My Clock (in the ruff)
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Jay, I’m a natural finish kinda guy. I like to put a little Dutch Oil or Tonge Oil and let it go. I love to see the grain. But if I can’t get all my screw ups out of it I’ll probably paint and de-stress. My cousin does tole painting so I might have to send it to her and let her work magic on it. Either way it’s going to hang in my house somewhere. I’m going to add some weather gages to it and my wife is already excited about getting the finish product… I could never sale anything because my wife claims everything that comes out of my shop.. 🙂
3 January 2014 at 11:36 pm #25154The clock is looking good Sandy! That gauge is nice as well. I’ve trying to teach myself to gauge by eye for the last year. I’m actually pretty good out to 1″. Just do it for every measurement and it will come to you pretty quickly.
OK now I have to enter some pictures in the “mistakes” page. In the morning I’ll have to remake the face of my clock. My lovley wife pointed out that the clock works and gages are 1/4″ off center. How the heck did I do that? Oh well, it was good practice anyway. 🙂
4 January 2014 at 4:35 am #25189Hate to hear that Sandy. But I’ve remade my share of parts for projects too. It’s a learning process for sure. How many other things that you do are 100% correct 100% of the time? There is not a single thing that I do that I can claim that. I’m learning to work wood and expect to make mistakes. When they come, I take them in stride and learn what I can from them.
Paul talks about woodworking is a process of reduction. My goal is to reduce the number of errors as best as I can.
It’s all good.
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