A feelgood woodwork thread

[Harvestman]

Recently there have been complaints about the quality of some of the work that has been posted on here. Specifically , that it was all far too good, and made normal bushcrafters feel thoroughly inadequate and inept.

Therefore, in an effort to redress the balance and make people feel good (and give the skilled woodworkers a laugh) I present the fruits of this afternoon's labours:

Yes, it really is that bad. I had half a round lying about, which had been hacked at with an axe in a futile attempt to split it, and which then split in a particularly skewed way after being hit with a bigger axe. I found a old pole lying in a hedgerow last night when I was walking the dog, so I cut it up to make some legs. I then hacked at the half-round with an axe, adze, froe, blunt drawknife, mora woodcarving knife, and mora spoonknife. I didn't so much finish it as abandon any hope of ever getting it level.

I decided against a sanded finish

After hunting around for a glamorous and beautiful model to enhance my artistic creation, I gave up, and my wife volunteered instead.

I hope everyone feels better now. Stop laughing Kepis!

 

[Goatboy]

Your misses will chop bits off of you for that caption.

I know yours has four legs, but why do milking stools traditionally have three legs.................................


















Because the cow has the udder.*





*I know so it would be stable on cobbles is the real answer.

 

[Niels]

I like it. It should really have 2 bowls next to each other in the seat though for the correct shape.

 

[Harvestman]

I like it. It should really have 2 bowls next to each other in the seat though for the correct shape.

It needs a slightly larger seat for my wife...

 

[Perrari]

It's fine ! They call it rustic !

 

[Kepis]

I hope everyone feels better now. Stop laughing Kepis!

Nowt wrong with that in any respect, can i post a pic up of a stool i made that's not too dissimilar

 

[Dreadhead]

haha nice thread, and i like the stool!

 

[crosslandkelly]

Lovely job mate, and the best thing is , you made it yourself, It's unique.

 

[Harvestman]

haha nice thread, and i like the stool!

I've named it my gnarly stool, in your honour

 

[Elines]

Recently there have been complaints about the quality of some of the work that has been posted on here. Specifically , that it was all far too good, and made normal bushcrafters feel thoroughly inadequate and inept.
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Can't say that I'd noticed that myself but then I don't read as many of the posts as I used to.

Not sure if I am in the same category as the OP - but I am not very skilled at most things practical. But I just take the simple line that if it works then any artistic merit is a bonus.

As regards the actual seat made - looks fine to me and is no worse - and could well be better - than those made at a Paul Kirtley weekend:



http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=98144

posts 6 and 17


And all of them are infinitely better than those 'made' by people who have never had a go (if that makes sense - there is a good saying/quote about people trying and at least having a go and not getting a perfect result being 'better' than those who never even try but I can't remember where I saw it on the forum)

 

[Harvestman]

The whole thread is sort of an in-joke, after the playful suggestion was made that Kepis should be kicked off the forum due to the quality of his spoons, which surpasses those of most ordinary mortals.

Thanks for all the comments folks.

 

[Everything Mac]

I decided against a sanded finish

Very good. Looks nice enough mate. I fancy making a bigger version and using it as a chopping block.

Andy

 

[bb07]

I love it! It's handmade and unique. There's no other exactly the same anywhere on earth

 

[Biker]

Nice one Mike!

And as Goatboy said: your Missus will chop bit off you when she reads that caption. Who needs a glamorous model? She's lovely! The unsanded finish comment made me laugh out loud too.

Milking stools have three legs so that they are self leveling on flat or uneven ground. Worth remembering that little factoid.

 

[Biker]

Incidentally if this thread is supposed to make the amateur woodworkers feel good about their modest efforts, then I'll be showing some leather work I'm currently ruining in a few days time.
Given up for tonight in frustration again.

Lee, Dreadhead, Angst and the like make it look effortless... :notworthy until you have a go yourself and then you realise they're probably in league with Lucifer! :aargh4:

 

[crosslandkelly]

until you have a go yourself and then you realise they're probably in league with Lucifer! :aargh4:

Satan, thy name is "PRACTICE". Woo hahar.

 

[Elines]

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And all of them are infinitely better than those 'made' by people who have never had a go (if that makes sense - there is a good saying/quote about people trying and at least having a go and not getting a perfect result being 'better' than those who never even try but I can't remember where I saw it on the forum)

Found it:

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

This was Ross Bowyer quoting Theodore Roosevelt

 

[Biker]

That's a good quote Elines, thanks. I'll keep at this leather working lark until I fall into the dust.

I wonder why it's always old statesmen and politicians who spoke such words of wisdom and therefore often get quoted, yet no recent politicians or statesmen seem to be? Maybe they lack that genuine integrity to sound as though they actually believe their own words?

 

[Andy T]

I like it .......ive made two just like this to sit plant pots on in the garden to raise them above the D.P.L (dogs peeing line).

 

[woodspirits]

I like it .......ive made two just like this to sit plant pots on in the garden to raise them above the D.P.L (dogs peeing line).

DPL