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Chordal's Letters Preface

7/1/17       
cabmaker

I happened to glance at this book earlier today when I was recommending it to a young woodworker who responded to an ad we have for employment. The book talks about prosperity available to the smart mechanic. Everything Chordal wrote 150 years ago is germane to us today.

The 3rd & 4th chapter kind of describe some of our leaders today.

The last few paragraphs on page two talk about the workingman in America.


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7/3/17       #2: Chordal's Letters Preface ...
cabmaker

If you read the first paragraph of Chordal's preface you will see that he describes the essential basis of Twitter.

7/3/17       #3: Chordal's Letters Preface ...
cabmaker

I had a great conversation with a local woodworker this weekend. I struck up a conversation with him while he was loading up a bandsaw across the street from my shop. I'd seen his work before and was very impressed. It was very high quality work. I remember at the time I was hopeful I would not have to compete with him.

He sent me a link to this video about the very best way to lay bricks. It made me think of a book I read by Henry Ford. Ford said that standardization was simply the exercise of figuring out the very best way to do anything and getting everybody to do it that way.

Brick Laying Video

7/3/17       #4: Chordal's Letters Preface ...
cabmaker

The very next video that YouTube served up was about a journeyman bricklayer's day in England in the 1940s.

It was interesting. I learned a lot about bricks. The men in that trade seemed to be very well respected and apparently had a comfortable home life.

They had a part about how Apprentices were brought into the trade. What I thought was interesting was how the kids also attended trade school where they were taught construction theory.

Why don't our woodworking schools spend any time on the principles of lean manufacturing. You can get a two year degree certificate in cabinet making at the community college in my city without ever having heard the words lean & manufacturing put together in one sentence.

Probably half of those students are in the school to prepare for the trade of woodworking. Why would they not be taught construction theory?

7/6/17       #5: Chordal's Letters Preface ...
cabinetmaker

this is "cabinetmaker"

I love Chordal......

7/8/17       #6: Chordal's Letters Preface ...
Pat Gilbert

The numbers in that video seem questionable.

They were saying that the numbers went from 125 to 350 an hour.

I have always heard that 1000 bricks a day was average or the expected amount.

7/9/17       #7: Chordal's Letters Preface ...
KaliKid

There's always a better way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO9D0cChf3k

7/9/17       #8: Chordal's Letters Preface ...
Pat Gilbert

The better way

The better way

7/9/17       #9: Chordal's Letters Preface ...
John Henry

Several years ago I built cabinets for a man who was an inventor and held many patents. He created an automatic machine for packing lipstick into the little cases women hold in their fingers while performing the bait & switch ritual.

Up until this time I bunch of women would collect in the basement of Revlon, smoke cigarettes and gossip while they hand packed lipstick into the tubes.

Max, the inventor, said the machine he produced nagged him the rest of his career. Before he came along a bunch of women had perfectly good jobs and a place to go each day doing something that needed to be done.


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