Handcrafting a Classical Guitar Neck, Taos, New Mexico
Machine cuts can distract us and for some it becomes lifelong to use machines only. Those advocating them as the better path influence others on a major scale and so then the path in life we’ve chosen for ourselves gets distorted. Even now, after over a half century of daily furniture making, someone out there, someone who just doesn’t get it, who cannot get it and may never get it, tries to persuade me that machines are the better choice. Paul Sellers, woodworker When I was a real little kid, like four years old, my dad built a small shed in the backyard of the house, and my parents were a little slow in putting shingles on the roof. One day I decided that I would finish the work myself, because I had watched mom and dad nail the shingles onto the skip sheathing, and in my mind that meant I know what to do. With hammer in hand and my own nail bag full of nails I crawled up on the roof and started swatting nails into those lovely thin pieces of sugar pine. This banging brought my par
