Woodworking Techniques Quotes

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood.

My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is a work of art, after all, and I'd like to honor that gift and pass it on for someone else to appreciate.

My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture.

Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.

I'd love to do more woodworking, and maybe will someday, but I wasn't brought up in that environment. My wife is better at woodworking, and most around-the-house skills, than I am.

I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.

But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it.

The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them.

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.

If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.