Monday, October 16, 2006

Neglect

I know, I know - I've been letting the blogging go recently. It's not for want of desire to blog, simply that I haven't really done anything in the workshop to speak of. Usually I'd fall back on theoretical woodworking instead, but my mind's taken up with things for a second article for the Lee Valley email newsletter (Now folks can claim I'm in their pay, and with justification - so naturally they haven't. D'oh!) Not that I don't often manage to think of something else to say when I'm working on a whittering for the web site, but there's something about getting remuneration for writing something I find horribly inhibiting. I'm so wrapped up in not falling foul of the rules and regs of exclusivity and such that I dread to let a word slip - and thus clam up completely in consequence. Silly, isn't it? Still, I've got a couple of ideas swilling about in the old brain cell, so all I need now is some workshop time to implement them.

Oh, and I found myself another tapered reamer. You look for years for one, and then two come along at once - typical. Hah, yes, and also another wad punch... Gimme a "C", gimme an "O", gimme an "L", gimme another "L"...

3 comments:

  1. Glad to see you made it through the weekend in one piece! Hope you're feeling better. What's this about paid employment to write? I thought you'd given up doing written reviews etc.

    JMF

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  2. Hi ALF,

    Regarding the writing, congratulations plus 10-low and 5-high. It is distressing to read of your second-guessing yourself. Freshness, openness, a mastery of woodworking details, and an uncommon degree of commonsense are the hallmarks of your style. Please keep it up and don't change a thing.

    Wiley

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  3. Hey up, northerly-residing nephew. T'was not a review, which I have indeed given up, but waffle on making a scratchstock skillfully edited by someone else to make sense. Wish I'd had one of these editor whallahs years ago... ;)

    Wiley, you're right; second-guessing myself is fatal for the "flow". I'm doing my best to stop doing it, but like cutting dovetails, it's a matter of practice and in the meantime I expect to turn out some pretty iffy joints! :)

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