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"Never Enough Money"

11/06/2005 7:37 AM

Woodworking paradox

Is it just me or does every woodowrker find that when building a jig or
some other thing for the shop, you need the thing you're building to
build it?

Some examples:
* I needed a cross-cut sled to build my cross-cut sled.
* I needed a router table to buid my router table (see Norm's New
Yankee Workshop New Improved Router Table where he uses the old version
to build the new improved one.)
* I needed a bench with vises to build my bench with vises.
* Etc.


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Patriarch

in reply to "Never Enough Money" on 11/06/2005 7:37 AM

11/06/2005 9:49 AM

"Never Enough Money" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> Is it just me or does every woodowrker find that when building a jig or
> some other thing for the shop, you need the thing you're building to
> build it?
>
> Some examples:
> * I needed a cross-cut sled to build my cross-cut sled.
> * I needed a router table to buid my router table (see Norm's New
> Yankee Workshop New Improved Router Table where he uses the old version
> to build the new improved one.)
> * I needed a bench with vises to build my bench with vises.
> * Etc.
>
>

That's what friends are for.

Patriarch

LD

Lee DeRaud

in reply to "Never Enough Money" on 11/06/2005 7:37 AM

11/06/2005 7:52 AM

On 11 Jun 2005 07:37:10 -0700, "Never Enough Money"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Is it just me or does every woodowrker find that when building a jig or
>some other thing for the shop, you need the thing you're building to
>build it?
>
>Some examples:
>* I needed a cross-cut sled to build my cross-cut sled.
>* I needed a router table to buid my router table (see Norm's New
>Yankee Workshop New Improved Router Table where he uses the old version
>to build the new improved one.)
>* I needed a bench with vises to build my bench with vises.
>* Etc.

Hardly unique to woodworking: it's call "bootstrapping".

Lee

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Australopithecus scobis

in reply to "Never Enough Money" on 11/06/2005 7:37 AM

11/06/2005 2:49 PM

On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:52:38 -0700, Lee DeRaud wrote:

> Hardly unique to woodworking: it's call "bootstrapping".

And that's _my_ woodworking goal: making my own tools to make my own
tools to make my family's furniture. (Yes, I'd love to build a cupola
furnace and go all the way back to dirt.)


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