This is the blog of the author of the study. The information gathered was distilled into materials that were then the basis of a class which produced some really amazing projects. It’s a very interesting project and I think provides insights into craft training in general. This is a study of the transmission of tacit knowledge among Sheffield (England) knife makers. I don’t know of any specific study related to woodworking, but I’ll bet it’s out there. The study of the transmission of tacit knowledge is part of the larger subject of “design research” which is a pretty opened ended term. Books are great but they don’t tell me what my plane should sound like.
#Jack handy how to
Either way, he wasn’t in training in how to use a plane.Ĭraft knowledge is tacit knowledge. The majority of designs have always lived only in paper space.Īnyone with access to a book like that when it was published was likely accomplished at his craft and moved on up to a level where it mattered that he understand the theoretical aspects of design or came from a class that allowed him to bypass the shop floor stage entirely. The maker of the image of a thing may be but often isn’t the one to ultimately craft it if it is to be crafted. Those books much like architectural treatises aid the craft of drawing according to particular guidelines and with enough technical knowledge to make things work. The product of that theorizing is an image, not an object. Any maker who wants to respond to the architecture of his (or her) era is going to need some grounding in that theory and some skill in the practical application of that theory to the representation of furniture that is proposed to be built. There is continuity, but ideas evolve far more rapidly than craft traditions. The distinction is that one is driven by ideas and one by need, not that there isn’t crossover to some extent (please spare me that response).Īrchitecture has been driven by theory for a very long time. That being architecture as a discipline distinct from building. HIgh style furniture and interior decorating were responsive to architecture in the past just as they are now.
#Jack handy professional
Innovation was measured in terms of generations and not often of individual makers. 2 reviews of Jack Handy I write my review as the daughter of a building superintendent and the step-daughter of a professional builder, as well as a former. Standard forms were made over and over by numerous makers with only slight variation. It seems pretty common now to imagine some sort of past universal woodworker who did it all when really someone whose trade was something like chair bodger may never or only very rarely have made something as simple as a dovetailed box.Ĭraft or trade training was specific, done while working, and limited to what was needed to make the thing the trade makes.
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