I see so many used woodworking machines on marketplace going for little or no money!
I need to remind myself the real cost is in hauling it, storing it and the time spent making it work again.. Great way to get started in the trade but know your limits.
Thanks for sharing! I love all your points here. I’ve recently been racking my brain about what tools I need to specifically expand my capabilities and realized I just need to get better with what I have. What can this new tool do for me? Will it open a new door or just make me faster? Great questions to discern new purchases. Your advice has saved me $$$ and turmoil for sure. Thanks!!
What a great post as usual. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experience with us Brian. And I feel a little embarrassed to say I was born and raised in Ottawa and have never heard of this company. I feel like my old Delta grinder is due for an upgrade…
Thanks for reminding us that we can’t buy, read, or watch our way to mastery. We have to live it through work experience. There is a synthesis that has to happen between the eyes, the mind, and the hands(and perhaps the checkbook gains a kind of knowledge itself). It takes years of practice and some expensive and perhaps painful lessons learned the hard way in the process. It’s interesting, the further I get into craft, the more tools I buy and knowledge I gain, the more I find I need to retreat to fundamentals and relearn that which I thought I had understood. I can’t just figure it out by myself. The path I am walking is the destination itself. The projects are just hostels and stamps in my passport along the pilgrimage of the Camino. The ultimate project is the development of ourselves over the eighty or so years we have. I appreciate and value your sharing of your thoughts.
Yup, that’s pretty much it. But we all bring our own spin into it so the outcomes display an interesting collage we can all gain insight from. Thanks for sharing yours.
Your insights carry admirable precision, and the trouble you take to make your essays interesting and concise is much appreciated.
I see so many used woodworking machines on marketplace going for little or no money!
I need to remind myself the real cost is in hauling it, storing it and the time spent making it work again.. Great way to get started in the trade but know your limits.
Great article and looking forward to meeting you at Handworks, it’s a really special event.
Thanks for sharing! I love all your points here. I’ve recently been racking my brain about what tools I need to specifically expand my capabilities and realized I just need to get better with what I have. What can this new tool do for me? Will it open a new door or just make me faster? Great questions to discern new purchases. Your advice has saved me $$$ and turmoil for sure. Thanks!!
What a great post as usual. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experience with us Brian. And I feel a little embarrassed to say I was born and raised in Ottawa and have never heard of this company. I feel like my old Delta grinder is due for an upgrade…
Well don’t sweat that. Ottawa is a big town. Cuttermasters is a tiny company as I understand it. But you know about them now…..
Thanks for reminding us that we can’t buy, read, or watch our way to mastery. We have to live it through work experience. There is a synthesis that has to happen between the eyes, the mind, and the hands(and perhaps the checkbook gains a kind of knowledge itself). It takes years of practice and some expensive and perhaps painful lessons learned the hard way in the process. It’s interesting, the further I get into craft, the more tools I buy and knowledge I gain, the more I find I need to retreat to fundamentals and relearn that which I thought I had understood. I can’t just figure it out by myself. The path I am walking is the destination itself. The projects are just hostels and stamps in my passport along the pilgrimage of the Camino. The ultimate project is the development of ourselves over the eighty or so years we have. I appreciate and value your sharing of your thoughts.
Yup, that’s pretty much it. But we all bring our own spin into it so the outcomes display an interesting collage we can all gain insight from. Thanks for sharing yours.