It all seems a little silly, three weeks in the shop, in the freezing (mostly sub-freezing) cold, bundled up so you can't put your arms down (just think Randy from Christmas Story) sawing wood that at eight percent moisture is more likely eight percent ice. Planing wood so temperamental you have to hone your plane irons every ten to twenty minutes, boards that started out at 4/4 are a little closer to 3/4 now. Sweat does freeze to metal and skin freezes to ice even when it's made up of sweat. But if you use the tool long enough it warms to your hand, becomes comfortable, true again...
or is that just the frostbite talking?
All this work for a board that looks like you got it at the B.O.R.G. store. It's really kind of a downer...
But then it becomes yours again, mark those tails...
use them saws...
learn a few new tricks from some guy who started something called the Schwarz Effect...
chop...
don't forget where you started...
and don't be surprised how fast you can do joinery by hand!
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