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Default Trigonometry vs. woodworking - How far is too far?

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:33:30 -0400, Gordon Airporte
wrote:

It's interesting to see someone taking something that I try to avoid
where possible - basing my cuts on measurements and calculations, heavy
reliance on perfectly dimensioned stock - and going over the top with
it. The guy wants to make some simple stacking sawhorses:

http://pervivere.blogspot.com/2006/0...ing-stuff.html

Of course, he did get just the product he wanted, and obviously this is
fun for him.


He's too in love with his math to see it was a waste of time even when
someone pointed it out to him, and doesn't seem to quite grasp what
parallel means.

But that's the beauty of woodworking, you can go about things all
ass-backwards and not see the forest through the trees and still end
up with something right. There's just usually more cursing and fixing
that this guy had to go through. Not that I would know anything about
that.


-Leuf