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Random hand tool story.
I worked as a foreman for a house building and property company Poco that worked mainly around Liverpool and Manchester in the days before cordless power tools.
They sent out a memo that I may still have in my loft as it was a classic, it was headed Re: Carpenters, axes and hanging hardwood front doors.
The gist of it was a couple were buying a new house on an estate they were building and called by during the working week to see how it was progressing.
A carpenter was hanging the front door and needed to reduce the width by a fair bit, so rather than plane it down he had cut a series of saw kerfs and then was axing the waste away before tidying it up with his plane.
A very efficient way of doing it, but not the way to impress the customers.
Random hand tool story.
I worked as a foreman for a house building and property company Poco that worked mainly around Liverpool and Manchester in the days before cordless power tools.
They sent out a memo that I may still have in my loft as it was a classic, it was headed Re: Carpenters, axes and hanging hardwood front doors.
The gist of it was a couple were buying a new house on an estate they were building and called by during the working week to see how it was progressing.
A carpenter was hanging the front door and needed to reduce the width by a fair bit, so rather than plane it down he had cut a series of saw kerfs and then was axing the waste away before tidying it up with his plane.
A very efficient way of doing it, but not the way to impress the customers.
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