Thanks MissKitty..
you reminded me of woodwork. You see, as a sprog, I was never really given a project. As a young boy of 13-14, I was obsessed with two projects of my own - (1) Smashing Mill windows (2) Shagging virgins. Luckily, there was an abundance of Mills in Manchester around that time.

Anyhoo.. one of those radical teachers of the day, probably been watching too much Grange Hill, thought it would be a great idea to give us young aspiring thieves, rapists and drug dealers a "project". He was a woodwork teacher, and he thought it great if we could all have free reign over the workshop and use whatever materials we wanted to make an animal of our choice.

That was easy for me. I got a piece of 2x2, sharpened each end to a point, stuck four bits of dowling on it. Et voila - a crap crocodile.

My mate however, went OTT. He got different woods, with differing colours and grains, glued them together to make a large "liquorice allsort" sort of woody block. He then carved the most wonderful upright cat out of the block.

Every week, he chisled it, he sanded it, and when fully shaped, he spent weeks putting thin layers of varnish on it, building up into a wonderful gloss.

The light woods and dark woods reacted, and this looked like a very professional piece of art.

He was probably only 2 coats of varnish away from completion, when we put the cat's head in a vice and dismembered it with a good twatting from a bloody great mallet.

It didn't pay to have talent.
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 9:14, 4 replies)

Thanks
for the reference and complient.
I'll take 'em where I find 'em.

Click for you!
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 10:11, closed)

:(
that's so sad
(deadly_sinners, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 11:24, closed)

having had my fair share of coursework or projects mislaid or damaged by others...
... I can say with absolute certainty, without even a hint of Internet Hard-man Syndrome, that I would have taken somebody's thumb had that happened to me. I have anger problems ;)
(keyboardman, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 14:28, closed)

You're Piggy ...
from Lord of the Flies, aren't you.
(Que?, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 6:30, closed)