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Why we still draw by hand
A pencil sketch of a side table forces decisions that SketchUp lets you defer. That’s the entire argument for the hand drawing, and it’s why every project in the library starts on graph paper before any wood gets dimensioned. The software is faster — that’s the case for it, and it’s real. We use SketchUp…
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Welcome to The Bench
The Bench is a paid library and small community for furniture makers and hand-tool woodworkers. This is the welcome post — what we are, what we’re not, and what to expect. We’re Sam and Ruth. We’ve been building furniture professionally and teaching since 2014 — first out of a shared shop in a converted boathouse,…