The Why & How of Woodworking
A Simple Approach to Making Meaningful Work
by Michael Pekovich
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appears in Carpentry and Woodworking.
The Why and How of Woodworking reflects the growing appreciation for the handmade, a movement toward simplifying and uncluttering. There is a growing understanding of the need to fill our lives with meaningful and useful objects. How can woodworkers answer that call Instagram sensation Mike Pekovich explains how to make work that is worth the time...
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“Good Clean Fun reads like an affectionate tour of a one-man woodshop: project tales, backstage stories, and workshop philosophy delivered in Offerman’s blunt, deadpan voice. Its useful part is the steady celebration of manual craft—concrete descriptions of projects, tool talk, and the dignity of hands-on labor that make you want to visit a shop. Limitation: it’s not an instruction manual or deep cultural critique; punchlines and persona recur, so readers wanting tighter editing or new ideas throughout may find chapters repetitive.”
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