B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for May 31, 2020

Warranty expired.

Just be glad that wasn’t a multi-million dollar diamond.

I think that everyone who does crafts finds themselves in that position. Some nights everything moves right along. Other nights you quit early after deciding you’ve done enough damage for one night.

…and to think that if he would have left it alone, he would have invented the first studded tire. What a shame.

Almost perfect up until then, though. Thereby showing the dangers of excessive perfectionism.

(I have to fight it daily, what with being so close to perfect myself.)

I finally quit fighting my own perfection – now I live with it. Others have a tough time with it, though.

One “tink” too many.

An old saying – " if it ain’t broke , don’t fix it "

Must have had a hidden flaw. Good thing it didn’t break while he was riding it.

That’s what comes of overtinking things!

“Do you mind not being a MOTOR ???”

On tink too many.

One tink too many.

What about the Strawberries ?

I could believe that the hammer is a homemade implement, but that chisel actually looks like a railroad spike. You don’t suppose … nah, it couldn’t be.

It was an imported rock

annnnnd, man’s invention of the wheel is set back a few more hundred years.

Boy that’s me in every plumbing project. It’s the last little tweak that creates a leak.

He over tinked it

Could have just made it a grocery cart wheel.

In the 90s I used to work part time at the local hardware store. One of my functions was window repair. I remember this one aluminum door window frame was in really bad shape but after struggling for about an hour I was able to get a new piece of glass installed. I just had to give the corner screw one more turn…CRACK! I was so POed I picked up a hammer and smashed the remaining glass into a million pieces. I still remember the look on one of the sales girls face when see came back to see what all the noise was about. We still laugh about it to this day.

I see the mistake he did. It needed double the foofing time for the foof to take effect.

That last strike was too much for the wheel to bear….sigh

The best laid plans ….

Yup. This is a good example of when quality control gets is right and wrong at exactly the same time.

One of the hardest things to learn in oil painting is “when to stop”!

“I told you not to tinker with that!”

A tink too far.

You got to know when to stop!

LOL! The story of my life!

Yep, there’s always that one just not enough and one one too many isn’t there?

And that is what you get for buying Firestones.

His seed went on to be diamond cutters who invented baguette cut.

This might sound strange, but I actually read all the comments to see how long it took for someone to point out that you do NOT make a stone wheel that way. No one made the comment, so I assume no one here ever had to make stone wheels— except me. I had to make a dozen for axe sharpening (thankfully someone else had to do the wooden frame and treadle assembly) and know that you NEVER use a chisel to produce a stone wheel.

NEVER.

Can you imagine Michelangelo having that problem with his “David” or the “Pietà”?

I’m a joiner (UK), a carpenter (USA), and a perfectionist in my work,, wish I was not as it it can be very time consuming and tedious.

Go over one bump in the road and it would have shattered any way, better to have found out now rather than at speed…

A bigger Hammer isn’t always the best answer to a problem.

I will never attempt to carve precious gems from their source stones.

Perfection is an unusual stop on the railway between today and the final terminal. Train almost never stops right at the platform. It either stops just short, so passengers have to choose to get off early and slog the rest of the way or forget it. Or it stops just past the platform, and riders have to decide to try to go back or go on from there. Frustration abounds.

There’s a point where you stop chiseling, and start grinding.

Ok, I went over all the comments and can’t believe no one noticed this….but this is a ripoff from an earlier BC strip Hart made in the 60’s…..same thing, showing him slowly chipping away until the last little bit….then the last “tink” breaks it in half….he gets mad…but then has a inspiration and makes a rocking chair out of it.

May you fail in a spectacular fashion in public…