Professional hand tool woodworkers, is it possible?
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Thomas Angle.
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7 October 2018 at 1:20 am #552536
Does anyone out there earn a living from working wood using only hand tools?
If so, I’d love to hear from you folks, tell me about your training, how you’ve progressed and built a business…I have a keen interest in woodworking and am seriously entertaining persuing it as a career. However here in Australia I can’t seem to find the right training. A ‘cabinet makers’ apprenticeship here trains you to build kitchens out of particle board and even fine furniture making courses are heavy on machine use which I’m not overly interested in.
I’ve been teaching myself through online learning and practicing, making whatever I can but to step up to a professional level is a long way off and it’s hard to see how working away by myself without a mentor i might achieve a level of proficiency in hand tool woodworking to turn it into a viable career whilst supporting oneself.
Does the kind of training which Paul went through really exist anymore?
How might others out there in the modern world got the proficiency Paul had and which we all envy.Cheers
Jac Norton
Sydney, Australia20 November 2018 at 2:07 am #553333As a photographer, I get this question a lot, Can you make a living when everyone hs a camera. The truth is that there is a market for everything. you have to find your own niche, there is always one. and be the best at it. Can you compete with a “truck and ladder” guy installing 2 kitchens a day, probably not? but you might be the guy to restore one in a historic home and get paid for months to do it. Paul, I think still teaches.
22 November 2018 at 1:08 am #553401I spent most of my life in the largest Amish community in the world. People flocked to see and buy “old world” type things. Even though most of the Amish shops where as modern as anyones. There are markets. I am not sure about in Austrailia. Then there is tby e question one how much money do you need ro live.
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