March 19, 20188 yr Use your hands -- help your brain. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/handiwork-how-busy-hands-can-alter-our-brain-chemistry/
March 19, 20188 yr Not being in possession of a brilliant intellect today, I cringe to imagine the blithering idiot I'd be now, without 50 years of wood working. However, I can attest that those 50 years have done little to preclude stupid mistakes.
March 19, 20188 yr Popular Post Sometimes, things get lost in translation...between the Brain and the Hands. The Brain will come up with the "perfect Plan"... then the hands take over....
March 19, 20188 yr Popular Post Gene you just happen to remind me of my last mistake.. When installing biscuits in my last glue up for that last clock I cut the slots three fourths of the way down in the 1 1/8" maple. This way while digging out chunks of wood, I guess for the true artist I should use the correct definition of the carving steps, so I might say while carving deep canyons, I would not run in to the biscuits and have different woods and glue to worry about later... so installing the biscuits almost down to the bottom of the wood was a brilliant idea!!!!! But then later when it come time to start the caving process I could not tell which side of the board was which...So in my dismay I quickly started digging out biscuits all over the wood. Some how in my preparation I had wrote UP on both sides of the board.... So being a true artist, all the biscuits that ended up on top of the finished area of the clock are all still there in plain sight ....I even highlighted a couple of the most obvious ones. Gluing up wood and doing a doctors appointment was the same day and little thoughts were shooting through my little brain especially after he expressed all the bad things that could happen to the patient while asleep on the operating table...The worst since he would be down there working with his sharp little knives would be to accidentally cut my little thingy off..... Then after I woke up my wife made the comment , oh look the doctor has stuck a long arrow in to the top of your little thingy. Then my daughter said and look at the end of the arrow for it is sticking in to a bag of poison for the tip of the arrow.....Not a happy camper when all the contestants are making fun of your little thingy and too groggy to jump up and defend yourself. Edited March 19, 20188 yr by Smallpatch
March 19, 20188 yr Made more sense that I expected at the beginning... "Trust fund rats..." Interesting analogy.
March 19, 20188 yr I’ve always been an electrician, other than a year of delivering mail, so I have no idea what it’s like to not work with them. I am mostly happy, though I wouldn’t care to guess on the smart part
March 19, 20188 yr 2 minutes ago, DAB said: why do "smart" hands do "dumb" things? Dialect translation confusion disorder. DTCD.
March 19, 20188 yr Author Popular Post 8 hours ago, steven newman said: Sometimes, things get lost in translation...between the Brain and the Hands. The Brain will come up with the "perfect Plan"... then the hands take over.... Yeah, at 11:30 pm last week, I cut the miter the wrong direction on a piece (the last piece) of door molding. Filler piece made it work. Can your left hand slap your right hand when it screws up?
March 19, 20188 yr 41 minutes ago, kmealy said: Can your left hand slap your right hand when it screws up? Yep...does it all the time...'course I'm left handed so...
March 20, 20188 yr Working with your hands has other benefits as well. Even just puttering around the shop will lower my blood glucose, as opposed to sitting in front of the computer. John
March 20, 20188 yr 1 hour ago, HARO50 said: Working with your hands has other benefits as well. Even just puttering around the shop will lower my blood glucose, as opposed to sitting in front of the computer. John And all the patting ourselves on the back is good exercise,too. Do lefty's use their right or left hand? Herb
March 20, 20188 yr 13 minutes ago, Dadio said: Do lefty's use their right or left hand? I have to have one of the grandkids pat me on the back for me...my shoulders can't handle that kind of trauma anymore.
March 20, 20188 yr 27 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said: I have to have one of the grandkids pat me on the back for me...my shoulders can't handle that kind of trauma anymore. You and me both. I would be in therapy if I did. Herb
March 20, 20188 yr Author The added advantage is that when I was a software developer, I am sure my mother never understood what I did at my day job. But she could see and appreciate my woodwork.
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