11-06-2012, 09:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-06-2012, 09:41 AM by Radio Fixer.)
Well, you are right Colin most things are possible if someone, with reasonable coordination between brain and hands, wants to. And the key words here are "wants to". It is possible for most to learn hand and even machine tool skills if the desire is there. Of course you are vastly better prepared if you used hand tools as a child (my Dad was a carpenter and let me make things as a really young kid) and served an Apprenticeship. In one of these you learnt them from experts, a little at a time, small task by small task, eventually building up to major work. I think you dismiss this advantage too lightly.
Giving someone, who has worked a desk most of his life, a falling apart radio cabinet, for example, and expecting him to make new pieces, put it back together and refinish it to a good standard isn’t going to happen. It might if he took years and played with simpler items first, building up to “major work”. Effectively he will be doing an apprenticeship and getting some of those years of experience you and I have gained since. Then he might not be daunted, make a start and actually produce a successful result.
Another thing, I think, is that not everyone has coordination between brain and hands. I have seen desk types with a screwdriver and had to walk away it was so painful. But I have seen complex formula spreadsheets that they have produced that someone with no computer skills would take years to produce, if ever.
I have wished many times in my sporting endeavours, that really good brain, eye and hand coordination were easy to acquire. They aren’t: you have it or you don’t and hours and years of practice never made me competitive with those to whom it was natural.
Thanks for the kind words said about my efforts and if some of my articles were inspirational to you, it made them well worth the effort to produce.
cheers Gary
Giving someone, who has worked a desk most of his life, a falling apart radio cabinet, for example, and expecting him to make new pieces, put it back together and refinish it to a good standard isn’t going to happen. It might if he took years and played with simpler items first, building up to “major work”. Effectively he will be doing an apprenticeship and getting some of those years of experience you and I have gained since. Then he might not be daunted, make a start and actually produce a successful result.
Another thing, I think, is that not everyone has coordination between brain and hands. I have seen desk types with a screwdriver and had to walk away it was so painful. But I have seen complex formula spreadsheets that they have produced that someone with no computer skills would take years to produce, if ever.
I have wished many times in my sporting endeavours, that really good brain, eye and hand coordination were easy to acquire. They aren’t: you have it or you don’t and hours and years of practice never made me competitive with those to whom it was natural.
Thanks for the kind words said about my efforts and if some of my articles were inspirational to you, it made them well worth the effort to produce.
cheers Gary
