Studley Chest
2004-12-07 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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"Massachusetts piano maker Henry Studley built his magnificent tool chest over the course of a 30-year career
at the Poole Piano Company. The chest lived on the wall near his workbench, and he worked on it regularly, making changes and adding new tools as he acquired them. Using ebony, mother-of-pearl, ivory, rosewood, and mahogany -- all materials used in the manufacture of pianos -- he refined the chest to the point that now, some 75 years after his death, it remains in a class of its own.
Considering how many tools it holds, the famous chest is really quite small; when closed, it is just 9 in. deep, 39 in. high, and just more than a foot and a half wide. Yet it houses so many tools -- some 300 -- so densely packed that three strong men strain to lift it."
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Date: 2004-12-07 01:18 pm (UTC)Awesome.
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Date: 2004-12-07 10:58 pm (UTC)Now I want to go through each tool and find out what it was used to do. Do they have this on display in a museum somewhere? There can be such a feeling of satisfaction working with you hands to create something - or maintain something too. The most wonderful things are ones that perfectly combine form and function, this is a masterpiece.
This guy was a Master Craftsman of the highest degree.
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