Saturday, May 9, 2015

How much can you like a thing?

 I was working on this rammed earth formwork yesterday



I went an ripped a piece of wood, and thought.

 "I love this machine."


Whether I am or not, I pride myself of being non materialistic, on being simple, on having a small footprint .  So can I like/love a table saw that uses fossil fuels for electricity?  If and when it fails I will be trully sad and depressed.


Thirty years ago I built the roof, upstairs walls, floor, windows, doors of this house, all with  wood, with wood hand tools.  I did buy tongue and groove floor boards.


What if I had had a table saw, elec drill, elec wood planner?

1 comment:

  1. I know exactly how you feel about your table saw. Thanks for sharing.

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