Complete disaster!

[Mike Davis]

Two days wasted and one present short.

Time to regroup, rethink, gather my wits and try again.

Just making a simple box, cut the dovetails wrong and had an extra board so no big deal. Got to the end and realized I cut one corner backwards and cut one groove on the wrong side of the board.

All that wood is trash. :kamahlitu

Don't know if I will do something else or resaw and plane new boards... :dontknow:

Feel like crap! :no:

 

[Joe Scharle]

Wow...bummer...nothing like that ever happened to the rest of us :rotflm:

 

[MikeH]

That has never :eusa_doh: happened to me. Yeah right!

Sorry to hear about the wasted wood Mike. If anyone can come up with something it's you.

 

[meredj]

Hey just fill the groove with another wood and call it "inlay".... :rotflm:

 

[manfre]

Do what a barber does when they oops and just cut it all a little bit shorter. If you keep making mistakes, it will eventually be a very nice (singular) coin box.

 

[CDPeters]

I feel your pain Mike - I hate those projects when nothing seems to go right - especially when there is a hard deadline involved!

 

[Mike Davis]

Found a plank already planed close to size and long enough. Cut the pieces and marked them. Now to be very careful while cutting.

Maybe I need some blue tape! :rotflm:

 

[FredP]

Found a plank already planed close to size and long enough. Cut the pieces and marked them. Now to be very careful while cutting.

Maybe I need some blue tape! :rotflm:

I've found the green tape to be just as effective.....:-D

 

[Bill Clemmons]

I don't know Mike. I'm starting to get a little concerned about the chili you're fixing tomorrow. Sure hope it's a better day. :rotflm:

Bill

 

[CrealBilly]

Found a plank already planed close to size and long enough. Cut the pieces and marked them. Now to be very careful while cutting.

Maybe I need some blue tape! :rotflm:

White tape ain't to bad either just don't pull off against the grain - else you'll be sorry

 

[JCraig]

I don't know Mike. I'm starting to get a little concerned about the chili you're fixing tomorrow. Sure hope it's a better day. :rotflm:

Bill

Yeah Bill, that's for sure. I started to send a smart a&& reply, but I got to thinking about that Chili and changed my mind. It might be a little hotter than I could stand. "Mike, I understand how you fee.". Course, it's never happened to me.:rotflm:

 

[nelsone]

Weren't you just following the woodworking adage "Cut Twice and Measure Once"????:gar-Bi

 

[Mike Davis]

It fits perfectly, makes a nice z shape. :rotflm:

I'm 3/4 done now, small dovetails are really tedious. :BangHead:

Chili will be fine, may have a little saw dust in it but I hear fiber is good for you. :dontknow:

 

[tryingtokeepmyfingers]

I wasted $20 worth of plywood today... do not feel bad..... I and calling it learning and I left the shop with all my fingers so it could have been worse

 

[CLetts]

I was taught when ya make a mistake, adapt your project......therefore.........I'd give them the pieces and just tell 'em it's a puzzle. :icon_thum

 

[FredP]

I've done that once... or was it twice? short term memory can be a blessing at times. :-D

 

[gfernandez]

Look on the bright side. A complete disaster would be what my neighbor did over the summer. He was trying to use a handsaw to cut through a piece of wood. It was late at night and outside, he couldn't see what he was doing and sawed through the tendon in his thumb.

 

[Mike Davis]

Funny how this got more replies than my invitation to chili. :dontknow:

 

[Dave Peterson]

Funny how this got more replies than my invitation to chili. :dontknow:

It's because we feel your pain. Been there....done that....got the band-aids to prove it!

Dave Peterson

 

[gfernandez]

It's because we feel your pain. Been there....done that....got the band-aids to prove it!

Dave Peterson

Some of us even have the surgical scars.