Just found this. It's a good read. Be sure to click on the great article in the Cincinnati Magazine. 

 

Enjoy.

https://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/great-free-read-chairmaker-chester-cornett

Edited January 2, 20188 yr by Gene Howe

There are some fantastic pictures in that publication.Love the sign on his old home.

THANKS Gene...Enjoyed every aspect of this post.

What a great story shared in the Cincinnati...couldn't stop reading it.

If you haven't already, download the free book from Chris' link, Beyond the Narrow Sky...great pictures in it! Looking forward to reading the story.

 

Will do, Dave. 

Wow.   I've lived in Cincinnati since 1979 and never heard of Elizabethtown, Ohio.   But I have actually been through there a few times.

That was a great piece to read and the pics something I just could not do.

link doesn't work.

 

3 minutes ago, DAB said:

link doesn't work.

 

Oh yeah, got so caught up reading, I forgot to mention the same for me...

I just C&P'd...that worked

Hey guys, sorry about the dead link. As Dave suggested, C&P does work though.

It's worth the effort....really.

yeah, i figured that out.  

 

ever wonder about all stories that don't get told?

42 minutes ago, DAB said:

yeah, i figured that out.  

 

ever wonder about all stories that don't get told?

Makes me regret I didn't have the sense to stumble upon him and others back in the late 60's through the 70's to hear their stories first hand...

So much common sense aka "tribal" knowledge lost because they didn't conform to a modern society...

I loved reading this story...fascinating.

i took shop class in jr. HS and HS.  then nothing for about 20 years as i did career stuffs.  then got married and off I went.  looked at some work done by others, gave it some thought, and designed and built an entire kitchen.  then other things.

 

i took Wood Magazine for several years, read it, but never built anything they had in their pages.  either i didn't like the project, or found the directions too cumbersome to follow (too much text).  so i figured out how to design and build things on my own.  using tools i had and that i was good enough with.  and when your wife is waiting for a project to be completed, you cannot decide to choose some unproven, complicated process or design, you have to use what you know will work in a reasonable time frame.

 

in large part, woodworking is about knowing how to build a box.  if you can build a squared up box to a given inside or outside dimension, you'll do fine.

Edited January 4, 20188 yr by DAB