How many spend more time on woodworking forums than working in the shop?
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How many spend more time on woodworking forums than working in the shop?
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Guilty as charged but in my defence it's +3C in my shop right now and +20C on my couch with a nice fireplace burning.
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Not in the shop lately, but dealing with wood outside.
So no, more working than typing.
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Some weeks, until I start an interesting project. Too much other life in the way. Going to work in the shop requires a minimum commitment of a few hours, and thats getting harder to come up with. Reading this and other non-w'working forums only takes a few minutes as part of my morning routine.
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I sort of have to work in the shop, as it is my income source. My shop time is anywhere from 2 to 10 hours on a typical day, or occasionally more or less that that. So far this month I've made 7 banjos and a guitar, and I started on a fiddle today. Time spent on here probably averages about 10-15 minutes a day, at a guess, and I'm not on any other woodworking sites, though occasionally I visit them after a search to find out about a used machine I am looking at, or something like that.
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I'm putting together a gara-shop.
Where I currently do 90% of actual woodworking (which mostly has been making shop furniture) is the JC WW class which I take 2 eves a week, 4 .5 hours each class day (Tues and Wed = 9 hrs).
So maybe a max of 20 hours a week... the othe 11 hours is spent making drawings or doing sanding and glue-ups, or small routing/drilling.
So yes, I probably spend more time on forums (not just this one) in a week than I do WW. Also I spend time on YT vids (mostly WW ones)
"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing.
It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
Ha-ha-ha. I probably hit the forum at least once a day. However, since retiring I hit the shop . . . a lot.
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I try to spend at least a couple hours a day there. Sometimes I get more and sometimes I get nothing. I love love love my radiant floor heat though. Besides keeping it at a steady 60-62 with having the tractor out a lot lately clearing snow and going out a few hours later and almost all evidence is gone. No squeegeeing water out.
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That was probably true when I had a full time job, now my shop time exceeds my computer time by a good 10:1.
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100% of time on computer
have ended up with some nice planes from James Spangler
Shop time has been non existent for too long,
Ron
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does watching Red Green on you tube while in the shop count?
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Its about equal. 30-45 min M-F on forum and 4-5 hours in shop on Sat
It varies. Right now I don't have any projects going on in the shop. I read a lot more here since became a moderator.
Some days, an hour or less. Recently 2-3 hours per day.
Last edited by Lee Schierer; 01-19-2024 at 11:11 AM.
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I’ve not been able to be in the shop since July, but getting there..
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That sums it up nicely.Originally Posted by Stan Calow
I got into 3D printing a year or so back, which has sucked up a lot of my remaining creativity. (Not that I've had a lot of that lately anyway.)
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"Design"? Possibly. "Intelligent"? Sure doesn't look like it from this angle.
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