Bob La Londe on Sat, 14 Sep 2019 08:13:11 -0700
typed in rec.woodworking the following:

If I did single projects from start to finish I could see the utility in
that. Now admittedly I do mostly metal working, but mine is a working
shop. At any given time I have 20 projects of my own and 30-40 customer
jobs on the projects board. Every machine I use has to be accessible
right now or it slows me down.

The situation you are in is different than the situation he is in.
Hobbyists rarely find themselves needing to be ultra efficient in
space and tool usage. As I said while watching the mill make the
prototype: "If I was going into production, I'd do it differently."*
There are a number of skills I would like to have, which I could
no doubt "pick up" if I did them forty hours a week. But I do not
have those 40 hours, so dedicating space to have the drafting /
lettering table, lathe/mill, turning machine, book binding frame,
plough plane and press, etc, etc, and so on, isn't a flying option.
And that is before I get to the non-material crafts. (Anyone know
of a "teach yourself to write Slavonic" textbook/ course?)

tschus
pyotr

*I recall an essay from the early 1990's: the author was a
professional furniture maker, who wrote that the finest furniture was
made by his neighbor, the accountant. Because _he_ did not have to
sell something to make the rent, he could spend all the time needed to
make it "perfect". From choosing the wood, to the final finishing.
I'm with him, there are a lot of things I've made which never got
"properly finished" because I needed something now, not next week. But
I digress.
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pyotr filipivich
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