Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>Sounds interesting - I'll start lobbying to get it on our Netflix list.

I remember watching "Witness" some years back, and being pathetically grateful that Harrison Ford knew how to hold and use a hammer. Quite a contrast to a scene in some forgettable movie in which an otherwise intelligent female character is doing metal machining wearing a work shirt knotted at the waist to show off her midriff.

I think I've previously mentioned "Folly" by Laurie King, a novel in which the female protagonist is a woodworker. The author is one herself, and her descriptions of the character's feelings as she works with hand tools provide a meditative contrast to some intense psychological stuff. Great book.