I once heard a wise old woodturner say:

[Mark Jundanian]

I was one cut away from greatness.
Then I made two more passes.

 

[robo hippy]

You won't find any evidence of failures in my shop..... That is part of why I have a wood stove!

robo hippy

 

[Aaron Harris]

You can just sand that out.

 

[Kent Reisdorph]

I was one cut away from greatness.
Then I made two more passes.

That's me!

 

[Aaron Harris]

My 92 year old turning mentor says that when your tool gets dull, you just push harder.

 

[Timothy White]

when your tool is dull-make up for it by using bad technique.

 

[Ric Williams]

The cheaper tool is not the best deal.

You never know when the world is going to end, so eat dessert first.

 

[John Johnson]

There's no crying in woodturning!

 

[Odie]

As far as I know, the idiom "stop and smell the roses" hasn't been applied to woodturning.....but in a certain way, it really does.

Take your time, and don't worry about getting it done fast. If you do this, you'll find that the learning/remembering process is accentuated in a particularly beneficial way.

On my wall is the note: "Embrace the art of puttering"......and, that little note has taken on a real significance for me in recent times.

-o-

 

[robo hippy]

"I an an adult, I can eat dessert first if I want to!" Mom always told me that if I ate dessert first it would ruin my appetite. Not true at all!

robo hippy

 

[Roger Wiegand]

I think this one was from Raffin - If you don't have a stack of failures in your shop, you aren't trying hard enough.

Related to the best coaching on skiing I ever got-- "If you're not falling down you're not skiing hard enough"

 

[DON FRANK]

You can't make the inside larger than the outside.

 

[Alan Weinberg]

You can't make the inside larger than the outside

doesn’t stop me from occasionally trying.

 

[Ric Williams]

You can't make the inside larger than the outside.

Not if you confine yourself to working in only 3 dimensions

 

[Jerry Bridges]

In my workshop: "I am pointing a steel rod at a piece of wood rotating at 2500 rpms. What could possibly go wrong?"

 

[Terry Vaughan]

Never make the last cut, that's the one that goes wrong

 

[Tony Rozendaal]

On the other hand, I have heard Michael Gibson say when speaking about shape "That piece is only one small shaving away from perfection."

 

[John Torchick]

Pablo Picasso: Never attempt to achieve perfection as you will never make it.

 

[Jerry Bennett]

Sell the best, burn the rest!

 

[Gary Beasley]

You can't make the inside larger than the outside.

Dr Who would disagree with that.