Mark Hennebury
Passion.

Woodworking, above all else is about passion!

We dont see what they are looking at. Our eyes are blind, our minds are numb.

Most people have never actually looked at a piece of wood.. I mean really looked.

Take a pile of sawdust press it into a shape like a Queen anne table paint it red and put it in a furniture showroom, most people will think that its beautiful Mahogany table.

Show them up close in minute detail what goes into a real piece of furniture, then take them back to the first one you showed them.

You will then have opened someones eyes and mind forever.

Take them to a woodworking course, fill their head all the fascinating beauty of wood , the weight, the textures , smells, colors, the cells structure, get them to tune up a handplane and make magnificent shavings and then watch them holding them up in the air like a holy offering. Then watch them gently running their fingers over the perfectly planed surface: you have them hooked... for good, life as they once new it is over. You now have a woodworker if only in spirit at this point.