If there is anything I’m ever good at, it’s persistence: the commitment of making the same mistakes over and over. Maybe if I do it enough I’ll learn someday. Sometimes I do it even knowing there is a better way of doing it. Stop using recycled wood, for one. This…
Here are a few more joinery I learned to do in years prior. My recent foray into it has been very disappointing, mostly because I have no self discipline, so I’m including these to show I have accomplished something at point in some distant past. Maybe these will encourage me…
Ok, I totally screwed up. Sometimes you just gotta keep making the same mistakes over and over until you’re reat to learn the lesson. In my case, the lesson is to make the mortise first before cutting the pieces to the final size. Because it is too close to the…
I received a long piece of Douglas Fir used lumber. It might have been a part of house siding that got discarded. My scavenging coworker harvested it and gave it to me. I want to make a shadow box because the stash of shadow boxes that I have that were…
I’m back in Jay’s wood class! I’m so excited to be messing up every week and risking my life due to the sharpness of my chisels and the saw. Still, my brain will be functioning at some level on Saturday. I also found out that last semester, I did get…
Consistency has been my biggest foe this month. I don’t know what’s happening to me. Ever since the show went up in early February, I’ve been feeling really down and slow to start on a lot of things. I want to just retreat into my turtle shell for 5 days…
Well.. so much for getting back to routine! I completely slacked off for a few days. I think the only time I’m guaranteed to do a drawing is if I get on a train. Otherwise, it’s a crapshoot. I’ve never been good at self discipline. However, I’m good at having…
I know I haven’t posted anything for a few days, but let’s not dwell on the past, shall we? I want to focus on today. My first day back in woodworking class. 8 AM on a Saturday is really, really brutal, but it is effective in weeding out the people…
So this was the last day of our woodworking class for the semester and I’ve never drawn Jay! So here he is… sorta (along with notes for myself and notes that he wrote on the dry erase board). He moves around too much. Despite being slow in the process (I…
Our woodworking class teacher invited us to go to his house for a shop party! I was really excited because he’s such a character and so down to earth, and I’ve learned so much from him and from the class. I was really happy to see that his shop is…