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NOTES FROM THE WORKSHOP
A MEDITATION ON MEASURING
There's an old carpenter's adage that has outlived every power tool that it was ever uttered over: measure twice, cut once. And somehow the whole philosophy of good work is wrapped up in those four words: patience before action, attention before ambition, and humility before authority.
The Japanese temple carpenters, the miyadaiku, take it further still. Before a single joint is cut, they study each beam for days—its grain, its twist, the side that once faced the sun. The miyadaiku say: "The wood teaches the carpenter".
The Shakers, working an ocean away, arrived at the same truth in their own words: "Do your work as though you had a thousand years to live, and as if you were to die tomorrow." Patience and finality, held in the same hand. This is the spirit we try to keep around here. And in case we forget, we've even stamped it and branded it onto a few of our products. Because it's always worth remembering that things worth making are things worth slowing down for.
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