| This book is for the person who wants the per-sonal joy and satisfaction of creating a useful itemand a thing of beauty with one s own hands andheart. Remember, you leave a part of yourself ineverything you "touch" (create) with your hands. This is a return to the "good old days" and the oldways, using hand tools and a living piece of wood tomake a bowl. From the beginning, hewn wooden bowls havebeenvery special to people. Anthropologists tell usthat the "cave man" used to spend his winter monthsin his cave, with a stone adze and a chunk of wood,hewing away to create a bowl -- a useful item to besure, but also a creation of beauty. Wooden bowls and adzes accompanied peopleas they crossed the land bridge from Asia to NorthAmerica. They were among the few items treasuredenough to be carried along this journey of manylifetimes. Until the advent of mechanization, a man wouldstill spend his winter months in his home, using hismetal adze to hew wooden bowls and treenware("from a tree"). Each bowl so created has a part of itscreator in it, distinguishing it from the latter-day,machine-made, production-line bowls. |
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