This blog is dedicated to sharing the concept that our hands are essential to learning- that we engage the world and its wonders, sensing and creating primarily through the agency of our hands. We abandon our children to education in boredom and intellectual escapism by failing to engage their hands in learning and making.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
E.M. Forster, 1909
The Machine Stops written by E.M. Forster, 1909 is interesting reading for anyone using the internet. I am taking a day away from the wood shop and the making of sawdust to recover from a cold. In the meantime, my shop tip on the use of sawdust was published in the current issue of Fine Woodworking, January/February 2010, page 18. The tip involves using sawdust to wash your hands prior to soap and water. It is a great technique for removing greasy, oily substances from your hands prior to soap and water. I scrub my hands with sawdust to remove Danish oil after applying it to my boxes.
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