#389: Working with Your Hands

Dashing this letter off ahead of book and class deadlines next week, mainly to share with you this sentence I read in a woodworking book:

When working with machines, you take the wood to the machine. Conversely with hand tools, you bring the tool to the wood.

Or to generalize it: You bring tools to the material; you bring material to the machine.

I’ve been thinking about this as I’ve been building physical scale models for the house design project in my studio class. I’m already spending 2–3 hours ...