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The Bench That Pays for Itself: One Restorer's Twenty-Year Investment
A custom-built oak bench in a Vermont workshop took six months to build and has lasted twenty-three years. The owner has worked out, roughly, how much it has earned per square inch.
Tools
A French Polisher's Bench: What's on It and Why
In a basement workshop in Edinburgh, a polisher with forty-one years at the work keeps a bench whose contents have changed less than three times in her career.
Care
Re-Caning a Chair Seat by Hand: An Afternoon in Burlington
Hettie Vance has re-caned chairs in the same Vermont workshop since 1981. A 1925 American side chair and the seven-step pattern, observed.