Slowy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 4:46 pm
Bg wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:25 pm
So workbench is now on the floor, now if only I had instructions like from ikea…..
Nice bits of Blackwood maybe I should just build some guitars out of it?
As long as it's strong and stable, a workbench doesn't care what it's made of. It's not furniture; don't waste beautiful wood on it.
But it can be beautiful furniture and it can be a way to further refine your craft as the apprentice test pieces of yore were. I aspire to the time, skill and confidence to build something like this:
http://www.strazzafurniture.com/workbenches.html
Expediency in the age of power tool democracy doesn't have to be the only bottom line qualifier of a job well done. Granted, in this capitalist paradigm, time is money, but if time can be spent acquiring skill and confidence, happiness and story, then the measures of a job well done widen beyond economic expediency. A cool as fuck work-bench is as good a project to honour quality timber by as any and a legacy object to leave...like planting a tree and knowing you'll never be alive long enough to enjoy it's shade.
Yeah...then relic the fuck outta it in use and love doing it, and it, and the memory of it's maker and their story, will only gain mana
I'm currently enjoying quietly riving posts from tootara and the sound of a hand plane peeling shavings. My eye, my hand and a buzz that I get to repurpose tree bones for a purpose that many others will enjoy
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