Can someone please give me a virtual kicking?

Forbsie

Forbsie

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I decided that I'd better do some work on the boat today. I've had a full beam ready to be laid into the aft deck for ages. Decided to add a few marks to aid my sawing. Put them in upside down and promptly sawed off the bit I need!!!. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
I did this last weekend putting in a new plywood bulkhead. I measured out everything and marked it out to cut it, which i promptly did without hiccup. I then proceed to draw out and cut a smaller piece for something else. Guess which piece i cut it off? /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

I remember to write a tick or cross on the bits i need and dont need now! And of course, cutting things the right way round!
 
"Let he that hasn't made a daft mistake, cast the first stone!"

I imagine that probably leaves you completely safe. I've made a few great mistakes like that before. It's always dangerous to return to a job you started a few weeks before.
 
Worse still is that the piece that I could have scarphed in, I cut up last week and chucked it in the Squirrel! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
You are not alone - everybody has done the same (or a variation thereof) at some time or another - or many times....... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif especially me.

There was an excellent article in Wooden Boat some years ago by Gary Maynard who restored the lovely Scottish Zulu 'Violet' - and he comments on the number of new frames that ended up in the wood burning stove (instead of attached to Violet's floors) because he had cut the bevels the wrong way.....
 
Good and timely warning. I'm just making a pattern for "handed" side thwarts for my sailing dinghy.
Theoretically, I just have to turn the pattern over.................
 
Confession time? This morning, I managed to hash up a nice long piece of oak I was routing as a cockpit edging. I'm blaming the poor quality router. But then, it was an xmas prezzie, not one I bought myself.

On the other hand, I had a brainwave. What's wrong with pressure treated garden timber as internal structure? I've loads left over from the decking...
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Someone once told me that the true difference between an amateur and a professional is that the latter knows how to sort it out when it all goes wrong....

I aspire to being a thorough professional

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Deduct one beer token tonight and consider yourself more experienced,my son
 
As an "Engineering apprentice"
I remember a lathe opp Met-Viks "B Machine"
who turned a blade root in wheel of a 33,000 MW Genny 15 stage HP turbine rotor over size by 0.010" and thought he had scrapped the lot till the design lads came down from the D.O. and re assessed the blades for that stage.
Some one made the remark.
"Thats how to turn a bollix into an achievement". /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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