Carpenter Object writing Jan 29
admin January 28th, 2008
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The carpenter is cooking up a storm, he takes freshly aged timber that smells of pine, a saw that wobbles like a spinning top, varnish and paint that tastes like treacle, glue that feels like those burrs that stick to your socks when you walk through a field and combine them all together in the mixing bowl of the workshop. Electric power tools send mini earth tremors through benches and tables, grinding stones, spin with a heavy hum and volcano sparks shower as tools are sharpened. Boot polish smells waft as a table is French polished to shine like a new car. Each piece is on display like a new car at the furniture shop, polish and varnish so deep it’s like a pool of glass, hand bounces off if you try to reach in, . So deep and smooth you can water sky on it, see the reflection from the bank in it.A carpenter is the kettle of the workshop, the central ingredient in the ‘making’ of the cup of tea that we know as furniture. He pours himself over every grain, sweetens the wood with his touch, stirs the wood with his plain, until a steaming piece of furniture is produced, ready to be sipped. The pieces taste like a finely brewed tea, a well aged whiskey, sounds like a frozen lake in Finland. Silent, but knowing. Watching you. Power tools are snowmobiles…….
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