Time taken to complete project

[n0legs]

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[=Adam=]

I know this isnt answering your question....

But are you the same nolegs from UKFN?

 

[n0legs]

:|

 

[PeterBassett]

My first project, a nested step stool in oak, took 18 months.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

:lol: I've just thrown out something unfinished from school. I'm sixty in December.

 

[Dangermouse]

We all have to put up with wood changing over time, and unless you have a humidity controlled workshop, which isn't practicable its what happens. If you have parts for a project that might warp or change in your damp workshop, keep them in your house and take them to the workshop to work on and back to the house to store, if you have room that is or if you can have space for an air/damp tight storage cupboard in the work shop that would help.

 

[powertools]

I still have an unfinished nest of tables in the garage that I made at school and I am 62 in December.

 

[AndyT]

I took nine months to finish my Victorian design library step chair. (It's in the projects section. )

I'd like to be able to blame any problems on the materials, but the wood had been cut, converted and seasoned for a century or so before I got to it. So any oddities in the final dimensions and shapes were all down to me.

I did find that having started the project 'in public' and then getting encouraging comments on here did help me to get it finished.

 

[Harbo]

I've been making some clocks (metal ones) that I started about 5 yrs ago!

Rod

 

[custard]

Bruce Luckhurst, a well known cabinet maker and antiques restorer with a reputation for having a sharp and acid sense of humour, used to ask impatient trainees if they'd ever thought about taking up woodturning instead of cabinet making, as they could then see a finished piece of work within the hour!

 

[Sailormantom]

I've just finished 5 dining chairs I started in 1984. The sixth is still in stick (our kitchen only has room for 5 at the moment!)

Cheers, Tom

 

[johnf]

Small coffee table 5 hours

 

[Kev]

Might show this topic to my wife, at least she wont feel like she is the only one waiting for projects to be finished!!

 

[MMUK]

+1 lol

 

[Berncarpenter]

Bought my house almost 20 years ago to do up and sell ,still havent got the kitchen done but have built a nice garage-workshop to make it in.
Cheers Bern.

 

[n0legs]

:!:

 

[mailee]

I don't think I will comment on time taken on a project. :lol:

 

[MMUK]

Haha! When we bought our current house four years ago, my first priority was to re-roof the leaky workshop and kit it out. Ironically, I bought a load of ex MFI bankrupt kitchen units with the intention of doing our kitchen. Needless to say, I fitted them down one side and across the back wall of the workshop (hammer) The wife was none too impressed

 

[rafezetter]

:lol: I've just thrown out something unfinished from school. I'm sixty in December.

Phil.. you have just restored my faith - or at least made me feel much less guilty about one of mine that I just couldn't quite get the details "just so" until recently, and as I've only one chance to get it right because it's a remodel of another item of very difficult and costly to replace furniture, now I feel the four years for the right combination of ideas to come has been justified

We all have to put up with wood changing over time, and unless you have a humidity controlled workshop, which isn't practicable its what happens. If you have parts for a project that might warp or change in your damp workshop, keep them in your house and take them to the workshop to work on and back to the house to store, if you have room that is or if you can have space for an air/damp tight storage cupboard in the work shop that would help.

I've had the above project and associated wood "stored" in my front room for this entire time for this very reason, and other unrelated choice pieces of salvaged wood seasoning under my bed, and in the walkway, and behind the sofa...

 

[Tony Spear]

:lol: I've just thrown out something unfinished from school. I'm sixty in December.

Funny you should say that Phil - I'm 66 in January and I've still got an unfinished "Peanut Bowl" that I turned on a treadle lathe when I was at school, just needs sanding and a finishing coat and it's good to go!!!