My precioussssss........

[gus3049]

...I wonder if anyone else has the same problem I do!

Well, quite apart from that, I still find it really hard to part with some of the wood I turn. Is this just an amateur / professional thing or just a personality thing? It took me about nine or ten guitars until I could hand them over without a tear in my eye in spite of the stuff coming back in exchange

I strongly suspect that if it were just down to me, every cupboard, shelf, nook and cranny would be stuffed to the gunnels. As it is there seems to be a small build up in various places.

Fortunately, my wife is a practical soul and I strongly suspect that the old "it all goes or I do" might come into play.

For me, making things is a deeply personal pastime / profession and I put a lot of effort into it. I make what I would like to buy if I was the other side of the cash desk and the fact is that, unless you are production turning, each item is a one off. Maybe this has something to do with it.

Damn shame about having to pay the bills.

 

[tekno.mage]

It's not just you. I have similar feelings about the things I make, especially if I'm offering them for sale. I'm reluctant to part with certain pieces, but I do realise that life would be impractical with every surface & shelf in the house covered in turned objects!

My sense of reluctance is based around how "special' and interesting the piece of wood is and how much I like the finished item (ie would I have bought it for myself if someone else had made it?) Oddly, I have no qualms about giving away a favourite piece to a good friend that admires it! This may be related to the fact that I still get to see any items given to friends when I visit the friends!

I have no reluctance in parting with items that have been made for a commission, though - the fact that someone has asked me to make an item means that it was never really mine, it was theirs from the moment they commissioned it.

 

[OldWood]

There is a solution to this problem - you make one for yourself and then copy it, having found how to make it, for selling. I have several bits like that - and it does help to pay for all those toys that you simply MUST have as a turner! And then I do a production run of rattles - it really sharpens up your tool use.

Rob

 

[Lightweeder]

I think, a bit like painters and sculptors - the piece will always be yours. Even if someone pays you for it and takes it, it can never belong to them.

 

[Jonzjob]

If you tried to retrieve it then I wonder what the knik-kniks would say about you saying "Even if someone pays you for it and takes it, it can never belong to them."???

Once I have made something I decide that my baby has to make its own way in the world and I let it go with a little tear in my eye. The tear is for the money going to buy new toys for me to turn more 8) 8) 8)

 

[Wood spoiler]

If I am doing something to give away or as requested by someone - it is declared at outset, especially before SWMBO see's it and then it is "never mine", but I always take a photo - before it leaves home!

 

[Leo]

I just enjoy the process of making things, once it's made, I like it for a while, then see a fault ( every time ), it may be very minor, but I can see it. So it goes. May be just me, but it helps when I sell stuff !!

 

[gus3049]

then see a fault ( every time ), it may be very minor, but I can see it. So it goes.

Well I can understand that if it happens but what was 'a fault' again?

 

[Leo]

Sorry, I meant to say " a design element, that didn't coincide to other design elements of the masterpiece " !

 

[gus3049]

Sorry, I meant to say " a design element, that didn't coincide to other design elements of the masterpiece " !

Hmmm, I believe, in keeping with another thread on this 'ere forum, that it should be 'coincide with'

But then its a living language init?

 

[Jonzjob]

"Leo wrote:
then see a fault ( every time ), it may be very minor, but I can see it. So it goes.


Well I can understand that if it happens but what was 'a fault' again?

Sorry, I meant to say " a design element, that didn't coincide to other design elements of the masterpiece " !

Hmmm, I believe, in keeping with another thread on this 'ere forum, that it should be 'coincide with'

But then its a living language init?

Sounds more like a load of bulls hit to me? What your eally mean is that if there is enough in it for another bottle of red then it's gota go!

Correct?? Breedin ex-pat pros? You should really see what the hard life is like over in retirement, never knowing where the next bottles of red/rosé/white/Ricard/etc are comming from :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Mind you, I'm looking forward to the 'Exposition des Artisans de Village' at the end of next month. Shold be good fun being the only turner in the village...

 

[Leo]

I wish I could come up with a good answer to that one !!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Hudson Carpentry]

Im the same, hate parting with something I have made and proud off. I tend to just keep the first one if im to make more. Otherwise now I get over it.

 

[OldWood]

Mind you, I'm looking forward to the 'Exposition des Artisans de Village' at the end of next month. Shold be good fun being the only turner in the village...

John - has the year really passed since you last 'suffered' this experience ? I do seem to remember a story of a rather magnificent hangover ? (hammer) (hammer) (hammer)

Rob

 

[Jonzjob]

Me! Hangover? Never happen, well? That I ever remember anyway :mrgreen:

We had a 1/2 lamb delivered yesterday by a farmer wot lives up in the mountains North of us and when he saw some of my stuff he said that I was a real artist. I had a grass of beer in my hand at the time though, so I'm not totally sure just what he meant. I took it as a compliment 8)

Something else that I try to do my fair share of in the turning world. I try to turn my share of wine into water :roll: :roll:

I too photograph everything that I make, or try to. That is so that I have a pattern if I want to make more.