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Get Your House Right

It’s easy to distinguish between a two-hundred-year-old colonial house and a modern imitation—and not just because McMansions are puffed-up and super-sized. There’s a mysterious quality in a well-designed home—grace, proportion, something almost ineffable about the way they look “right.” Many older homes share that mysterious quality; few modern ones do.

Shop Class as Soulcraft

A book every craftsman should read “What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?” –Matthew Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: Penquin Press, 2009 I recently taught a class on Mastering the Miter Saw to a group… Read the full article