This is a thought I have been milking around in my head for many years. Maybe all my life. It is marks thread on “good enough: that stimulated or motivated me to throw this question out as I genuinely am interested with others experiences and thoughts as makers of various stuff but mostly fine furniture or meticulously made things of wood or any material for that matter.
So at hat point do you loose interest in a project.
The question is possed with my personal challenge or understanding of the question in mind but I fully expect others will bring a response form their perspective stimulated with maybe a different set of criteria than mine.
So the question is at what point do you loose interest in a project.
For me it’s simple but also as a maker of things for money a challenge I have to continually overcome.
I loose interest the moment “perfection” can not be achieved. My idea of perfection is real joinery, not dominoes, not biscuits, not splines. A fatal flaw of tear out that can’t be fixed and must be lived with “normally cuz the boss saiz so” a splotchy finish form a inexperienced finisher or swirl makes that’s it to late to get out. Crap materials the list could go on and on for me as a woodworker as the problem changes with each individual project.
But for me as soon as I feel like a better job can be done and for whatever reason I’m not in a position to do that “better job” I genuinely loose interest and have to push myself to completion on something that others wise I’d be chomping at the bit to do.
The second piece is generally once I show myself I can do something well to perfection and master it I tend to loose interest not feel the need to repeat it.
So for me the very deliberate choose to be a woodworker based on a moral that vocation consumes so much of ones life that making vocation one objective and the not the financial security most make decisions relating to work based upon. Well generally professionally as a woodworker that ideal at least in my case is constantly challenged. That challenge doesn’t make me want to do something else for a living “it makes me wan to find better work” but it does take away quite a bit of satisfaction. The satisfaction that so naturally comes on me making anything.
So does anyone else loose interest when they have to do sub par work, screw up and can’t just start over or whatever other reasons..