Creative work with wood
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wanderer33 said:
So there's no metal at all in it (screw, nails...) like in the good old time.
Sometimes I work a little bit on wood too and I have the same feeling. When I look at a modern objects I only see a industrialized, mechanical, soulless, standardized item.
But when I look at a creation, like your box, I can see it's unique, you can picture the movements of the craftman, the tools shaping the wood, the uniqueness of the shape, the search for colors balance, dimensions harmony, perfect adjustments...
Congratulations for your creation!
wanderer33
Jedi
Thanks Laura and everyone. I really appreciate you comments. :D
Belibaste, there is no metal in its construction whatsoever. I used a special jointing technique which required no metal.
However, I placed a brass plaque inside with some thoughts.
Belibaste, there is no metal in its construction whatsoever. I used a special jointing technique which required no metal.
However, I placed a brass plaque inside with some thoughts.
JonnyRadar
The Living Force
wanderer33, that's absolutely beautiful. Very nice work! :)
Buddy
The Living Force
That is very beautiful to me.
I'd like to share something also:
[quote author=Gurdjieff]
"What, in your opinion, is the best preparation for the study of your method? For instance, is it useful to study what is called 'occult' or 'mystical' literature?"
In saying this I had in mind more particularly the "Tarot" and the literature on the "Tarot."
"Yes," said G. "A great deal can be found by reading. For instance, take yourself: you might already know a great deal if you knew how to read. I mean that, if you understood everything you have read in your life, you would already know what you are looking for now. If you understood everything you have written in your own book, what is it called?"—he made something altogether impossible out of the words "Tertium Organum"—"I should come and bow down to you and beg you to teach me. But you do not understand either what you read or what you write.
You do not even understand what the word 'understand' means. Yet understanding is essential, and reading can be useful only if you understand what you read. But, of course, no book can give real preparation. So it is impossible to say which is better.
What a man knows well" (he emphasized the word "well")—"that is his preparation. If a man knows how to make coffee well or how to make boots well, then it is already possible to talk to him. The trouble is that nobody knows anything well. Everything is known just anyhow, superficially."
ISOTM, 27
[/quote]
One of my takes on the above quote is that to be able to take raw material and transform it into a practical thing of one-of-a-kind beauty and usefulness is very valuable - an alchemical Work of sorts. :)
I'd like to share something also:
[quote author=Gurdjieff]
"What, in your opinion, is the best preparation for the study of your method? For instance, is it useful to study what is called 'occult' or 'mystical' literature?"
In saying this I had in mind more particularly the "Tarot" and the literature on the "Tarot."
"Yes," said G. "A great deal can be found by reading. For instance, take yourself: you might already know a great deal if you knew how to read. I mean that, if you understood everything you have read in your life, you would already know what you are looking for now. If you understood everything you have written in your own book, what is it called?"—he made something altogether impossible out of the words "Tertium Organum"—"I should come and bow down to you and beg you to teach me. But you do not understand either what you read or what you write.
You do not even understand what the word 'understand' means. Yet understanding is essential, and reading can be useful only if you understand what you read. But, of course, no book can give real preparation. So it is impossible to say which is better.
What a man knows well" (he emphasized the word "well")—"that is his preparation. If a man knows how to make coffee well or how to make boots well, then it is already possible to talk to him. The trouble is that nobody knows anything well. Everything is known just anyhow, superficially."
ISOTM, 27
[/quote]
One of my takes on the above quote is that to be able to take raw material and transform it into a practical thing of one-of-a-kind beauty and usefulness is very valuable - an alchemical Work of sorts. :)
