{"id":6306,"date":"2022-05-20T10:50:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/?p=6306"},"modified":"2022-05-20T10:50:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T14:50:08","slug":"what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-hand-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/2022\/05\/20\/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-hand-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"What we talk about when we talk about hand tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the spring of 2021 I started writing, elsewhere, a series of think-pieces about technology in the woodshop, beginning with the question What is a hand tool, anyway?<\/em>, continuing through the effects of tools and tool use on the worker and the world, and working towards, as I found, a sort of rubric for evaluating tools for wise and responsible use. As I mean to pick up this thread, I have moved the pieces here and am linking to them below, in the order written, and will link new pieces here as I write them. I am also tagging them with work and the worker<\/a>, which opens a few more doors and will likely range a little further. <\/p>\n

A couple of things to note. First, I mean this to be a practical discussion, not a purely philosophical one. Second, although my particular interest is woodworking, I believe the discussion and tentative conclusions are applicable far more widely. In fact, I think there’s real value, at this point in time, to come at the problem of technology use from a perspective other than that of the digital \u2014 i.e., other than that unique to this point in time. We’ll see if it bears fruit.<\/p>\n

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  1. What is a \u201chand tool,\u201d anyway?<\/a> <\/li>\n
  2. Hand tools and \u201ctraditional woodworking\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Tools and externalities<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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