"If you have complicated grain, if you're complicated, you need extremely sharp tools and extremely skilled craftspeople.... You need to understand the sharpening as a part of the process, not an interruption of the process."

CN: contains some discussion of the events of September 11, 2001 in the first 65 seconds of the episode.

On the humble cabinet scraper, American identity, reaching for excellence, being deeply intimate with the sharpness of the tools we use, and directing our work towards compassion and away from fear.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/intimate-with-sharpness

For more on Garrett Hack, furniture maker:

http://www.garretthack.com/

Recorded 11 September 2023.