptation to rush.
I would choose one error a day and just take it off and fix it. Nothing is ever perfect. Craftsmanship takes time and thought. There is nobody who does woodworking that doesn't have a pile of redone projects.
I read your first entry. I hope you don't feel embarrassed that i was chuckling all the way thru. I have sent posts onto the FOG several times telling of some of my own blunders of my own past. You have actually done a good job and you have reminded me of some of my own foopahs of the past. A very good friend and mentor who had influence to some of my earliest ventures used to tell me that "A good mechanic (meaning Craftsman) is someone who can explain his way out of any mistake he makes." You have done a good job of working around and correcting a few misttoks. your wife is happy and you are satisfied.
I am pretty sure you have filed away each and every mistook you have made where it is available in the book that counts ... in your head.
I think I have told this on the FOG somewhere in the past, but here goes for one more time. I was studying animal husbandry and crop management when i went to college. In my freshman year, one of my elective courses was butchering. about the very first animal we put to sleep and prepared for the butcher shop to table cuts was a sheep. I had had experience on the farm in butchering steers, but never a sheep. Skinning a steer, or a deer, or most any other common animal for market is fairly easy. you make a few cuts and get hold of the hide and basically pull down. A little assistance from skinning knife, but it is a straight forward job. My buddy and i were the first ones in the class to take on a sheep carcase.
We both listened as the professor explained how to pull down on the skin at the same time as we pushed up with our knuckles between the hide and the body membrane. Whatever we did, we did not, evidently do it exactly as we were told. We ended up with big glops of fat hanging out everywhere we had made the least little tear in the membrane. It sure did not look very marketable when we were finished. While the rest of the class were working their carcases with a good deal more success than we had had, the professor came to us and told us he taught an evening adult class two nite a week. Would we mind if he took our carcase to the class. He explained that he wanted to use to show his class what could happen when one does the job wrong. We both laughed and said to go ahead. If he wanted us to go along to show them how we did it, we would be glad to help out.
My buddy and I were the first to volunteer to try every thing new that came along. We really learned a lot from our mistaks and got some laughs along the way. the rest of the class was laughing at us but we were laughing at ourselves.
About your project, i especially enjoyed where you showed you had left of the lower doors because you and your wife are tall and old and you can see into the cabinet better. A great idea. I have sometimes suggested to my wife that we remove lower cabinet doors in out own kitchen cabinets. We are 39 and 38 (we have both been that age a whole lot longer that we were not) and short. It can still be a long way to bend down just to see into the cabinets, let alone get something out.
I am looking forward to your next projects.
Tinker
I am pretty sure you have filed away each and every mistook you have made where it is available in the book that counts ... in your head.
I think I have told this on the FOG somewhere in the past, but here goes for one more time. I was studying animal husbandry and crop management when i went to college. In my freshman year, one of my elective courses was butchering. about the very first animal we put to sleep and prepared for the butcher shop to table cuts was a sheep. I had had experience on the farm in butchering steers, but never a sheep. Skinning a steer, or a deer, or most any other common animal for market is fairly easy. you make a few cuts and get hold of the hide and basically pull down. A little assistance from skinning knife, but it is a straight forward job. My buddy and i were the first ones in the class to take on a sheep carcase.
We both listened as the professor explained how to pull down on the skin at the same time as we pushed up with our knuckles between the hide and the body membrane. Whatever we did, we did not, evidently do it exactly as we were told. We ended up with big glops of fat hanging out everywhere we had made the least little tear in the membrane. It sure did not look very marketable when we were finished. While the rest of the class were working their carcases with a good deal more success than we had had, the professor came to us and told us he taught an evening adult class two nite a week. Would we mind if he took our carcase to the class. He explained that he wanted to use to show his class what could happen when one does the job wrong. We both laughed and said to go ahead. If he wanted us to go along to show them how we did it, we would be glad to help out.
My buddy and I were the first to volunteer to try every thing new that came along. We really learned a lot from our mistaks and got some laughs along the way. the rest of the class was laughing at us but we were laughing at ourselves.
About your project, i especially enjoyed where you showed you had left of the lower doors because you and your wife are tall and old and you can see into the cabinet better. A great idea. I have sometimes suggested to my wife that we remove lower cabinet doors in out own kitchen cabinets. We are 39 and 38 (we have both been that age a whole lot longer that we were not) and short. It can still be a long way to bend down just to see into the cabinets, let alone get something out.
I am looking forward to your next projects.
Tinker
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You need to meet a guy who goes by the name of POTO on various Festool Forums. You two share an incredible ability of pointing out your mistakes..... [poke]
Seriously though, nice work and I'm sure you and your wife will love all of it since you worked so hard through each setback of the projects.
Seriously though, nice work and I'm sure you and your wife will love all of it since you worked so hard through each setback of the projects.
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leakyroof said:
roofie, thanks for the compliment. You got me thinking (smell the wood burning)..... there should be a forum category called "learning from mistakes". I posted the photos in the hope that I can save others a "Well Duh" moment.
For example the counter top photos. Show novices and remind mid-skill folks that just because that "arf arf" big dog router can hog out material you should make multiple passes. A good visual reminder showing $10 of rosewood blown out. And, "well duh", you need to plan the placement of your dominos if you are going to cut out material. I hope those images stick in the readers mind.
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