Woodworking paradox
 

Is it just me or does every woodowrker find that when building a jig or
some other thing for the shop, you need the thing you're building to
build it?

Some examples:
* I needed a cross-cut sled to build my cross-cut sled.
* I needed a router table to buid my router table (see Norm's New
Yankee Workshop New Improved Router Table where he uses the old version
to build the new improved one.)
* I needed a bench with vises to build my bench with vises.
* Etc.

"Never Enough Money" wrote in
oups.com:

Is it just me or does every woodowrker find that when building a jig or
some other thing for the shop, you need the thing you're building to
build it?

Some examples:
* I needed a cross-cut sled to build my cross-cut sled.
* I needed a router table to buid my router table (see Norm's New
Yankee Workshop New Improved Router Table where he uses the old version
to build the new improved one.)
* I needed a bench with vises to build my bench with vises.
* Etc.



That's what friends are for.

Patriarch

On 11 Jun 2005 07:37:10 -0700, "Never Enough Money"
wrote:

Is it just me or does every woodowrker find that when building a jig or
some other thing for the shop, you need the thing you're building to
build it?

Some examples:
* I needed a cross-cut sled to build my cross-cut sled.
* I needed a router table to buid my router table (see Norm's New
Yankee Workshop New Improved Router Table where he uses the old version
to build the new improved one.)
* I needed a bench with vises to build my bench with vises.
* Etc.

Hardly unique to woodworking: it's call "bootstrapping".

Lee

On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:52:38 -0700, Lee DeRaud wrote:

Hardly unique to woodworking: it's call "bootstrapping".

And that's _my_ woodworking goal: making my own tools to make my own
tools to make my family's furniture. (Yes, I'd love to build a cupola
furnace and go all the way back to dirt.)


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