2X4 Winter Contest #3: Bummer... :(

Give it your best shot Jamie.

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

By all means finish even if you don’t make the deadline. The exercise is worth the effort. It’s been said more than once that this challenge changes the way you look at a 2×4. I’m looking forward to see the finished product.

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

It’ll be nice to see either way!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

It is difficult to find enough time with the challenges of work, family and right now weather to schedule some meaningful shop time. But I agree with the others in that completion of the project is really what is important.

I just cannot fathom a guitar lying dormant inside an 8’ 2×4. I am really looking forward to seeing your project.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Count me in for wanting to see it finished, regardless of deadlines. It just sounds like to cool a project to just NOT give it a solid go!

-- "Give me your poor tools, your tired steel, your huddled masses of rust." Yep, I ripped off the Statue of Liberty. That's how I roll!

make it an early entry for next years contest

Keep on keeping on. I want to see it, too.

for our summer 2007 awards, we had entries posted in the fall—obviously beyond the deadline, but the challenge was worth completion.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

if it dont make the l j challenge it can still make the jamie challenge !

I understand completely. But it is the challenge, and not the deadline that is really important. Like others, I really would like to see how it turns out.

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Thank you guys for the inspiration and support. Like I said above, I probably won’t make the deadline, but I’ll continue on with the project. I’ve already gone to far into it to quit now.

-- Jamie, Kentucky