Vann wrote:Alasdair wrote:...they brought back may memories of having a grumpy old joiner thumping me with his walking stick when I made a mistake...
When I started my apprenticeship (1973) I remember commenting to one of my fellow apprentices about the large number of grumpy old buggers...
And now I am one
Cheers, Vann.
I remember driving round London in the van with my old leading hand/gang hand many years ago. He'd been in the window cleaning forever and he was saying, 'Used to do that one, and that one, and that one over there, and that green mirrored building, and that one....'
I distinctly remember thinking 'Bore on George! Give it a rest mate!'
A year or two back I was driving with a couple of the youger lads and I was saying 'See that big bank, Used to that one, and that building there used to be the BT HQ, used to do that too. And that Merril Lynch building by the London Wall...'
And I just had this moment of absolute terrible clarity and I realised what I had become.
Anyway,back on track...
I just recently bought Lost Art Press 'reprint' Doormaking and Windowmaking. Strictly speaking I suppose it doesn't belong in this thread but it's worth including anyway I think. It's fairly comprehensive to my untutored eye at least and being a Lost Art book it's a joy just to pick up, thick creamy pages, the sort of book Winston Smith in 1984 lost his head for. Doesn't make it a better joinery book but its nice nonetheless. It's aimed at a certain modern market I suppose.
I also have Corkhill Dowsett / Richard Greenhalgh's book 'Joinery and Carpentry' which is a proper old book. Mostly on door and window making, it does include some geometry sections that are a little above my paygrade as a hobby shed warrior.
Congratulations to Frank Whittaker for winning it in his fourth year (!) at the Brighouse Technical School as second prize.
https://imgur.com/a/pcNxYM5
An Imgur link till I can work out how to host pics. Told you I was getting old.
I briefly owned a book on ship building but that's a story for another time....