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View Poll Results: Which phase of a Woodworking Project is your favourite
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Design
11 33.33% -
Sourcing the Timber
4 12.12% -
Preparing the Stock
9 27.27% -
Joinery (Cutting DTs, M&Ts, etc)
10 30.30% -
Shaping (routers, rasps, etc)
7 21.21% -
Glue-ups
4 12.12% -
Finishing
10 30.30% -
End use (selling it, giving it away or using it)
6 18.18% -
Other
5 15.15%
Thread: Favourite Phase of a Project
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16th June 2006, 03:05 PM #1
Favourite Phase of a Project
What is your favourite part on a woodworking project? This applies to 'Dark Siders' as well as 'Other Siders'.
Is it the design phase, sourcing the timber, preparing the stock, joinery, finishing? Which part of the process do you really look forward to?
You can pick a number of options, but if you could limit to your most favourite WW activity.If I do not clearly express what I mean, it is either for the reason that having no conversational powers, I cannot express what I mean, or that having no meaning, I do not mean what I fail to express. Which, to the best of my belief, is not the case.
Mr. Grewgious, The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens
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16th June 2006, 04:40 PM #2
My favourite bit is when the cheque clears!
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16th June 2006, 04:56 PM #3
By finishing, I don't just mean paint or shellac or wax or oil. I mean all of it coming together in the finished product. Doing the finishing is the stage when that happens. But it is when that is done that you can stand back and say "Yup, that's a good job" or (more frequently) "Bugger, another fine piece of firewood".
Cheers
Jeremy
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly
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16th June 2006, 05:13 PM #4
I enjoy the joinery bit. Cutting dovetails, M&T and see them fit. Oiling, waxing and polishing are quite rewarding too.
I don’t really enjoy glue-ups especially for big projects. It is quite stressful I must say.Visit my website at www.myFineWoodWork.com
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16th June 2006, 05:17 PM #5
All of 'em except glue ups and finishing, which I find incredibly tedious.
DanIs there anything easier done than said?- Stacky. The bottom pub, Cobram.
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16th June 2006, 05:22 PM #6
You've got to risk it to get the biscuit
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finishing, just love to see the wood go from dullish to bright and glowing on the lathe,
S T I R L O
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16th June 2006, 05:30 PM #7
Stirlo me lad, you are obviously using Uncle Neil and Aunty Paulines perfect polishes!
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16th June 2006, 06:03 PM #8
You've got to risk it to get the biscuit
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yep, absolutely brilliant stuff....but i also use hut.
S T I R L O
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16th June 2006, 06:31 PM #9
I voted joinery, but I like the concept phase, I like buying the timber and prepping it. In fact I like pretty much all of the phases except, perhaps, the finishing which is my least favourite, but even that can be fun (except the sanding part
).
BTW, you should have added a "hiding the stuff-ups" option too :eek:
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16th June 2006, 07:24 PM #10
Glad it was a multiple choice. I enjoy the whole process, but especially the design phase (except when I have designer's block), joinery - actually making the item to fine tolerances that will never be seen, but I know are there. Unlike Wongo, I quite enjoy glue-ups as a mental challenge, planning, practising then working against the clock to get it right. Can't say I enjoy sanding, but I do enjoy seeing something develop a nice lustre as it's sanded progressively finer then oiled and oiled and oiled, then waxed.
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16th June 2006, 07:43 PM #11
I enjoy all the pahses, but easily get bored by repition.
Being a sort of driven person, the best bit is standing back and looking at the finished article. Unfortunately, I sometimes take shortcuts to get to that orgasmic state.Bodgy
"Is it not enough simply to be able to appreciate the beauty of the garden without it being necessary to believe that there are faeries at the bottom of it? " Douglas Adams
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16th June 2006, 08:12 PM #12
Any part that involves working with wood. Not glue, not lacquer, definitely not the end-user... WOOD!
- Andy Mc
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16th June 2006, 08:34 PM #13
I might be a bit of a sicko but I actually like sanding. I just love the feel of wood and this is the time that you get up close and personal with the wood.
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16th June 2006, 09:11 PM #14
Originally Posted by Grunt
Hand sanding has a similar motion to patting a dog
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17th June 2006, 11:14 PM #15
I enjoy turning an idea into a design and then making it go together. It can result in a lot of firewood before the finished article, but with the price of cabinet timber, there is a challenge to turn a flaw in the design into a feature!
Of course, one of the best buzzes comes from bragging on this forum.
Cheers
Graeme
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