08-06-2024, 08:35 AM in response to #51612
Jesus was a carpenter you know
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08-06-2024, 08:35 AM in response to #51612
Jesus was a carpenter you know
![]() ![]() 08-06-2024, 08:51 AM in response to #52141 08-06-2024, 09:05 AM (This post was last modified: 08-06-2024, 09:05 AM by Leeds Sandgrounder.) in response to #52146 08-06-2024, 09:15 AM in response to #52150 Uptheshots Wrote: Could you make a bed Kev? No, sorry but I don't use that kind of wood in my workshop. You find the older a machine gets, the more particular it is too, and the trick to this shizzle is keeping the machine's happy as a happy machine does a better job on straight edges & lines, and I pride myself on my straight lines. 08-06-2024, 09:18 AM in response to #52153 Kev-YCFC Wrote: No, sorry but I don't use that kind of wood in my workshop. I thought you went to great lengths to avoid pride? 08-06-2024, 09:26 AM in response to #52157 Leeds Sandgrounder Wrote: I thought you went to great lengths to avoid pride? I've taken pride in my work for many years before the rainbow flag was abused to denote the word. I was brought up to take pride in what I did, as in 'if a job's worth doing it's worth doing properly' and it takes roughly the same time to make something right as it does to make it wrong. And I have standards which even my mates will take the piss out of me for and if I don't like the look of something you can be sure it'll be in the scrap bin in by the next day. 08-06-2024, 09:33 AM in response to #52162 Kev-YCFC Wrote: I've taken pride in my work for many years before the rainbow flag was abused to denote the word. Most people think it is better to make stuff that falls apart or doesn't perform the function it was designed for, so fair play to you for bravely swimming against the tide!!! 08-06-2024, 09:49 AM in response to #52163 Leeds Sandgrounder Wrote: Most people think it is better to make stuff that falls apart or doesn't perform the function it was designed for, so fair play to you for bravely swimming against the tide!!! Folk will still be playing my amps a couple of decades after I'm dead but they won't make me rich, my carpentry will outlive me too but I'm slow as my machines are old & I've taught myself how to use them from ametalworkers pov so won't make me rich, my steam engine guys are dead and gone and their railways scattered around the country where they can get the same parts made to the same drawings by someone else, I'm faster and better with metal as it's my 'thing' but with few 'customers' left I'm not making much from it, and the bits I do do aren't what I'd choose, cars need a computer for most diagnostics these days so apart from doing the odd sets of brakes I'm out of that game too, with the 'sorn' you don't find cars sat around broken waiting for a wise guy to knock and make an offer so that's gone. So carpentry it is for now, and if nothing else it'll give me summat to chat to my dad about in the next life ![]() |
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