Information and encouragement for beginners

[kmealy]

"Skill is made, not born in us, and it advances best through difficulties."  - Charles Hayward (1898-1998)

 

and

 

http://chiefs-shop.com/html/five_things_about_beginner_woo.html

[lew]

Good advice!

[HandyDan]

Very well put.

[PostalTom]

Yep.  I have learned my most valuable lessons thru mistakes, which luckily have left me uninjured, except for my wallet.

[Gene Howe]

Mistakes define my woodworking.

[Stick486]

what they said...

[schnewj]

It's not always preventing the mistakes that make you good at woodworking...but, how you recover from the mistakes you make, does...

[kmealy]

It's not a mistake, it's a learning opportunity.  Or a chance to re-consider the design. 

I have a friend that I've helped out from time to time.   He would always irritate me with the comment, "It sure is easy when you have the right tools."    I felt like telling him I had a very nice violin upstairs if he'd like to do some Vivaldi for me.

Edited November 29, 2017 by kmealy

[DAB]

Tools don’t design or build it. Your imagination and hands to. 

[Gene Howe]

The hands and the brain are our best tools. I use my hands a lot. 

[schnewj]

6 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

The hands and the brain are our best tools. I use my hands a lot. 

Gene, are you inferring that if you had half a brain it would be lonely?

 

Seriously, your not alone! Every once in awhile "self" says, to me "why did you do that, dumbarse"?

[Gene Howe]

I've never checked but, I think both halves are there. They just don't get used a lot.

[DAB]

16 hours ago, DAB said:

Tools don’t design or build it. Your imagination and hands do. 

*do

 

sigh.

 

fat fingers....

[schnewj]

47 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

I've never checked but, I think both halves are there. They just don't get used a lot.

Hmmmmm!

 

[Dadio]

Best mistake I ever made was woodworking. I learned to cut wood with a bow saw when I was 5 years old and thought it was a mistake then but my mom sure made some good bread from burning it. So I might say I burned my mistakes.

Herb

[hatuffej]

2 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

I've never checked but, I think both halves are there. They just don't get used a lot.

I have two minds. One is lost and the other is out looking for it.

[Al B]

I'm sure both halves are with me. Problem is, they don't always agree with each other. Causes a lot of confusion.

[Snailman]

I make plenty of mistakes (learning opportunities). I kind of like it when it happens. It forces me to try to be creative, which I don't get to do in my day to day. 

[Grandpadave52]

Dad reminded me often I should learn from the mistakes of others because I wouldn't live long enough to make them all myself.

[Stick486]

why make the same mistake twice...

too many other new ones to give a try...