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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> I BELONG TO a generation of furniture makers to whom wood working initially presented itself as a lost art from a more authentic time. When I turned my first clear pine board into a cradle and for many years thereafter I was beguiled by rediscovering the how of craft. How do you sharpen a chisel? How do you cut a sliding dove- tail? How do you make a chair comfortable? Eventually though I also began to wonder about the way. What is craft and why does it matter? Why do we make things? Or more specifically why do we choose the spiritually emotionally and physically demanding work of bringing new objects into the world with creativity and skill? The answers I have found – through considering the work of my own hands through the practical education of a life in craft and through the shared experiences of others – all seem to lead back to one fundamental truth: we practice contemporary craft as a process of self-transformation. Why this should be so and what its ramifi- cations are not only for craft and other creative fields but also for understanding our own humanity is the subject of this book. More than five years ago I told myself that if I put down at least one word a day about the things that deeply mattered to me I would be ahead of where I was not writing about them at all. My previ- ous efforts as an author had been in the how-to genre. Books such as The Woodworker’s Guide to Handtools (Taunton Press 1998) (LL)