Why is education so painful?

[eagle24]

Started inletting a lock and should have taken the lock panel area down a good 3/16" more than I had.  Thought I was gonna reach China before the bolster made it to the barrel.  Ugh!  Live and learn.  Guess I won't ever do that again.  The memory will be forever etched in my mind.   

[skillman]

"Experience is dear teacher and a fool learns by none other."   Funny, when I'm in the shop even the mistakes are enjoyable.

Steve

[Rich]

3/16th more wood to remove, while painful, is a lot better than 1/16 too little wood on the panel. That would be painful.

[Majorjoel]

  I have a PHD from the School of Hard Knocks. Graduated at the top of the class. Tuition has been expensive and the degree will almost buy a cup of coffee along with a two dollar bill at the corner donut shop.  

[mjm46@bellsouth.net]

Yes, but the lessons learned are learned well and not forgotten.

[Mike Brooks]

That's how I learned everything.

[Acer Saccharum]

Yup.

[Eric Krewson]

Try leaving an extra 1/2" of wood while fitting an English fowler butt plate to "practice inletting" on. Well over a month to finally get everything in and right, live and learn.



Now I find my stock blank wasn't completely seasoned and the metal is sitting proud of the wood. I am going to let things sit for a year or so for the wood to dry out and "get some practice" inletting the butt plate again.

[Hungry Horse]

 Gentlemen, this is exactly why our generation understand the value of a lesson well learned the hard way. The new generation that is not allowed to fail, have to keep learning it over, and over, again. JMO.

                      Hungry Horse

[Dennis Glazener]

Started inletting a lock and should have taken the lock panel area down a good 3/16" more than I had.  Thought I was gonna reach China before the bolster made it to the barrel.  Ugh!  Live and learn.  Guess I won't ever do that again.  The memory will be forever etched in my mind.   Cheesy

   
I also learned that the hard way. Not only much longer time to inlet I ran into the problem of the plate fitting perfectly at the top but as it went deeper the wood to metal fit suffered! Same for buttplate extensions. Now I try to take the wood down to where I have a max of 1/16" above the metal, preferably 1/32"
Dennis

[Bob Roller]

EDUCATION!!? It's a threat to stupidity.At least that was the impression I was given
when we moved to WV in 1946 from Chicago.A little boy that was good at math,liked to read
and at that time was fairly fluent in German was a PITA to his peers whose main goal was
to get an old Ford and a job at a gas station and quit school at 16.Education indeed.

Bob Roller

[Don Getz]

My brother Dick, the philosopher.   One of his profound statements  "god screwed up, sex should have been something that
you had to LEARN how to do".  Think about it..........Don

[flehto]

Don...please elaborate....Fred

[mark esterly]

I'm right there with your brother Don.  no elaboration needed here. my vote is to leave it a mystery

[Flint62Smoothie]

"Experience is a tough teacher ... for she she gives the test 1st, with the lesson to follow ... "

[Hungry Horse]

The long, and short, of it is "stupid should hurt" so you don't do it again.

              Hungry Horse

[whitebear]

Yes, but the lessons learned are learned well and not forgotten.

Ant that the truth.