Maybe we could start a 12 step program for Woodguy's Disease! Could hold our meetings @ Klingspor or Woodcraft, eh? How about these? (BTW - I intend NO disrespect towards AA or the seriousness of alcoholism. This is meant solely for bringing a smile to the faces of fellow woodworkers.)
12 Steps of the Woodguy's Disease Program
1. Admit we are powerless over Woodguy's Disease--that our shops can become unmanageable.
2. Believe only the LOML (a power greater than ourselves) can restore us to sanity.
3. Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of our shops.
4. Make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to using only the tools we currently have.
5. Admit the exact nature of our wrongs - that at one time the tools we have were the "biggest boys on the block" .
6. Are entirely ready to remove all defects in our projects from use of cheap, imported power tools - manually if need be.
7. Humbly ask to replace our underpowered tools in a carefully thought out, planned and fiscally responsible manner.
8. Make a list of all unfinished projects we started just as an excuse to buy more tools.
9. Make immediate amends and finish such projects, except when to do so would tempt us to buy more tools.
10. Continue to take shop inventory and when we needlessly bought "more power" promptly admit it.
11. Seek through prayer and meditation true knowledge of what we NEED (not want) and the will power to stick to it.
12. Having had an awakening as the result of these steps, we will try to carry this message to other woodworkers on NC Woodworker.