What I hate about woodworking...

[MilDoc]

Besides all the money spent on tools that would have bought at least 3 of everything I've managed to make so far.... Some hate finishing, all the sanding, application, etc. I actually enjoy that.

Making a few Adirondack chairs. Rough cut to size over 80 pieces, all marked by part number. Bunch thrown into the burn pile sine the wood is no good for anything. Joint one edge and one face. Then run all 80+ through the planer, anywhere from 2-5 passes each because rough cut red cedar is so variable in width and thickness. Finally ready to get on with the building! What I wouldn't give for nice S4S dimensional lumber!

So, what do you dislike the most?????

[twistsol]

Cleanup

Oddly, everything you described is what I love about woodworking.

It's cleaning up the messes I make that I really hate.

Chris

[Bruce Cohen]

Making the same mistake twice, on the last two matching pieces of cherry.

Also, faling again and again for great promises made about an expensive but worthless tool or gadget, of which I own more than I care to admit to.

Bruce

[crokett]

That I haven't turned my table saw on since May.

[wardprobst]

Wasting wood because of mistakes I made because I was thinking about some personal problem instead of letting it go and concentrating on what I was doing.
DP

[JSCOOK]

The fine dust that gets into everything because you didn't bother turning on the dust collector for only a "few" quick cuts ... ugh!

[Tom Hintz]

I actually enjoy processing wood, the jointing and planing to size because I know that work makes the rest of the project much easier, especially in terms of being accurate. What I don't like is buyhing pre-sized wood that is inconsistent in at least one of its dimensions and how that impacts joinery or the final fit of the project pieces. Processing the wood myself may take longer initialy but I know that pieces cut to the same length are going to fit as I want the first time. That is a big relief.
Now, sanding and finishing........I generally sand the projects, my wife goes over them with very fine paper just to be sure and she does most of the finishing to keep me from spraying everything white.

[kwgeorge]

Well I really enjoy woodworking and just about all the task associated with it. I do however hate using the thickness planer. Now granted mine is a rather old POS that I have an attitude about after it was returned from being loaned out but still it is such a PITA to get out and set up. It is LOUD, NASTY and just a general pain so yeah I guess I dread that part of the process.

Another issue that makes me crazy is scrap cutoffs. When making a project you end up with all these pieces that are just too big to throw away but not right to use in the project. I can’t bring myself to throw them away so I have all this scrap everywhere! In a very small shop such as mine this is a real issue as they will take over the shop in short order.

Ken

[wardprobst]

Ken,

Get a good planer, you won't regret it. I have a DeWalt which is about the best compromise of size, price & quality for me. It's amazing how my attitude improved after I got it and the Oneida DC...........
DP

[cabinetman]

Paul

Complain, complain, complain. You know better. It should be worded "What do you like the least about woodworking?" I would have to say thinking about the possibility of injury.



"I'M NEVER WRONG - BUT I'M NOT ALWAYS RIGHT"

[newood2]

Right now I'm in the process(18 months now) of seting up my basement shop, which consist of building stands, cabinets, jigs, shop layout, dust collection setup, etc. The thing I hate the most is planning, sitting down(hate it, I'm a hyperactive workaholic) with my head in my hands, with pencil and paper sizing up the project and finding the material.
Once I get over that stress, doing the hands-on from cutting to finishing is the joy of woodwork.

Howie

[Doug Jones]

The rising cost of wood.

[dkhoward]

There is very little I hate about woordworking ... . . I don't really mind cleaningup, or the dust or the danger . . . . all things that really make it what I do like .. . especially the part where a project is finished and I can look at it and say, I did that with my hands and my brain and my tools .. . .

Now, what I dislike is that I don't have a shop big enough to have a dedicated workspace for all the tools Iuse. I hate having to stop, put up one tool, clean up, then setup the next tool and make sure that I have everything planned so that I can do everything I need to do with that tool before I put it away to get out the next tool .. .

thats my gritch

[cgallery]

Sawdust. Everywhere. Basement shop, and I'm constantly trying to keep it it contained.

[L. D. Jeffries]

What I hate/love

What I do hate is finishing-so time consuming and sometimes strange results! But what I really love is everything else about woodworking. Getting the lumber (either cut down the tree and band sawing into lumber), taking it down to the right dimension for my project, planning and drawing up plans, cutting, putting it together, and most of all figuring out how to do what I need to do to make it all work. My view of woodworking; it is all a mental exercise from the initial idea, to designing, to how to do it! What a great way to keep your "gray cells" working.