Fuck wood.
I'm in the fucking Wood Tech class, and i hate it! Not the class but the material specifically.
It never dies. Even when it's been sitting out for 100 years it still grows and shrinks with the humidity. Each face has to be cut differently, and if you don't plan everything out perfectly, it has a nasty way of telling you to fuck off via a
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Well, that's its nature. You gotta seduce it into the shape you want, and even then, it has to be the shape it wants as well. This is something I only learned after years of whittling and why, to this day, I prefer working in clay and resin.
Hang in there. You've mastered metal, you can handle wood.
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Taken out of context, this sentence is just all kinds of strange.
Pertaining to wood...this is what makes buying a guitar such a pain in the ass. The wood affects both acoustic AND electric guitars in huge ways. If you buy one online, it's like guitar roulette.
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But only because I can certainly relate.
The sculpture room in the Art Department is so dry that you must clamp it to the tables OR ELSE! it will warp and we can't use it because it will fly off the saws and kill us in the face.
Even so, I still like wood better than metal.
So there.
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