The Workshop for our Furniture

The workshop is outdoors and only partially covered. Sawing and drilling are done with a hand drill. There is no electricity. The only drill bit is 10 mm thick and already quite blunt. It is used for pre-drilling and then doweled with a wooden dowel. There are only a few screws, so the wood is nailed together. At our request, the table was assembled without nails.

The carpentry workshop for school furniture also works by hand. There is no circular saw. But the boards cut with an axe are ultimately as straight as if they had been cut with a machine. The result is very impressive.

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