Woodworking Skills Quotes

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood.

In Scotland, I have a huge barn full of woodworking tools. I love working with my hands. I basically just make myself bleed a lot. I'm very accident-prone.

My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is a work of art, after all, and I'd like to honor that gift and pass it on for someone else to appreciate.

Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.

How is the birdhouse coming along, Charlie Brown?" "Well, I'm a lousy carpenter, I can't nail straight, I can't saw straight and I always split the wood... I'm nervous, I lack confidence, I'm stupid, I have poor taste and absolutely no sense of design... So, all things considered, it's coming along okay!

I'd love to do more woodworking, and maybe will someday, but I wasn't brought up in that environment. My wife is better at woodworking, and most around-the-house skills, than I am.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.

But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it.

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

I got fairly good grades, but I was bad at woodwork. They said I tried hard, but the result was hopeless.

If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.

I built all the speaker cabinets myself.