Sick of woodworking??

Andy Dingley wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

And don't go back to golf, either. Talk about useless, frustrating, and a waste of time. (Yes, I sorta played this morning. Waste of time.)

I'm working on a couple of similar arks/boxes. The several I've done already are nice, but not exactly what I was after. Thanks for the links. It will help with the research.

Patriarch

I'm planning a wall cabinet as my first "real" project but wanted to practice on smaller items first. The finger-jointed module approach is an excellent idea. Thanks!

Or Krenov's "With Wakened Hands".

Cheers, Mike

Woodworking projects don't have to produce useful and practical (and boring)household items. Think wooden toys, sculptures, a little sliding-lid box for your block plane, etc. Spend a year not making anything too big to pick up with one hand. Use your power tools to make whittling and carving blanks. Have a private two-by-four contest (what can you design and make from a single 2x4?).

I'm glad that works for you, I'm completely opposite.

I *like* 50 projects going on at once.

Barry

Unbelievably good advice.

Relax, it's fun...

Barry

Used to be.

Neighbours and friends wives ! 8-(

Just google for "bathroom shoji" and "ludic potlatch"

I finished mine today. It's in the ammonia box tonight, then it'll get some waxing tomorrow and be done. Photos sometime soon.

Do you know much about arks ? I've found very little documentation on them and not many examples of them to go and study. Plenty of flat-topped coffers or framed chests, but not many with the "ark" lid.

Any idea how they held the bases on ? I had to guess and did it by two huge tenons in the end and sitting the edges of the base in grooves in the sides.

Quite a fun thing to make. No machine tools, no measuring instruments. I did the whole thing with a couple of chisels, one saw, and a couple of planes.

... and that's _exactly_ what I would do if I didn't exercise some sort of discipline. Nothing would ever get finished. Sort of the woodworker's corollary to "Physician, heal thyself" .... "Wooddorker, know thyself". ;>)

Do a google search of "medieval chests", or "viking woodworking" You'll get a lot of good ideas on arks and similar chests.

--RC

There are almost no web resources on ark chests, and many are wildly inaccurate. Most of them are from SCA people who think that screwed plywood around a beer cooler is "period".

There are some useful sites around on Norse work, but that's a whole different period.

A few pictures from one of the few useful sites:

Did that, a few times, in differant order. I still did not want to go out to the shop! Greg

My god! You are gonna punish me for not woodworking?! Greg

That is where my wife usually finds my when I tell her I am ging to work in the shop for a while. Feet up, dinking a beer, watching the tube! Greg

LOL! I feel sorry for you! My missus really does not give me any crap about anything, no nagging at all. At least when I am not in the shop I have more time to spend with her! Gre

Right now that all sounds like work! Greg

works for me... I have both, and the neighbors usually come by on Monday nights with their lawn chairs and beer coolers to watch Monday Night Talking Nonsense.. umm.. I mean foot ball..

Mac

sometimes when I don't feel like actually MAKING something, I'll throw a scrap between centers on the lathe and just make shavings... great therapy and kind of fun..

"what are you making, dad?"

"A mess, why do you ask?"

works for me... *bg*

Mac

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:59:22 -0500, "Greg O" calmly ranted:

Yes. You are hereby sentenced to watched 7 days of Changing Rooms, Carrol Duvall, BlobVilla's Restore America, and DIYNET's wonderful offerings such as "Woodworking."

That'll larn ya.

-- Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ---- --Unknown