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08-14-2008, 09:28 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Florida/Alaska
Posts: 15
|  project time? Here is a question my wife asked me . What is the average time it takes to complete a project? I know a lot will depend on the amount of detail. But just a average guess. Thanks J |
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08-14-2008, 10:23 AM
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| Sawdust Maker  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 162
| Personally, it takes me forever it seems. Just not enough time it the day... Bobbi |
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08-14-2008, 12:21 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: New Jersey
Posts: 839
| What a question. Your right about the detail. I have spent as little as 10 minutes, including sanding and finishing, and as long a 20 hours to complete a single project. George
__________________ A day without sawdust is a day without sunshine. George delta 650, hawk G426 |
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08-14-2008, 12:45 PM
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| Pajaro Studio Dallas  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: If it ain't Texas, it Just ain't livin.
Posts: 1,319
| I have over 60hrs in one project I did. And have done as many as 5 in one hr. I don't think there is any answer to that question. 
__________________ Pajaro Pete Vermont Yankee in Texas Member " Scrollsaw Association of the world " Excalibur EX-21 fanatic One of the Chosen few "You can question the sincerity of almost all of the people in your life, but you don't question your dog's!" . |
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08-14-2008, 01:00 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Bellport, LI New York
Posts: 2,149
| I'm with Pete Not sure there is a single answere. The longest for me was the heron Intarsia about 20 hrs. Some other things take a couple of minutes.
__________________ Rolf RBI G4 Hawk, Delta SS350 Philosophy "I don't know that I can't, therefore I can" |
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08-14-2008, 01:00 PM
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| 1 Tin Soldier Rides Away  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Posts: 2,617
| As the others have said, that ain't no easy question. I'm forever getting my ambitions mixed up with my abilities and have been known to be guilty of saying "That'll only take a couple of hours", 5 hours later, I'm still mucking about.
__________________ Regards John "The Golden Mile" "Better to Die on your feet, Than live on your knees" Old Jungle Saying Retired Medically Unfit WA Police Officers |
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08-14-2008, 02:04 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Saltspring Island B.C. Canada
Posts: 564
| I spoke to a wood turner and he was asked the same question. He answered 12years . That is how long he has been turning wood . Roger |
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08-14-2008, 02:18 PM
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| MrsTrout's Husband  Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Hayward Calif.
Posts: 1,271
| I haven't added it up yet.... on my Troutbuilt truck that should be done this weekend, I've got something like 6 or 7 weeks and a couple hundred hours into it... Trout
__________________ Hawk G-4 Jetcraft Fish are food, not friends! |
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08-14-2008, 02:36 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 198
| HMMMMM, does this also include the time I set a piece aside with the attitude that I will finish it later? LMAO I have a box FULL of stuff I started years ago that I set away with this attitude that is still collecting dust (sawdust that is!). Some are just in need of glue-up, sanding and finishing but by Gawd I find other projects to do daily and it seems and the box just gets more full as time goes on. Some are items that just won't cut the mustard as far as Quality Control goes and trust me I am my own worst enemy when it comes to QC. (Ever get close to completion of a piece and spot a fault in the wood that you missed at start-up and decide to go no further? I have pitched several at this box due to my dissatifaction with the way the grains look!) Others are things I just grew tired of working on, others just got put aside due to special orders, seeing something else that just SCREAMED at me to cut NOW and forget my task at hand, or having a product sell well and need re-stocked. The list of excuses can go on and on but someday these items will get finished one way or another, whether it be cutting up the pieces and making new items, starting a fire or by actually completing the item as it was intended to be whence I started the darn things originannly! |
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08-14-2008, 05:51 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 500
| A puzzle of some 350 pieces takes me a total of 6 to 7 hours at the saw. I spend it in bite sizes of 20 to 30 minutes at a time and therefore finish a puzzle just about each week. Great phun..... Carter |
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