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22nd June 2012, 07:14 PM #1
The Woodworker, October 1951
For him there need be no looking back wistfully to days when the toil of workshop or factory or office desk perforce kept his life filled. He will have in his skilful fingers the power to recreate his life anew so long as the power to work remains with him, something in which he can be happy and absorbed and be for ever learning, something too which will enable him to add to the attractiveness of his home and give pleasure to his friends. For woodwork is indeed a homely craft, adapting itself to all sorts of conditions. It can be plain or decorative, it can range from indoor and outdoor furnishings to a child’s toy and the humble window wedge. It can embrace both the classical elegance of an inlaid cabinet and a strictly utilitarian kitchen fitting, and each thing in itself be so honestly and truly made as to be perfect of its kind. It can give a man scope for his fancy and every kind of ingenuity. It will both exercise his patience and add to his serenity, for there is something very kindly about wood. It can keep the spirit of creation alive in him till his tools are put away for the last time, since to us all “the night cometh when no man can work.” But at least he will have lived. And who knows what new possibilities will dawn for him when the night ends?
— The Woodworker, October 1951Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I´m not so sure about the universe.
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22nd June 2012, 07:23 PM #2Woodswarf
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Give that man a raise. And a poetry scholarship
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22nd June 2012, 08:03 PM #3Jim
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The annual collections of the Woodworker make a great present especially when you give the one for the year the recipient was born.
Cheers,
Jim
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