On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:32:16 -0500, Joe Bemier
wrote:

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:09:21 GMT, wrote:



I was at Walmart the other day getting a tire repaired. As I wandered
around the store, I came up the 'furniture' aisle and saw an
unfinished spruce/pine chest. It was crudely made of rough milled
(read construction wood) and warped 1x4, rough cut ends, badly fitted
and nailed together with a pallet nail gun. Only 49$. This thing
makes Ikea knock down furniture look like heirloom craftmanship.

Puts a whole new perspective on things. The next time I beat myself
up for the flaws I see in my finished stuff I'll go wandering through
Walmart.

I got to get out more.

Pete
I feel that's a poor way of looking at things, Pete. Go out and find
the worst presentation of things so you can feel better about your own
shortcomings? I'd hate to think what will happen if you are exposed to
a prison.

I have to laugh. This thread has taken on a whole new dimension. I
was merely making an observation about something I saw at a time when
I was thinking about my own work. Perhaps I should have said 'go
wandering though furniture stores'.

When I can see all the goofs in my work that I don't charge money for
(the work not the goofs) and then see the crap being sold for money, I
begin to rethink how I see my work. This is not an excuse to stagnate
nor feel that my mistakes are OK but a wake up to stop being so hard
on myself. My work will always improve and I try to avoid making the
same mistakes twice, but only when I remember what the original
problem was. I only need to put out good work not perfection.

As for my shortcomings, I have plenty just like you and everone else.
I don't need you or anyone else to point them out to me because that's
my job and I can do that much better than you. And what the hell does
any of this have to do with prison?

These days I rarely go through life thinking I can do things as good
or better as another man's work. This particular chest was an
exception.

Pete