A Hand Tool School Student Walks Into A Lumber Yard
Have you seen this man?
One deranged woodworker showed up in a modern day lumber yard to buy enormous Douglas Fir timbers and came prepared with a simple hand saw to break down the stock for transport. When questioned as to why he was bending over in the dirt and laboring away on the 6×6 timber with said saw, he simply responded with,
“It’s more fun this way.”
Those Hand Tool School students are truly odd people…
…and I couldn’t be prouder. Maybe this “aesthetic anarchism” that Christopher Schwarz keeps talking about is real after all.
6x6, 4x6, and 4x4 kiln dried Douglas Fir for a Workbench
Yaakov stopped by the lumber yard today to buy Douglas Fir lumber for his Roubo bench. It is amazing just how few boards you need when you start with a 6×6 and 4×6 timbers. We shared in some good conversation, a tour of the yard, and I stood proudly by as Yaakov split these big timbers with only a 16th of an inch deviation from square in his cross cuts.
Good luck with the bench Yaakov and come back again soon. We’ll raid the dumpsters together!
