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I love this apprentice blog - it’s great to see things from both sides (teacher and student). I am loving to see Kale’s progress. Especially since we moved houses and I can’t get my garage cleared out enough to set up my shop!
I am curious though, how do you spray finishes in the cold months?
With parts and drawings, one still needs to puzzle out the order of operations, and my experience is that's where the learning happens and small errors multiply. Best of luck!
Working at production speed is something that many of my students struggle with. It's a bit of a wake up call when they get on a jobsite and see how quickly they should be moving but that's part of the process as a student/apprentice. "Here, learn this skill... Okay, now let's do it quicker and more efficiently... Now let's do it at production speed..."
I would guess that at Kale's age, they were pretending to not know what pure grain alcohol is.
Those who have been building stuff for a long time forget how complicated a plan can be. Even one as simple as a sawbench. But it's tough when the whole thing is new. Like most things it becomes second nature after some repetition.
Same way we do in the summer.
We take the project outside. Spray it. Bring it inside ASAP to cure. We keep the spray gun in the shop to maintain temperature.
I think that's the next T-shirt slogan:
“Wood hates you and wants you to die,” Megan reminded me.
The whole sentence please!
The blog is great.
I love this apprentice blog - it’s great to see things from both sides (teacher and student). I am loving to see Kale’s progress. Especially since we moved houses and I can’t get my garage cleared out enough to set up my shop!
I am curious though, how do you spray finishes in the cold months?
With parts and drawings, one still needs to puzzle out the order of operations, and my experience is that's where the learning happens and small errors multiply. Best of luck!
Working at production speed is something that many of my students struggle with. It's a bit of a wake up call when they get on a jobsite and see how quickly they should be moving but that's part of the process as a student/apprentice. "Here, learn this skill... Okay, now let's do it quicker and more efficiently... Now let's do it at production speed..."
I would guess that at Kale's age, they were pretending to not know what pure grain alcohol is.
Those who have been building stuff for a long time forget how complicated a plan can be. Even one as simple as a sawbench. But it's tough when the whole thing is new. Like most things it becomes second nature after some repetition.
I am happy to pay for the posts. Getting something of value for nothing has never inspired me.