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86355 "Clarke Green" cagreen@k... 2000‑11‑17 Biographic update
In my last bio I was working at a millwork shop. Now I am working for myself
(see the website url below) I have been a woodworker in one guise or another
since I learned to peel the bark off a green twig with one of mom's steak
knives in the dim, dark past. Dad had (and has yet) a shop in the basement
where we made things and it has ever been thus. Dad is a true blue
Connecticut Yankee Trader and we went to auctions and fleamarkets in
Northern Virginia as I grew up sharpening my appetite for things old,
unusual and cheap.

I accumulate tools indiscriminately and sell many more than I keep, but I
keep enough to be a identified as a user with collecting tendencies. I would
not call my collection of tools anything out of the ordinary and I haven't
any real intense concentration (or obsession) on any type of tool. At this
point I have just about everything I need to do my job, but I have
discovered blacksmithing and that opens up a whole new world of tool buying
possibilities.

I use hand tool methods in my work wherever they are practical. Machines are
a great boon in may ways but they have not superceded good hand skills. I
use the method that gives the best results in the least amount of time and
building one piece of furniture at a time means a liberal amount of hand
work. I made lots of jigs and guides in my former job to run multiples on
big machines but I rarely need to make 10 of something any more, so hand
cutting joints, etc. is faster than the machine alternative.

She who puts up with my foolishness is the lovely Theodora (Teddi). She may
not quite understand all of this madness yet looks on with benevolence and
grace. The boy is no longer a boy, he has turned eighteen and is preparing
to fly away to college next fall. He is an Eagle Scout (really) and has a
propensity for the axe. I have helped him accumulate several examples and
life goes on.



Clarke Green
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C. A. Green Woodworking - Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
Web site - http://cagreen.tripod.com/wood/index.htm




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