Workshop Mastery with Jimmy DiResta

Foreword

The term “mastery” gets thrown around an awful lot these days when it comes to people who can make things. Our consumerist society has grown very soft in some ways because people can exist comfortably without ever learning to use a screwdriver, let alone a lathe. These folks, who have chosen to live very comfortable lives requiring no skills beyond shopping online and occasionally walking to the john, are therefore understandably impressed when they see an actual human being melt paraffin wax, pour it into a mold with a wick, and then after it cools, pop out the finished candle. “Why, that person must be a candle master!” When people erroneously attempt to lay such a label on me, having seen a simple table or canoe paddle created with ...