Making the Olympic Rings out of a segmented assembly. 30" rings and 3 layers (2 1/4" thick). Took me weeks and dozens of hours. It was just a party decoration (a huge one!). I could have just cut the outline from a sheet of 1/4" plywood and no would would have noticed. As I told my friends "A complete waste of time". Now it's stored in the rafters of my garden shed.
I once started to make a wind generating propeller from a clear piece of 2”x 6” clear yellow cedar. I found plans with offsets in a Mother Earth book and got underway in my shop one Saturday morning. When I went home for lunch I had one half just about perfect. I went back at it after lunch and it was a good hour before I noticed that I had two leading edges on the same side ……. 🙄😝 It spent several weeks on my burn pile grinning at me but I had the last laugh …. And a great bonfire party as I remember. 🤣😂
The early bird gets the worm but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.
I would say - imitating Japanese masters, starting with zero experience and no Mentor. In Japanese culture, there are three stages of learning (or possibly four)- The first, is just soaking up information from those who know more than you do. The second, is imitating the Masters. The third, is a combination of the first and second, for a very long period. The fourth, is when the Master is humble and knows there is still more to learn.
After 13 years of tripping over all the fruit that has fallen off my fruit trees here in downtown Churchill, much like many years ago at this different address, but here rotting on the ground (far too many to pick), I decided to buy myself a still, like I had at the old residence, to make some shine... about a 20 apricots, nectarines and peaches fruited this season! Looks like no rocket fuel this year.
The apple trees seem to have worked... anyone know a good recipe for cider?
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
