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Thread: Off to a good start
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4th February 2006, 11:36 AM #1
Off to a good start
This morning I decided to cut the half blind dovetails in the top of the side rails of a wardrobe I'm currently working on. Cut the right hand one o.k. Nice tight fit looks o.k.
Proceeded to mark out and cut the left hand one. Finished chiseling the pin, time for a test. Yep, that's right I managed to cut it on the outside of the rail. :mad: This despite that side being clearly marked "outside".
What a d!ckhead. :mad:
Now I have to cut another rail and the two tenons and route a slot for the floating panel. Then I can have another a go at cutting the pin.
Aaaaaaarggggh !!!!!!!
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4th February 2006, 12:25 PM #2
Maaate!
Sympathy greenie on its way.
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4th February 2006, 01:48 PM #3Senior Member
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If it makes you feel any better, I just destroyed a handcut dovetailed drawer with, of all things, a ROS. Was talking while working, (I don't pay enough attention with the ROS) and managed to completely mangle a corner. *sigh*
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4th February 2006, 02:47 PM #4
No, it soesn't make me feel any better but I feel your pain.
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4th February 2006, 06:14 PM #5
Craig. I do this sort of stuff all the time. Don't worry about it. There are others far worse.
In my case its all to do with left brain/right brain dominance. I get lost in my own suburb, got no spatial orientation whatsover. There are other characteristics of this dominance, some good, some bad. I just live with it.
I navigated a yacht up thru the 'Wash' inside the Solitary's off Coffs, in a gale, but I get lost picking the kids up from school.
Just a doughy old hippy, really.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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4th February 2006, 07:43 PM #6
Been there, got the 'T' shirt. Still a bummer though. Have a greenie as a condolence
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4th February 2006, 08:57 PM #7
Craig
This proves that you like most of us are human. Read useless stupid dickhaed etc etc. Don't feel special, even Ozwinner has his moments. Sympathy greenie on the way.Cheers
Jim
"I see dumb peope!"
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4th February 2006, 11:01 PM #8
Craig , I suspect there was something else on your mind at the time, perhaps it was the S word?
See who else says been there done that.woody U.K.
"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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4th February 2006, 11:25 PM #9
Sounds very very familiar Craig.
Those who haven't made such mistakes haven't done much woodwork.- Wood Borer
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4th February 2006, 11:41 PM #10
Just two days ago I was glueing up a box of birch ply with mitered corners for a toy box. Using corner clamps, I put three sides together so I could slide in the bottom panel in a dado. I had too walk a way for a few moments. But I wasn't worried. I could go back later slide in the bottom and clamp on the last side. I've done it this way before. An hour later when I came back the box I groaned as I realized that one of my sides was fliped making the dado for the bottom panel on the top side of the box. I stood there for 20 minutes not knowing what to do and trying not to go ballistic.:eek:
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5th February 2006, 01:55 AM #11
Mistakes? I don't make mistakes... I just recycle wood.
During my last effort at recycling, I needed a couple of 2' lengths to make a jig, so I grabbed a couple of short lengths of "scrap" leaning against the TS and trimmed 'em to size on the SCMS. On building the jig, I noticed a couple of mitres in the ends... at which point I realised I'd just cut up the rails for a drop-leaf table that had to be out by the end of the week and was simply awaiting assembly. :eek:
Worse, being out of suitable stock for replacement rails, I had to cut down existing parts from yet another project that was also waiting in the wings.
And I do this for a fun?
- Andy Mc
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5th February 2006, 11:20 AM #12
Thanks for the sympathy folks. I feel better now.
I know we all (or most?) tend to do it but it still a major pita isn't it?
I just tell my self that next time I'll be more careful. Yeah right.
Cheers
Craig
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5th February 2006, 02:09 PM #13
In winter to keep warm we have a wood heater, I buy redgum or cut my own depending on whats available.
During the weekends I cut kindling to start the fire, but I never make mistakesStupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.
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5th February 2006, 02:58 PM #14
Just in the process of making another little jewellery chest - the one with the external frame, 5 drawers that JOW's is derived from.
Cut all the pieces for the frame - no problems. Cut all the finger joints for the frame - no problems. Cut first the cross halved joint - oops, one half is cut on the edge insted of the side. Oh well, reset all the jigs & cut another one, complete with finger joints on each end.
Complete cutting cross halved joints. Cut slots for drawer runners on the frame sides. As these must be dead accurate, set up stop on the TS and do four sides at once. Tap together to check fit, and break one side.
Cut and size a replacement side, and very carefully mark position of slots for runners. Carefully reset TS and cut slots. Check for fit (carefully) and glue up.
When glue is dry, unclamp, and marvel at the curve that is in the frame, because you forgot to ease the clamps once it was in position. Throw in corner and proceed to second frame.
Proceed to glue up second frame. As you are pushing it together, break another frame side. Startle neighbours with language. Cut and size a replacement side, and very carefully mark position of slots for runners. Carefully reset TS and cut slots. Check for fit (carefully) and glue up.
Retrieve first frame from corner, cut top and bottom out and make two new pieces (complete with finger joints and cross halved joints). Check for fit etc. etc. and very very carefully glue up.
Tell self that this was meant to be a quick little job, and the drawers will be much less trouble.
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5th February 2006, 06:38 PM #15Originally Posted by AlexS
What I reckon is that there must be some sort of woodworking demon that we can blame.
I reckon that the little bastard gets in our sheds and makes us do this stuff because there's no way that we sensible folks would do these sort of things if we were left to ourselves.
I wonder what his name is?
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