Originally Posted by
Derek Cohen
The Fiddleback Jarrah was so hard that I struggled to shape the arms with spokeshaves.
Regards from Perth
Derek
First, gorgeous chair and kudos for doing it the hard way... Speaking of hard things is your Sinn U1 the tegimented version?
Whenever their is not a universally applicable and precise definition of a term of art that can be used to increase the monetary value of an item you can bet there will be controversy and long discussion about it. Etsy is in the unenviable position of having a market place to protect and needing to come up with a definition of handmade that can be applied objectvely to a broad spectrum of products. Handmade is one of those things I see like Justice Potter Stewart used to craft his threshold test for obscenity "I know it when I see it". The only problem with that and this is everyone sees through a different set of eyes. I think the closer one is to a hand tool only user the more strict their personal definition of handmade might be. This got me thinking about a couple of pieces I have built over the years, I made a pattern, roughed out the part on the bandsaw, slapped the pattern on the wood and put it on the shaper with a pattern power feeder and viola a near finish ready part. Were they handmade? I dunno, I never really thought about it but if someone had ask me "did you hand make that?" I would have reflexively said "yes".
Of all the laws Brandolini's may be the most universally true.
Deep thought for the day:
Your bandsaw weighs more when you leave the spring compressed instead of relieving the tension.