Originally Posted by
Stewie Simpson
Personally I struggle to understand the approach of woodworkers in the USA. As someone that was taught under the uk system of of traditional apprenticeship training,as was my father before me, I can only put it down to the USA;s move away from traditional trade apprenticeships shortly after WWII, to a system that has become more heavily reliant on excepting what can and cannot be learnt on the job site, to a system that has become heavily reliant on the skill-set of Engineers to fill the void of understanding within the craft.
Hi Stewie.
I don't disagree that we lost something good as apprenticeships declined. I'm not following you on how that thought ties to Ken building workbenches for fun, or the whimsical idea of making "moravian workbench furniture". Did you mean to post that in a different thread?
Fred
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