Well I did get stuff done! I have the pegs ready for the decorations and got the back ready to glue on. I filled in the chunks of the belly that broke out when I cut the f holes. Now I'm gluing on the back. These are some funky clamps I made up a couple years ago. They do work, but not as well as I imagined. I like the idea of the Herdim clamps that run $400 a set, but $400 a set!!!! I designed these to be set like a wedge thinking that it would be fast and easy, it isn't either. You squeeze them to get the pressure on the joint, then push the wedge in and it's done. Unless it moves, or slides away, or whatever it does so it doesn't stay tight. I can get them set right, but it isn't easy. I put glue on both the ribs/blocks and the back. let that dry and clamp it up. At this point it doesn't have to fit really tight. Then I take off two clamps at a time. Put a knife with hot glue in the joint and put the clamps back on. In other words, I do it pretty much normally. Imagine that.
I was thinking today about how the "hot" jobs we do at work would be priced at a premium at an outside tool room. The standard cost at least doubles when the part is needed immediately. The high cost should make the company change their practice and have spares on hand to save premium pricing. The same holds true in your life. Things we do that are against God we do at a cost, a high cost. If the cost wasn't high we might say, "Hey, lets do that again. It was wrong but we didn't get in much trouble." If God didn't put a cost on sin would we ever learn not to? Once we learn of the high price of sin, we should repent and do what ever we can not to do it. Learning to rely on God instead of ourselves is the same thing. He'll let us try for a while, then before the hole we are digging gets too big says "Stop. Let me do it."
If we've learned anything we will let him.
Just noticed my link for the song on the last post wasn't there...it is now.
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