This Tuesday Measure Twice offered it's second Autumn Semester. Participants brought over-worked kitchen knives and some chisels that might have been at the bottom of the Atlantic for a over a century. Using nothing more than an eighty-nine-cent piece of 800 grit sand paper, a smooth plate of glass, and care, they brought the life back to the only hand tool most everyone uses every day.
It's been said there are two scenarios in which any tool - chisel, paint brush, stapler - is dangerous. The first is when a tool is used in a way other than it's intended use (the worst hammer accidents are often juggled).
The second is when a tool is dull. Likely everyone you know has accidentally cut themselves while using a knife. The worst stories involve applying more force than they should to pass the blade through their work, only to have the force let-loose suddenly and track a path unintended and horrifying.
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
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