“I would like to make solid wood clocks if the opportunity came up. I like glue, and I like to cut with saws.”
Bob Dylan
more infosource: “Bob Dylan in Conversation with John Elderfield,” Spring 2011.
category: carpentry, clock, craft, glue, handmade, wood
medium: Interview
“When I was a little kid, there were still blacksmiths around, and I’ve never forgotten the ring of a real hammer on a real anvil.”
Saul Bellow
more infosource: written in a letter to Philip Roth, letting him know his stories are the “real thing,” dated December 12, 1969, in Saul Bellow: Letters (New York: Viking, 2010), 290.
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category: authenticity, blacksmith, childhood, craft, handmade, integrity, tool
medium: letter
“As soon as you move to New York, you kiss your tools goodbye.”
Peter Buchanan-Smith
more infosource: “Peter Buchanan-Smith and the Urban Ax,” by Penelope Green, The New York Times, June 30, 2010
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category: handmade, New York City, tool, woodshop
medium: newspaper article
notes: check out his handmade ax here: Best Made Company
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