Some more Real Woodworking
These are some of the additional items of real woodworking for you to look at, contemplate and respect. None of them can be mass made because they demand the handwork of the men who made them. This hand skill doesn’t happen overnight but comes from the demand of self imposed, constant discipline. This is the demand of any crafting artisan and it’s the passage through which we must all pass, regardless of age or gender.
To many, those who work in craft are often today seen as undisciplined extroverts working outside the system of accepted occupations. That may be because the bench is often untidy and the shop in need of cleaning and clearing from time to time. But the outcome of the chips and shavings give evidence to what has been yielded to the cutting edge of the chisel and gouge. These items credit the men who made them with a quality of life seldom experienced today.
Now of this child’s Windsor chair. Hard to imagine a crinoline stretcher receiving stem tenon back braces and all from English yew.
It’s real woodworking