diggrduggr's Workshop

I hesitate to call it my ‘work’shop as everything done within it’s confines is anything but work. The challenge of taking a naked piece of wood and clothing it into it’s finest ‘suit’ is one I rarely tire of.

A recent read of Dusty’s ‘This Old Crack House’ rang true when he said that he finds himself ‘doing more with less tools’. I guess we all go thru that and due to the fact that all my previously acquired tools are back in the US and my arms are not long enough to reach across the Pacific it has been a ‘search and find’ mission to re-tool myself.

After doing endless research on the net developing the unavoidable ‘wish list’ and then comparing it to the reality of Thailand it has been a compromise from day one. Dispite the fact that there are forests and trees in Thailand, the rape of the forrest has created an atmosphere of ‘wood is gold’ and strict and stringent controls are placed upon its harvesting and transportation. Needless to say that this has driven up the prices to the benefit of those in power.

Getting my head around exactly where I wanted to go with my wood creativity was seen as the frrst step in deciding what tools of the trade were required. I found myself crawling back into the ‘woodworking’ comfort zone of decades past and had to fight the urge to buy-buy-buy. It has now been 9 months of searching and things are slowly coming together. Pics to follow.

-- I can so I wood