Hacker News with Generative AI: Craftsmanship

The Planemaker Who Walked Beneath the Water (workingwoodenplanes.com)
The pages of A Guide to American Wooden Planes are filled with the biographies of planemakers who worked in wildly varying professions, from music teachers to mail clerks. But I know of no other planemaker with a resume like Ebenezer Clifford, architect, master joiner, bell diver, cabinetmaker, turner, justice of the peace, and quartermaster sergeant in the Revolutionary War.

History, Craftsmanship, Biography, Woodworking

23 points by unix2038 32 days ago | 2 comments

The Soul of Craftsmanship (bencornia.com)
I have been musing on my career transition from welding to programming. Welding was an obvious, well-laid path for me. My dad and grandpa were both welders. My great-grandfather was a blacksmith. When I was 13, I dug into my dad's collection of welding instruction manuals that he used in trade school in the 80s. I pored over them in great detail; even drawing the diagrams in a notebook.

Career Transition, Craftsmanship, Programming, Welding

13 points by bencornia 39 days ago | 4 comments

Why this simple ring was so difficult to make [video] (youtube.com)

Video, Jewelry, Craftsmanship

13 points by DamnInteresting 62 days ago | 3 comments

The Last Cowboy Boot Masters of El Paso (atlasobscura.com)
On an otherwise quiet weekday morning in Segundo Barrio, a working-class neighborhood on the south side of El Paso, the tap, tap, tap of Jose Contreras’ hammer echoes from inside the blue warehouse on Cotton Street.

Texas, Culture, Craftsmanship, El Paso

28 points by Brajeshwar 75 days ago | 4 comments

A Knife Forged in Fire (chicagomag.com)
The author wanted a Japanese-style kitchen blade made for him by hand. What he witnessed was a combination of artistry and atomic magic.