It is currently 28 Mar 2024, 16:05
Custard wrote:Congratulations on a very tidy job!
sunnybob wrote:Adrian, I have been told before to sign my boxes, but just cant bring myself to do it.
Partly because 80% of them have been snaffled by immediate family!
But I have a serious helping of self doubt, because after all, It's only a hobby and there's nothing "important" about my work (it would certainly never be mentioned in a house sale brochure)
I joke about most things, and dont take much seriously any more, but I really do have a tablespoon full of ADD in my nature, hence my resistance to long books and instruction manuals. To me its all about solving the problem in my head, and I can actually get slightly anal about "solving the problem", you can ask my missuss about that, but then when I have, and it comes to 3 hours of polishing and waxing....... I'm away with the fairies.
But praise from custard..... oh boy......Thats the pinnacle that wont be beat, because 6 years ago when I started woodworking and said I was not going to use hand planes he "politely" suggested I was not cut out for woodworking and should seek another hobby.
Dont get that wrong, he has always been the perfect advisor and has sent me "care packages " of exotic woods. (the handle of my "thats not a knife cutlass" is heat treated rippled sycamore from him).
But if I can have a branding iron that says "approved by custard", I just might do it.
sunnybob wrote:Steady man, people dont often talk about my Bona's.
The next year or two will determine if my table stays stuck together or not
Following the learning curve theme, I've realised I might have to refinish it with something more durable than wax, its used several times a day and I think it might get marked quite easily.
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