Intense Demand Woodworking

The intensity of learning anything new is rarely self observed, but I have a few thousand pictures I have taken through the decades that show clearly the dynamic of focus that engages the whole body in its multidimensionality. The intensity of making with your hands is dynamic; unlike most crafts, woodworking is far from a sedentary occupation. You must stand, move around, bend, swivel and twist to expedite the wide range of cuts necessary to develop any project. True is, woodworking is just flat good for the body, but furthermore, it's excellent for developing and maintaining your mental acuity. I have other crafts I enjoy and because I am so used to bench work I usually find a spot at my woodworking workbench to do this work too. One thing that inevitably happened when I used to hold classes is that the people attending arrived at their workbenches and sat down to work. |So used to sitting at desks, they thought that they could do the same with working wood. Additionally, because…

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