4 Short Months 'til Christmas!!

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-- Paul , Calfornia

sorry to hear you are suffering from thinking again ,
i allways look forward to your posts/projects .

i’m impresed , with your fence solution ,
and “testing it ”, before using it , we can all learn from .

i have just decided that i am not a finisher !
i just built a couple of boxes , they took hours , but have tacken days to sand over and re spray ,
and i still have to totally re-strip them and start again !

no more mr nice guy !
rub it on or bust .

i just can’t take the agony of defeat anymore .

as far as the thinking goes ,
i have been performing self
lobotamy ,
and so far i am very happy !

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

David, always a pleasure! Sounds like you’re practicing the Zen art of Not-Thinking. Very Difficult…
Had this guy working for us at one place, quieter than a Wooden Indian, and with as much emotion as last year’s bird’s nest. Anyway, I tried to imagine what it must be like to be inside his head…I had visions of an empty raquetball court, all quiet but echoing…could even hear the games in the other courts, but in that court… nothing… poor guy…
That rub-on stuff is sounding better and better to me, too…though I’ll have to learn all about it. So much to learn and do… :-)

-- Mike in Manchester, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

Mike, great box….great fence rig.

David, have you got plans for that self-lobotomy thing? A sketchup maybe? Or could you just blog it for us?

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Hey Mike this box looks great. It does not fall the paltry category at all.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Thanks Paul, Charlie, and Jim!! I used to say “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy!”
Now, I’m thinking a ball peen hammer, peen end, forcefully applied to the forehead, repeated as necessary, would probably do the trick…
But there I go, “thinking” again…;-)

-- Mike in Manchester, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

mike ,
a rubber mallet is the way,
stand in front of a solid post ,
wack forhead and let mallet bounce to post .
and back !
if you are the right distance ,
and have the right velocity ,
you should get into a ,
” perpetual state ” !

let the force work for you !

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

Mike,
Those pictures of the hinges look great! Just send the pictures and you keep the box!
I too love making those boxes. Now I will try my hand at those neat hinges.
Ellen

-- Ellen on Cape Cod

Thank you, Ellen! You gave me a good chuckle to start the day (a rare event!). I did consider keeping this one and making another one…;)
I’m off to cut the folk’s lawn. Sadly, no WWing today, unless you count trimming hedges…

-- Mike in Manchester, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

Mike, I think that you should keep that box. It’d be a good enough reason to make and post another one!
NICE WORK!!!

-- Cheers and God Bless

Thanks, Kris! I am leaning towards making another for her son…

-- Mike in Manchester, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.