A Tack-Making Expert

According to Malcolm Gladwell, it takes about 10,000 hours to become an expert. That's only 417 days... if you work constantly without eating, sleeping, or doing anything else.

If I want to become an expert tack maker, how long would it theoretically take me? Right now I can devote about an hour of time to tack making each weak. At that rate, it would only take me about 191 and a half years. Not too shabby...

But seriously... considering I don't plan to live to be 211 years old, I don't think that's going to work. Right now I don't really have time to do anything but study and work, and occasionally see Sonny. Hopefully later on in life I will have more time to make tack.

Even though things sound pretty impossible the way they are, I think I am going to keep track of the hours I work from now on. Just for the fun of it and so I can see how I progress as the hours go by. It will kind of be an experiment of sorts!

Now my question is, do I want to count all hours? Does that include skiving, ribbion halter making and such, or should I just count the hours I put into saddles (which is currently a big old 0)? Either way, I will keep my progress posted here for those of you that might be interested :).