Topic
craftsmanship
- Making a Steinway piano
I ran across this documentary about the making of a Steinway grand piano. The process of constructing one of these takes a year or more. It’s a great example of handmade craftsmanship in a world where we’ve mechanized…
- Craftsmanship And Error Correction
Craftsmanship involves knocking down a succession of steps until it feels 'done'. Cutting, milling, gluing, trimming, assembling, finishing, painting. Each step takes its input from the previous, and might have to cor…
- Quality Without a Name
Karri Saarinen: Christoper Alexander opens his book Timeless Way of Building, that in order to build with a timeless way, we first need to find the “quality without a name”. What he is saying is that quality exists, i…
- Restoring Antique Tools
This guy has an interesting channel with metalwork, restoration, and blacksmithing. In a day I watched all of his tool restoration videos. This one is a massive 500lb vise he found, dating from the 18th century in an…