Andyt (Jan 12, 2022), nova_robotics (Jan 12, 2022)
While watching that short video, in my head, I heard Paul Hogan as his Crocodile Dundee character say "That's nawt a screw; THEEECE is a SCREW!"
With my luck, I'd have to be changing those driving bits every other one. They just don't seem to last with me.
Should have had a hole in the top piece if he really wanted to keep them together. Western Red Cedar. Not exactly a difficult wood to drive a screw into. To me this basically explains the dearth in carpentry skills. That could be mortised and tenoned and pinned with dowels and never come apart. Heck you could even do a floating tenon in it and never come apart.
Doesn't that require a modicum of skill? I class myself as a wood butcher, but I know at lest that much. Wedging action of a screw will push parts away from one another if you don't drill a clearance hole through the board you want another board snugged up to.Originally Posted by mwmkravchenko
Bill
Well you may be a wood butcher. But you are indeed a smart wood butcher. And this guy in the video isn't.
Skill, not so sure. A drill, forstner bit and a sharp chisel and away you do. Tenon, skill saw and a few guide boards if you suck at following a line. Basic carpentry skills. I used to hinge a door faster than my boss could setup the fancy router template. Made him a bet. He didn't ask to many questions after that demonstration. Was a good guy to work for.
About the only woodworking I've done in the past, call it 48 years? Yeah, about right, was what you could call "rough carpentry." Very rough. I could probably do a little better these days, and I'm not quite as ADD as I used to be. Though my hands are shakier than they were only a few years ago, too. And I've learned to measure more carefully. Working with metal has been good for me.
Vision isn't as good as it was a few years ago, either, though, so it may be a wash. I have cataracts developing, and I'm loosing my close up vision. And I haven't had distance vision since at least the 5th grade. Maybe longer. Helped my decade younger wife get her cataracts operated on last March, and here nearly a year later her eyes still hurt, and she can't see distance OR close up. Used to be no distance vision at all, and not much close up vision. Only other woman who said I was handsome is my mom. She wanted distance vision so we spent $3400 for the surgery and fancy lenses. NO good. I was hoping later this past year, or early this year I could go get mine done. One thing I've learned, I've been wearing glasses for distance since the summer before 7th grade, and I'll continue to do so. And I may just wait until I have no choice.
Bill
mwmkravchenko (Jan 12, 2022)
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