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After cutting my 86th carcase dovetail in two days I was pretty much on auto-pilot and oblivious to external stimuli.
How
oblivious? Apparently I busted a knuckle and left this nice smear on my
Moxon double-screw vise and didn’t notice it until this morning.
I’m a
big fan of Japanese ink painting, especially those in the Zen tradition.
I’ve actually tried my hand at it a few times.
So far, this is my best effort.
— Christopher Schwarz
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Without bleeding hands, you are not working. Let people know you have been working, and if it’s on a project that you intend to sell, charge more. Claim pain and suffering and all that nonsense. Paul
You may have been in auto-pilot during this but I prefer to imagine you frothing at the mouth, in a Full Metal Jacket sort of intense craze… because that would be completely normal. I guess I just want to believe there are others out there like me (insane and express passion by bloodletting).
My dad alway said that no project is truely successful unless you bleed on it at least once. Seems to be a philosophy that Sir Roy follows as well. lol. Bart
Suck it up dude and keep chopping.
I got nothin’. Does look pretty cool though. 🙂
Maybe that’s the answer to all those tools that go walkabout. Bleed on them all a bit and no one will want to touch them.
Mark,
That’s not a tenon. That’s the vise:
http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/workbenches/declaring-victory-with-the-double-screw-vise
I am reminded of Dogbert’s Brown Ring of Quality.
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absent minded trance
persimmon hangs on the branch
now knuckle busted
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I had a little job cutting up stips of ply. I had to make 200 cuts to get the pieces I needed. Real simple, just push the sheet past the blade 200 times.
I too was on autopilot………
…….which will be why I ended up standing directly behind the blade.
Well; I dont have any pictures, but let me tell you, when a piece of ply is projected from the blade towards your belly at 100mph, the resulting mess soon snaps you out of autopilot and causes you to re-gain focus, real quick.
Nice title for the post. It’s eccentric and pretentious….. sorta reminded me of the furniture naming contest a while back. I am laughing here.
Ahh…that’s it. I mistook the deadman for the bench leg. I know SYP shrinks but that much on the bench top would be impressive.
Actually, I think Mark is referring to the shoulder on the dead-man.
Just curious. What is that gap between the tenon shoulder on your bench and the bench top?