Woodcraft Ninjas

The following is excerpted from “Honest Labour: The Charles H. Hawyard Years,” a collection of essays from The Woodworker magazine while the legendary Charles H. Hayward was editor (1936-1966). The columns are like nothing we’ve ever read in a woodworking magazine. They are filled with poetry, historical characters and observations on nature. And yet they…

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— the instinct to create, to make things with our own hands, is part of every man’s natural inheritance I like to think that somewhere in the work we do lies the secret of existence. Something our work demands of us, differing perhaps with each individual and yet, rightly understood, demanding our best; something it…

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