On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:42:09 GMT, Brian Henderson
wrote:

I was thinking about this last night as I was wrapping my daughter's
birthday presents.

When I'm woodworking, all of my measurements are very precise, all of
my cuts are dead straight and I worry about being a few thousandths of
an inch off and everything has to be perfectly square. Yet when I was
wrapping, so long as I cut the paper reasonably straight and kind of
square, I was happy. The corners were sort of tight and as long as it
looked decent, I had no problem with it.

Is there anything else in our lives, as woodworkers, where we're as
exacting as we are when we're out in the shop?

probably the same degree for most things, but I don't consider myself a good
woodworker... I do tend to have more patience in the shop than on a lot of
things, but that's probably because I got into wood to relax..

In my experience, the folks who's work I've really admired are basically pretty
anal in their wood and just about every facet of their lives... I'm not saying
that being a perfectionist is good or bad, just what I've observed..
Mac
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