i've got builders block

[runastav]

Guys, if its boring in the workshop dont tell the wife.! If you do, she come With a list of much more boring jobs
Runar

[LynnC]

What blew me away when I started reading this thread was when I saw Roger Fisher posted. It was a “Say What!!!!” moment......I didn't realize this was ancient history. Man what a character. Still miss his humor and enthusiasm for shooting and life.

[Daryl]

I did a double take as well, when I saw his post, Lynn. Yes - he is missed by all of us, I would imagine.
What a good, & friendly chap he was.
Centre of the picture, orange ALR teeshirt for the new guys- behind Taylor on the left and Bill Shipman on the right. Tom Curran right side back row, then Dave Rase, me, Eric V & Smylee G.
I think I got those right.

[LynnC]

Great photo Daryl. Thanks for posting.

[Cory Joe Stewart]

This is one of my biggest faults perhaps.  I always have a number of projects going at the same time.  I have ADD and so it actually works for me to work that way.  It generally works out ok for horns and bags but I struggle with rifles.  Especially if the project starts turning out not exactly how I wanted it.  I have a pistol that I started in October that has a bust out in the bottom of the lock plate.  I need to glue a slice in, but some days I just want to start it all over again, meanwhile it just lays there. 

Cory Joe Stewart

[smallpatch]

There is a crew of ne’er do wells if I ever saw one.

[greybeard]

Been there  got that t shirt.  Bob

[jerrywh]

Haven't had that problem on building a gun for about 45 years but have on engraving. Forget it for a while and it will come to you.  Your thinking too hard. The solution is usually easy.

[Ecramer]

I lurk here frequently, mostly to see the artistry so many of you bring to this craft. I"m not a builder unless you count a CVA caplock Kentucky I built when I was 14, back in the 1970s. I admire those who have "the hands." But I am a writer and I know what it is to have writer's block -- and when I have it I'm reminded of an inventor with hundreds of patents I saw interviewed on "60 Minutes." They asked him about his ideas and how he came up with them and his response was, "Sometimes, I sit and thing. Other times, I sit and think about thinking."

In other words, take a brief rest, do something unrelated, and come back to the task at hand. Blocks come from being hyper focused, which causes a loss of perspective.

[Bob Roller]

 In March of 2019 I made my last Hawken STYLE lock and it had an English style
3 screw bridle.In August I made my last flintlocks (2) on the L&R Durs Egg externals.
After the 2nd one was finished I decided to "hang it up" and make a few double set triggers
and nothing else.No "wall"or mental blocks that I can think of but whatever caused it,
I don't miss lock making and it hasn't hurt us financially.

Bob Roller

[oldtravler61]

  Well I differently have this problem. It all started with my last build for my grandson...little 36. Then I got a 38 barrel from Charlie Burton...an a trigger guard an butt plate from Jerry Eitner an triggers from both Bob Roller x 2 plus Ross Dillon...then the wife comes along with more honey dos an wallah...haven't touched it. Hopefully I will get it done before he turns 80....he's 2 now....!   Oldtravler

[elkhorne]

I have one that has been a 10 year roadblock! It was supposed to be a custom component set for my son as an early Lehigh. Well we should have gone with a Chambers kit gun and it would have been done years ago. As it is, the barrel inlet was half way done and I first wrestled with that. Then the barrel was supposed to be new but turned out to be a used one with staples, a touchhole and breechplug I have not ever been able to remove but have not given up on. I did finally get the breechplug shaped nicely and got a good inlet on it! a WIN! Then the lock was sort of inlet but very sloppily. I am getting it done now. And when I measured the web, I think the guy that did the ramrod channel, was scared of getting closer than 1/2” from the bottom of the barrel channel! Actually it appears to be about 1/4-3/8” and so the gun can never be very slim. I will take down every once of wood I can to reduce the forearm to what I can work down and warn him to not take the barrel out once finished. We would have been much better off, building from a plank and picking our components out ourselves! I am trying to get over the mountain now but it is very tempting to find something else to work on when reach that wall. I do not want to mess things up as one member said earlier, but recently watching Bill Raby’s series on building an Isaac Haines rifle, I have learned how to fix some of those “blunders” of the chisel or in my case the pre-shaper of the stock! Keep up the good work Bill, we are all learning from you!
elkhorne