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Sep 4, 2022Liked by Doctor Hammer

Happy Birthday!! šŸ˜

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Sep 4, 2022Liked by Doctor Hammer

I'll make knives if I want to

You can leave your friends behind

'Cause your friends don't like knives

And if they don't like knives

Well, they're no friends of mine

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Best song about a knife is still from Space Ghost:

I'm a knife

Knifin' around

cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut

But now I have

"You can knife if you want to,

You can leave your friends behind.

Cause your friends' don't knife

and if they don't knife,

well, they're no friends of mine"

running on repeat in my head :D

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Delightful to share your joy in these endeavours. After a lifetime of avoiding ā€˜diyā€™ I discovered, 2 years ago, that I love doing rudimentary things with wood. Along with the meadow project, of which you know. Next ā€˜projectā€™ is a wood store frame. Keep doing your thing šŸ’Ŗ

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You had better share some pictures and process of that wood store frame! Wood always frustrates me a bit, but it is something I really appreciate. Good carpentry is just so impressive, perhaps in part because I know I would have accidently split the piece or ripped a chunk out of an end four or five times to get the result :D

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Youā€™re right about good carpentry. I donā€™t do good carpentry. Or even, really, carpentry. I cut things & screw them into a vague semblance of something I want ā˜ŗļø

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Baby steps man, baby steps :D It isn't so much the end product that matters, but the things you learn along the way that make you think "The next time I do this, it will be so much better." That, and a whole lot of Youtube videos, will have you making some really cool stuff in no time, and having fun while cursing through a haze of saw dust :D

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