[TheForge] Re: guardrails and handrails

[Charle B Vincent]

Yeah , well to give Andy his due, there is still a skill in caclulating 
the base hours and then figuring an "acceptable" ( theres the art) 
amount of fudge for cockups and great ideas thathas to be backed by the 
hardnose discipline of saying when and meaning it.

Charles

Gladish Family wrote:

>>Hate to bust your bubble here Andy, but blacksmithing and software are
>>still more art than not, so they are never done.  In both, it seems your
>>perceptions of the task at hand change in the doing of it and your best
>>ideas happen three quarters of the way through the job.     They both
>>will expand to fill the available time.   The real skill is in the
>>knowing when to say no more and the having the discipline to act on it.
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>Since looking at sites like "theforge" and so on involves both software and
>blacksmithing, look out. It'll suck up your time like a Shop Vac.
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