| Blog series by StevenAntonucci | updated 71 days ago | 4 parts | 987 reads | 18 comments total |
Part 1: Entering the realm...
How does one set about becoming a craftsman? (I’ll hold off on the ideas of craft vs. art for now) Typically, the desire to make something is within all of us. Whether it is in our DNA or just our culture, we all have creative capabilities that manifest themselves in different ways. Some paint. Some sculpt. Some of us choose wood as our medium. I think it’s pretty common to see people approach woodworking with a “let’s see what happens” attitude. My p...
Part 2: Making "new things"
As a woodturner, I have seen my work go from about being about to about being more complex. I don’t quite know what happened to make that change, but I just simply lost the interest (for now) in making simple things. I found it pretty funny, since I began turning for the exact opposite reason. I could go to the lathe and make something that was pretty nice (by my standards at that time) in an hour. I had started in woodworking via the traditional means of making furniture and box...
Part 3: Digging yourself out of a turner's rut
I’m in a rut. I’ve gotten to the point where I can usually produce a hollowform in an hour of two, which means I can make 2-3 a day if I want to, but I really don’t want to. Why? Beacause I don’t want to do “production work”? What is production work? To me, it’s work where the creativity is decided one time, and then executed many times. We need production work- spindles for staircases, utility bowls- for our every day lives, but it doesn̵...
Part 4: Stewardship of our Materials (Part 1)
With the recent passing of the master of this topic, I thought it might make sense to post some thoughts on an idea that we should all be thinking about when we work with wood. As woodworkers, we are stewards of the materials that we use. They are a natural resource and the work we produce will hopefully extend their time on earth, and perhaps even ours. I watched David Marks interview James Krenov on Woodworks, and he made a comment that didn’t sink in immediately. He had a bookm...
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