Here are some very simple chairs I made
from fresh green wood, constructed in the
woods with a few basic hand tools.
From the earliest periods of Egyptian
culture people sat upon simple hewn
blocks of stone or tree trunk.
Then wooden stools were made which
evolved into the true chair.
Few items of furniture have ever matched
the supreme quality of some of the
Egyptian thrones.
The principles of cutting and shaping
wood, and the tool kit used by those
people, are as valid today as they were
then. Indeed, until the introduction of
machine tools in this century woodworkers
followed a timeless profession.
In the field of woodworking, as in so
many others, there has been more change
in my own lifetime than there had been
over the previous several millennia.
The set of woodworking tools that the
ancient Egyptians possessed, which had
been preceded by the stone tools of
Palaeolithic times, was added to and
improved over the subsequent centuries
up until modern times, when it reached
a peak ( in terms of quality and reliability,
although the basic principles and design of
each tool were not much altered ) roughly
around the beginning of the 20th. century.
Since then there has been a decline.
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