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So stiff from yesterday in the shop and then hula! The drive seems extra long without friend and/or family!
I'm pretty excited about what I'm doing at home (what's new?)....but solving ukulele challenges is good for me. I just hope after the first few from scratch I'll have instruments that "sing" just when you tap them. It will be awhile, checking out the different woods and thicknesses....I wish I had some finished ones already!
Shop tools are so cool but the table saw and chop saw can take off fingers and hands and I'm pretty fearful of them. Lucky for me, the people I can call and e-mail tell me of jigs to make to keep me safe in my hobby/someday my JOB!
I wear ear protection and need to remember a mask because, of course, I'm allergic to sawdust. Although I vacuum afterwards, there is still the fine dust on everything, everywhere! Some tools have a bag that catches the shavings, and that really helps, but eventually I'll need an air filtering system.
Everything seems so expensive. The supplies for a single ukulele in average grade koa cost $155 and then it takes 2 weeks to build an instrument!! So, that is the reason that a simple concert sized one costs over $400!! Tenor ukuleles run $500 and up. If you look at Kanile'a Ukuleles they are quite fancy and pipi'i wale no (high pricey!).
On the way home last night I heard a blerb on the radio that says they have scientific proof that multi-tasking is detrimental (bad) for your memory! No wonder mom's seem like crazy people! The advice was to work on projects and finish them one at a time. According to the study, shifting brain gears from one thing to the next and back again later will lose you time and energy and nothing will be finished. Oh, so that's my problem?? I try to do this, but when I lose interest in a project, with MY personality, I have to walk away, or else it's like beating a dead horse trying to get something done that I don't have the heart or motivation for!
On the other hand, I'm spending the summer finishing unfinished projects and trying not to begin new ones (except for the couch pillows and cushions...and that blouse I cut out a few weeks ago...ha!). I am my own worse enemy!!--Leona
I'm pretty excited about what I'm doing at home (what's new?)....but solving ukulele challenges is good for me. I just hope after the first few from scratch I'll have instruments that "sing" just when you tap them. It will be awhile, checking out the different woods and thicknesses....I wish I had some finished ones already!
Shop tools are so cool but the table saw and chop saw can take off fingers and hands and I'm pretty fearful of them. Lucky for me, the people I can call and e-mail tell me of jigs to make to keep me safe in my hobby/someday my JOB!
I wear ear protection and need to remember a mask because, of course, I'm allergic to sawdust. Although I vacuum afterwards, there is still the fine dust on everything, everywhere! Some tools have a bag that catches the shavings, and that really helps, but eventually I'll need an air filtering system.
Everything seems so expensive. The supplies for a single ukulele in average grade koa cost $155 and then it takes 2 weeks to build an instrument!! So, that is the reason that a simple concert sized one costs over $400!! Tenor ukuleles run $500 and up. If you look at Kanile'a Ukuleles they are quite fancy and pipi'i wale no (high pricey!).
On the way home last night I heard a blerb on the radio that says they have scientific proof that multi-tasking is detrimental (bad) for your memory! No wonder mom's seem like crazy people! The advice was to work on projects and finish them one at a time. According to the study, shifting brain gears from one thing to the next and back again later will lose you time and energy and nothing will be finished. Oh, so that's my problem?? I try to do this, but when I lose interest in a project, with MY personality, I have to walk away, or else it's like beating a dead horse trying to get something done that I don't have the heart or motivation for!
On the other hand, I'm spending the summer finishing unfinished projects and trying not to begin new ones (except for the couch pillows and cushions...and that blouse I cut out a few weeks ago...ha!). I am my own worse enemy!!--Leona
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