Originally Posted by
Mike Davis
How can I live with myself duplicating projects out of a magazine?
That's an interesting viewpoint - I found myself thinking about it on the ride into work this morning. I can see both sides of it. Chris
We were talking about a related subject this morning, in that we weren't sure that everyone understands (because we haven't explained it well!) that the turning skills you learn in the Build a Chess Set weekend seminars are the bulk of exterior spindle turning skills for anything & everything. So, to a great degree, if you can turn a pawn, a bishop, and a rook, you can do the exterior turning for most solid-body lathe projects.
BUT FIRST YOU HAVE TO TRY REALLY, REALLY, REALLY HARD TO TURN ALL 16 PAWNS JUST EXACTLY RIGHT.
And then the four bishops, four rooks, four royals,
No innovating.
No, "Okay: I got this."
No swerving from the plan.
Alan & I are great "wing it" types, but just as students in our classes need to first do what they are told/taught to do, so do we. So I truly need the discipline of following someone else's ideas for a little while......................and then their ideas become my skills, and I can incorporate them any way I wish.
However, if I had a larger skill base, I probably wouldn't need to "see one, make one" so much. Mike, for example, has a very large skill base. Plus he HATES HATES HATES to do exactly what he's told to do.