charlieb wrote:
An Obsession With Perfection

Engineering and probably Business students aswell as Demographers
somewhere along the line encounter The S Curve. Take an “S” and grab
the lower left and upper right end and begin pulling them apart
horizontally. If you pull them far enough apart you end up with a
straight line sloping upward from the lower end to the upper end.
Before that you start moving the tangent line to where the two curves
intersect, flattening the reverse curve towards a straight line.

What’s this have to do with woodworking?


Anything that does not achieve perfection (as variously defined) within
its constraints (time, money, inspiration, skill are just a few) is
complete when the first constraining boundary is reached.

IE; when I run out of time, I evaluate my results at that point and
issue a "pass / fail" grade.

When you run out of concrete, the road is finished.

When I run out of patience, the flaw shrinks. If it shrinks enough, the
piece passes.

How much money I have available for a project controls what kind of wood
it is made from.

Only rarely do I set a piece down and declare it done before I run out
of something. Those are the pieces I am most pleased with.

Bill

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