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Do you suffer from "creeping anxiety" during some projects. By this I mean increasing anxiety as you get farther along in a project as you realize that your next cut/chamfer/rabbet if it goes wrong will turn countless hours of work into firewood? I had it happen this weekend as I was cutting a bevel on the back side of a table top. Running a 2'x4' glue-up on-edge through my job site saw was nerve wracking especially when standing the long side up and running it through the saw. A big auxiliary fence and help from LOML made it work and we still have all our fingers.

Yup and its not paranoia either, because its not just in your mind!
Confidence helps, but does not always save me...

Anyway PK your not alone!

eric

Yes, I have been there. With each project. I believe as the projects get bigger and bigger, each time trying to do more better, or with a new twist you feel it. That moment of "THE CUT, or THE ROUT"

For me its the new or the not so often cut or skill. Looking back the most simple task was that way, but as time goes on that anxiety seems to fade with in the context of some skills.


Your are not alone.


James.

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Yes I get that way to.

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Yes, I get that way but, for me, that is the excitement or thrill of it.
It is kinda like motor racing, if you aren't on the ragged edge, you aren't trying hard enough.
All those guys who say "NO FEAR" just aren't trying as hard as they should. If you arent scared of alot of things in life, you don't understand the game.

Rog

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Yeah, you're definitely not alone. I get that feeling all the time. In fact right now I'm working on a piece where I'm ready to cut up a 2' diameter chunk of maple burl with a crazy curvy cut and I'm more than anxious... funny how at times like this the idea of vacuuming the shop floor seems so imperative.

peter

My biggest fear is driving a screw up through the top, which is usually the last thing I put on the piece. And I have done it, I just won't tell you when!!

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Judt cuz your paranoid, doesn't mean you ain't gonna screw it up! LOL

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Yes, I get this too.

One woodworking book I read years ago had a good line in it. Something like this: "As you get better at woodworking you will still make mistakes. You will just get better at recovering from them".

My latest is that while building new cherry (read $$) cabinets for my kitchen I made the cabinet that goes over my microwave a half inch too wide. I found this out when I was just about to attach the face frame (yes, that's too big also). I left the shop because I was upset... A couple days later I went and knocked one side of the cabinet off, trimmed a half inch off the carcass and reattached the side. A few years ago I would have just made it into firewood or a nice shop cabinet.


-Alden

I hear a rumor once, that the Japanese when making anything (Woodworkers not Toyota). if it turns out perfect actually create a flaw...

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Creeping anxiety? Dang, my anxiety comes running up and slaps me in the forehead!

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Wow, I had no idea I was Japanese Not sure all my flaws are after the fact though.

You're not being paranoid if they really are after you!!

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IT happens to me when I don't have enough information. Just last night I just finished may latest CNC router for wood. Ahhh now to try it, here's the list of what I went through.

wood choice. scrap or what I really want

what size router bit. broke the small one, tried the large one, settled on the medium one. hummm too large for the pattern I was using

which pattern to try. complicated or simple

the machine works, the pattern/router bit combination-- while it worked, did not yield what I wanted

I found myself walking away from the project several times, not being able to decide how to proceed.

I did learn more, not enough yet to be happy with the results. I need to practice more on scrap, and just wait for anything useful to be done.

Heh I guess practice IS useful, maybe that's my problem. I sometimes need to take time to learn the skills required to make what I know I want to do.