Woodcraft Ninjas

Every shop I’ve worked in had a set of built-in aphorisms – things that are said when you encounter a moment of truth at the bench or when the clamps come off. Michael Dunbar’s chair shop probably had more than 100 sayings that he and his instructors had developed. Taking a class there was like…

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I posted this list on Twitter in a scattershot manner earlier. Some people (Lucy) complained that they somehow missed big parts of this list. So here you go. You might be a wiener woodworker if: You call yourself a “master” woodworker without the documentation. You write and talk about yourself in the third person. You…

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