When to give up woodworking

When the dog in our shop looks like that.

Never so long as your breathing !!! that’s my opinion.
I have had many hobbies playing classical guitar /folk guitar watercolour painting, photography, etc ,etc ,etc , never has any hobby like woodworking woodturning machining where I have my workshops given me so much pleasure.I never grow tired of thinking of my woodshop or machining shop I dream about them read about them when I am not in them.The art and I think of it as art,of making things to your best ability and getting better has never flouted my interest at all .I am always constantly heart and soul there, even when I am not physically.
God bless and good new year to all. Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

I think it is more of a matter of what tools are no longer reasonable to use. There is always another form of woodworking. There is a good chance that there will come a time when table saws and routers don’t make sense, but scroll saws and other bench top power tools are likely to still be an option. Then there are all the woodworking crafts that only require hand tools…

-- Steve - Impatience is Expensive

Never! It is true the mind slows down , so does your body, but as you get older you realize, why hurry?

-- Terri, Rocky Mountain High Colorado!

Sras : what woodcraft require powertools ? :-)

I wuold say it was the other way around :-)

take care
Dennis

We are truly designed in our lives to reach a peak then slowly drift to a trough ,neither is unpleasent.I am only 59 but I am not they guy I was at thirty.And I am proud of it.I don’t need any longer to do it all today. Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

Ve get too old too soon und too schmart too late- Pennsylvania Dutch saying.
A senior comedian on the Comedy Channel said that he had been driving for 60 years and never had an accident. A lot of people behind him have, though.

When the thing inside the wooden box is you.

-- Billp

Good point Dennis – Power tools only make things happen faster – both the good and the bad. I can’t think of a thing that requires power tools – except for maybe very large works where the time savings is essential.

-- Steve - Impatience is Expensive

Billp, I think I like your definition the best.

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

When you have to cut between the two lines and there is only one.

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

When it’s no longer fun, enjoyable and interesting. Or when you pull my cold dead hand off that router.

-- Tom D

When it is more aggravation than pleasure!

-- Folly ever comes cloaked in opportunity!

There is ALWAYS something to do within woodworking to suit your skills and abilities. The questiion is, if you want to do those things and readjust to suit your mindset.
I work in the aged care industry and see many different people at many different levels of health and well being. I know of one lady who has recently turned 90 and has only just started playing with wood and carves. Not so good …yet, but for a 90 year old beginner, she is bloody marvelous!
Another person who has dementia just loves tinkering to feel as though he is doing something worthwhile. He tries to make toys for small kids. I really dont think they are particulary welcomed by the kids as they are well…. basic and not finished well. But he certainly gets a sense of achievement out of doing something.

So you see, it doesn’t matter how old you are but how you feel !

-- Theresa, https://www.facebook.com/derrymore/

when you get off to your tools n no longer your wife

-- M.K.