Thread: a cautionary tale.....

I'm sure that any reader of this forum will understand. We all have sharpening 'triggers'. For some it is the failing performance ... of the tool. For others it is day of the week, month year ... decade. For me it is the completion of a job. In this case I have finished a cabinet for a mate to display his model trains. It was made almost exclusively with handtools and so post-project sharpening was even more necessary. I got into a real zen zone yesterday. I settled into a routine ... wet grinder for the worst and damaged, veritas II with diamond plate, 1000 shapton, 8000 shapton, fronts and backs, planes and chisels, camelia oil .... but I pushed it a bit too far and started on a old, now short, 1.25" Titan. Too short to fit into the wet stone, a marathon on the diamond plate with the veritas .... and I didn't finish it last night.
All day it niggled at me ... I got home ... only took off my tie ... needed an excuse to go to the shed .... I needed to finish it or I couldn't relax. I feared 'unrequited zen zone' wouldn't be acceptable reason but what on earth made me utter ... I have to get down to the shed because I haven't cleaned up the blood from yesterday .... !

fletty