Thread: WIP - The wood and I are still fighting....

Wendy! You have go to stop listening to the 'wood' - next thing you know you will be acting like a guy. :eek:

Seriously though, it is a nice piece, but you need a saw till, do you need a dresser - probably not otherwise that is what you would have been building.

I would use it as a saw till (which will make building another version to use as a dresser that much nicer and easier).

Cam

Originally Posted by CameronPotter

Wendy! You have go to stop listening to the 'wood' - next thing you know you will be acting like a guy. :eek:

Seriously though, it is a nice piece, but you need a saw till, do you need a dresser - probably not otherwise that is what you would have been building.

I would use it as a saw till (which will make building another version to use as a dresser that much nicer and easier).

Cam

Cam is absolutely right. Also, if the wood talks like that, why would you want to have it in your bedroom. It's bad enough to have it talking in the shed, but in the boudoir it could put you off more important things (like sleep)

Hi Cam and JMK89

Acting like a guy??? Oh, bite your tongue Wendy

I've been thinking I'd make this one into what it wants to be then, then sell it so it can go annoy someone else in their boudoir Then I can make my SawTill exactly the way I want it.

Cheers
Wendy

Go the saw till, Ruffy.

Who's in charge here? If the wood talks to you, in a disrespectful and obstreperous manner, introduce it to the combustion stove.

Cut off one chook's head and they all start laying.

Ruffly,

This is wood that has feelings - obviously.
Although it is coming over smart and opinionated, I think it secretly wants to be dominated. It's a tussle between you and the wood as to who is the dominant pesonality, but I think if you take the hard line, become the dominant one in this relationship, the wood will secretly thank you, and become your willing slave.
Have you got what it takes to dominate???

Chris

cut it up into little tiny peices to punish it, if it still complains burn it. .

I agree with banksiaman, this wood wants to be dominated by you. Make it stick to its original purpose. You need a place worthy of your saws so you can keep cracking out those dovetails.

Wow - 6 to 1 for the sawtill, and to dominate the wood. Hmm, where's my red super suit and high heels

9Fingers - you are so right, I can feel the strong call to make more dovetails.

Zed and Bodgy, I can't cut it up to burn it, it's the last of the natural edge-bark on CL I have left..... Maybe that's why it's so tempermental?


Are you all tellling me that you don't listen to the wood and maybe it doesn't even 'talk' to you??

Am I truly the wierdest one here (in this regard)? I'm starting to feel wierder than plasticine and lonely :confused:

Wendy

Well, for starters, just look to the left to find your red suit...

As for it being the last bit of a nice bit of wood, well, if you are sentimental about it, don't use it in the shed. I find that anything in there eventually gets covered in oil and glue and scratches and dust (and that includes me)!

However, if you would appreciate it in there - well that is different.

As for listening to the wood, that is far more important for rustic work than trimmed clean edged work... Thus, the more rustic the piece, the more in tune with "listening" to the wood you have to be...

As for whether I listen or not - that depends greatly on what kind of work I am doing. If the work is something which needs to be a certain dimension - then there is a limited ability to go with the flow... However, even when turning, I must say that my larger objects tend to develop their own beads and coves as it goes. It is rare that I know what a bowl will look like until it comes off the lathe.

Whew! Thanks Cam!

Oh yeah, and don't forget about all those times when the wood decides right near the finishing stage that it really belongs in the scrap bin and insists on gouging itself badly with whatever tool is being used.

I mean, it couldn't be my technique could it???

my wife also talks and assigns personality to inanimate objects. <rolleyes> sad really...

Ruffly - I've never heard of a 'saw till' until now - must be one of those darkside thingies - like handplanes! Seeing I have no idea what a good till looks like (or how big it should be), if the wood is special to you - I think you should make it into something that will be cared for and not covered in crap in the shed! Go the dresser and lean an axe against it to remind it who's in charge - should keep it quiet

Ruffy

I don't listen so much to the wood, I tend to talk more to it. The things I say would not bear repeating.

Maybe I should listen more, set free my sensitive side - Nah!