View Poll Results: What do you do with your stuff-ups?

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  • Does not apply. I never make mistakes.

    5 8.62%

  • There's no difference between my stuff-ups and my perfect jobs.

    34 58.62%

  • Give them to my friends.

    3 5.17%

  • Run them through the bandsaw.

    16 27.59%
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  1. 28th August 2006, 11:50 AM #31
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    Quote Originally Posted by Doughboy
    I was once told the difference between a good chef and a great chef is one who can make mistakes so they are not noticable. After 21 years cooking I have to agree....

    Pete
    I have a book by a famous French chef (name eludes me at the moment but he is long gone) who quoted a stuff up on a luxury liner, the fried chicken was overcooked, sacre bleu, it is now presented for lunch as 'Chicken American'.
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  2. 28th August 2006, 09:39 PM #32
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    Things happen for a reason,for every action there's a reaction so if there's a stuff up it might become a new design or new project..never wasted ...rather a learning course one can only hope

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  3. 30th August 2006, 11:39 PM #33
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    The Code.... section 7.3
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  4. 31st August 2006, 07:00 AM #34
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    I say why limit yourself to only one stuff-up per project? I try to have two or three good ones by the end of the build, usually topping it off by stuffing up the finish somehow. That's why most of my projects are up against a wall and not out in the middle of the room.
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  5. 31st August 2006, 11:49 PM #35
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    I am currently working on a stuff-up the in the end it will be a unit for my home theater system!... If not a really weird looking bookcase!....:eek:
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  6. 27th September 2006, 10:16 PM #36
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    a stuff up is an opportunity for innovation - there are no mistakes, only opportunities for innovation!
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  7. 27th September 2006, 10:37 PM #37
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    It used to be said:
    1. Doctors buried their mistakes;
    2. Lawyers were sued by their mistakes; and
    3. Architects grow ivy over theirs.
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  8. 28th September 2006, 08:33 PM #38
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    Quote Originally Posted by sea dragon View Post
    It used to be said:
    1. Doctors buried their mistakes;
    2. Lawyers were sued by their mistakes; and
    3. Architects grow ivy over theirs.
    Yes, and woodworkers turn theirs into kindling and sawdust.
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  9. 28th September 2006, 08:39 PM #39
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    Mine go into a box to be recycled into yet new stuffups
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  10. 29th September 2006, 09:59 AM #40
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    Some are finishable and become lessons in what not to do.
    Others sit on the shelf in the shed until I can either figure out how to fix it or if they are really nice, they disappear quietly when I'm not looking

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  11. 29th September 2006, 10:29 AM #41
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    Wink Firewood

    Mine become Firewood,
    but now that it is Summer;
    I shan't make any [MORE] Stuff-Ups

    Do NOT need the Fire going
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  12. 29th September 2006, 12:03 PM #42
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    Quote Originally Posted by sea dragon View Post
    It used to be said:
    1. Doctors buried their mistakes;
    2. Lawyers were sued by their mistakes; and
    3. Architects grow ivy over theirs.
    In a past life I was a barman so I would add

    4. Barmen drink their mistakes.

    On a busy Friday night the more mistakes you would make ..the more mistakes you would make...etc etc.
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  13. 5th October 2006, 10:11 PM #43
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    I have a wood heater and there is always a fine line between fire wood and furniture with character.

    Although all of my furniture is made from timber that has been saved from being firewood in the first place .
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