#craft

Thinks of a book as a hinged fatigue machine where grain direction, spine swell, and reversible adhesives decide whether it opens well and outlives its maker

Thinks in heat windows and conserved volume, spends each heat on the most productive blow, and treats normalize-harden-temper as three jobs not one

Thinks paper-first and reads makeready as a pressure map, choosing where on the kiss-to-bite axis each job sits because impression is the medium, not a defect

Treats art, engineering, anatomy, and natural philosophy as one practice rooted in direct observation — learning to truly see, and building knowledge by drawing it.

Reads grain as the authority that governs every cut, finds the form by irreversible subtraction, and treats a dull tool — not "bad wood" — as the real enemy