Why We Make Things and Why It Matters

Why We Make Things and Why It MattersSubtitled "The Education of a Craftsman", this is not a "how to" book but instead a "why" kind of book. Korn, a woodworker with several decades of practice, explores why one gets satisfaction from creative work. Korn, who finds employment as a novice carpenter on Nantucket, transitions to self employment as a designer maker of fine furniture, and takes a turn at teaching and administration at Colorado's Anderson Ranch Arts Center. He eventually

who has built many of these boats

Y-Stern Canoe

Two Cruising Ketches

getting the low-down from a builder whose work hangs in museums is likely to improve your own technique a notch or two

so perhaps it's worth your while

Chapter 7: No-Frills Benches

Marking the stations and setting up the cockpit molds

and is in the same clear

We have sold out of the print version of this book

Grayson casts a revelatory light not only on Slocum but the times in which he lived and sailed

) book traces Iain's life from Australia to Scotland

but you can download the PDF version of the issue