PUSHED FOR TIME

[FUJI]

My title re-calls the amount of time hard-working skilled craftsmen spent pushing hand planes to help create the amazing joinery seen in buildings of all types over the centuries.

 

I was one of the very last apprentices to be taught how to use wooden planes and moulding planes which had to be held at a certain angle....one slip and a length of precious glazing bar would be ruined, which meant a clip on the ear and a right sherecking from the foreman.

 

After accurate face-sides, then a face-edges were completed, joinery components would be planed to accurate dimensions prior to moulding in Ovolo or one of the other fancy profiles; it all took hours, the workshop always smelt of freshly cut pine, filled up with silky shavings, the only sound was the swish of  keen blades as the sweating joiners pushed or even walked from one end of the timber then back again.

 

In 1953 when I left school aged 15 the joinery shop had no power and was gas lit, all heavy sawing was done in a yard half a mile away using a huge circular saw powered by a Gas Engine as seen at Agricultural Shows nowadays.

 

I must be getting ancient?  

 

 

Best viewed LARGE....click on PIc:

 

 

FUJI

[FUJI]

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[ChrisLumix]

Your account is very interesting Fuji  

 

The picture itself doesn't really do much for me personally.

[FUJI]

Ah, Chris, you need to look deeply into the textures and detail that has been teased from the original RAW shot.

FUJI