Ian Gillis
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Hi
I like to take a job from drawings to finished project. That's what I did when I first started this hobby eons ago. My focus was on making gifts for the most part. And that's how it worked during the years as an employee in cabinet shops.
Recently I'm concentrating on upgrading my shop and my handtool skills, and I'm taking things on as they occur to me. Example; I built a plywood cabinet to house some tools under my workbench. I was going to use lock-rabbet joints for the drawer boxes -- quick and easy tablesaw work.
Then I thought, why not dovetail them by hand? I put the cabinet project aside and started practising dovetails for the first time in a long time. This lead to a foray into sharpening fine saws, and now I'm actually making my own dovetail saw from scratch (expect to see this among the scrap pile projects).
I'm allowing myself to be very process oriented at this time, rather than being project oriented as I usually am. I'm enjoying the heck out of it and finding it totally absorbing.
The drawers will get built eventually, and they'll be better for the delay. And I'll have improved my knowledge and skills during the process.
And now I'm gonna go downstairs and get back at it
I like to take a job from drawings to finished project. That's what I did when I first started this hobby eons ago. My focus was on making gifts for the most part. And that's how it worked during the years as an employee in cabinet shops.
Recently I'm concentrating on upgrading my shop and my handtool skills, and I'm taking things on as they occur to me. Example; I built a plywood cabinet to house some tools under my workbench. I was going to use lock-rabbet joints for the drawer boxes -- quick and easy tablesaw work.
Then I thought, why not dovetail them by hand? I put the cabinet project aside and started practising dovetails for the first time in a long time. This lead to a foray into sharpening fine saws, and now I'm actually making my own dovetail saw from scratch (expect to see this among the scrap pile projects).
I'm allowing myself to be very process oriented at this time, rather than being project oriented as I usually am. I'm enjoying the heck out of it and finding it totally absorbing.
The drawers will get built eventually, and they'll be better for the delay. And I'll have improved my knowledge and skills during the process.
And now I'm gonna go downstairs and get back at it
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