Master and apprentice
…than be absorbed into the megabucks business world that only does what it does for money. Why should we craftsmen apprentice others? Fact is that most skilled craftsmen today don’t….
…than be absorbed into the megabucks business world that only does what it does for money. Why should we craftsmen apprentice others? Fact is that most skilled craftsmen today don’t….
…the air. The bird’s song no longer near, reflects my work that breaks the forest silence echoing beyond my gaze absorbed in leaf-filled branches and the compost neath my feet….
…cannot pursue woodworking beyond a very dumbed down level of Design and Technology class in resistant materials. How we plan to handle the conservation of our craft work without restoring…
…trying to convey some hidden depth, yet most of the authors never quite plumbed to the essence what working with your hands to earn your living really means: Especially to…
…is generally safe; at least a thousand times safer than machine woodworking. Instead of a worklife absorbed in thinking constant safety issues and rules too, I never have that problem…
…talked through, climbed up, hung from, flew in, painted on; I mean absolutely everything, and export it to another continent and so place young people in utter rejection in unemployability?…
…his tools could continue to be used by students. Like everything else in our modern world, substantive skill has been dumbed down to intolerable levels and much if this occurred…
…wanted here in the UK and then I talked with Jay Andrews from Laguna. The Laguna bandsaw he described seemed to be precisely the one I needed as it was…
…called power tool manufacturers have produced machines to help with woodworking through the years, many woodworking tasks such as dovetailing and carving, inlaying and so on have been dumbed down…
…is that these machines substitute for skill and the results are therefor dumbed down standards. He fails on all fronts, as is a regular imbalance with this magazine and as…