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General Category => General Scroll Saw Talk => Topic started by: CNLNC on March 14, 2011, 11:48:07 pm
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Finally was able to make some time this evening to start my next project. I printed, cut, glued and taped my pattern to my wood of choice. Then I went into the garage to drill my holes and thats where, as my wife would say, I had a blonde moment (and no I am not blonde). I drilled my first hole and it dawns on me that I just drilled into the wrong portion of the pattern...oops :o Lucky for me I kept my cool (a rarity), and had only drilled my first hole. I reprinted the same pattern and figured out how to place it over the old pattern with the existing hole in a more desirable location (looked through the pattern and wood into a light). TADA, project saved and the rest of the holes drilled in their proper locations in the pattern.
I need to remember like cutting wood ("measure twice, cut once), look twice before drilling my holes. Lesson learned. ;D
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It's hard to make designer firewood if you haven't even made a cut yet! I'm glad you where able to save your board!
I'm sure most of us have done that once or twice! ::)
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If that happens again and you can't rearrange, just get glue and sawdust mixed into a little paste and fill in that little hole ;)
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Like Steve has said" in woodworking if you can fix it then it never took place".
Louis
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Been there, done that.
I said stand up have you ever been there
Stand up identify
Stand up tell us about it
Stand up testify
:o :o :o
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I'm standing while typing
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!oot ti enod ev'I <--Speaking in tongues! :D
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Hey if it wasn't for mistakes what would I use for kindling ???
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Guilty as charged ... sometimes I have the "what the heck moment" when trying to remember if I am cutting out the white or the black part of the pattern.
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Standing.....lol
@ Marmoh I have had way to many of those times so do what I do take a sharpie and write cut black /white in an area that is not the pattern as a little reminder (I'd get started on it and the wife needs something done I do that and then I can't remember what I was cutting so that is why I started to do that)
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Been there done that only I had cut about 25 holes when I realized this was a cut the white pattern. Designer didn't give a heads up and I didn't bother to look ahead of time. I now check each pattern, just in case.
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Not me! I never make mistakes at the beginning of a project. I always wait until it is almost done to screw it up!
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On the current project with a little over 300 holes, I noticed the backup board was a little chewed up so I changed it. The new one was a little thinner. I have my drill press set so it just goes thru the board, saves time and effort. Yep, almost finished drilling and I discovered that none of the holes were all the way thru. Not my brightest move....
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Pencils are designed with erasers just so that you can erase a mistake. Once you make a cut, it's cut.
(my pencil doesn't have an eraser)
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I never make a mistake unless I am alone or with someone.
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I'm with ya Chuck, I usually drill 30 holes at a time, if I'm counting on that particular project, and have had that happen a couple of times when drilling... Slap my forehead, d'oooooh.... It makes you sit up and take notice for the next one...
Bruce ;D
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While doing intarsia projects, I started out too timid on shaping. I have since got more agressive, but too much sanding and you can't glue sawdust back onto the piece.
Denny
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I never make a mistake unless I am alone or with someone.
LMAO, me either Judy ::) ::) ::)
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Standing.....lol
so do what I do take a sharpie and write cut black /white in an area that is not the pattern as a little reminder
OK so now you'll never know which to cut after writing cut black/white. LOL
Just couldn't stop myself. I see humor in nothing/everything.
gabby
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Standing.. hanging head in shame ... ::) .. Sheila
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MOST DAYS I MAKE MY FIRST MISTAKE RIGHT AWAY IN THE MORNING. ITS CALL GETTING OUT OF BED.
ITS A GOOD THING WOOD IS A RENEWABLE RESOURCE SO WE CAN START OVER.
I HAD I GUY FAX ME A PATTERN THIS MORNING WHICH WAS A LYBRITH PATTERN. IT WAS JUST A LINE DRAWING AND HE ASK IF I COULD CUT IT.
NATURALLY I SAID YES BUT STARTED LOOKING CLOSER AT THE PATTER AND CALLED HIM BACK AND TOLD HIM TO COLOR IN THE PARTS HE WANTED CUT OUT SO I WOULD KNOW WHAT SIDE OF THE LINE TO CUT ON.
I GOT A HECK OF A COLD AND TAKING MEDICINE SO IF THIS DOENST MAKE SENSE THAT IS WHY
KENDALL
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Judy..you know we never make misteaks!
It is the attack of the "Wood Gremlins"!!!
~~~GB~~~
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Sooooo relieved to know I am not the only one to look down and see a woops. I think we are all in good company.