"mike hide" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:...
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> "Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> On Amateurism
>>
>> MR. FITZGERALD: I read that you began making furniture professionally
>> in 1960. Is that correct?
>>
>> MR. KRENOV: I've never made furniture professionally.
>>
>> MR. FITZGERALD: Well, that you sold furniture.
>>
>> MR. KRENOV: Yes. Well, I'm an amateur and I always will be. That's
>> the way I want to die. I'm an amateur by nature and I'm an amateur
>> in fact. And David Pye wrote somewhere that the best work of this
>> century would certainly be done by amateurs.
>>
>>
>> On Making A Living At WoodDorking
>>
>> MR. FITZGERALD: What did you advise them? When you were advising the
>> students on how to make a living at this, what would you tell them? How
>> to sell - how would they sell their furniture?
>>
>> MR. KRENOV: Well, my standard formula was the better work you do, the
>> more chance that you'll starve.
>>
>>
>> On What The Best Wood Is
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>> MR. FITZGERALD: What's your favorite wood?
>>
>> MR. KRENOV: Oh, I have no favorite wood. If it's real nice, it could
>> be anything really.
>>
>> MR. FITZGERALD: You fit the wood to match the job, or do you select the
>> wood first?
>>
>> MR. KRENOV: They grow together. Everything grows together.
>>
>> MR. FITZGERALD: What kind of -
>>
>> MR. KRENOV: You close your eyes and you think, well, if the table's
>> all black that's no good. And if it's all white, like maple or
>> something, that's no good. What else have we got? We've got
>> mahogany, we've got oak, we've got this and that and the other
>> thing. Search and hope and find something that finally commits you to
>> feel, well, yes, it would look nice - the chair would look nice in
>> this wood, and it would work well. It glues well, and the pieces I have
>> are dry and fine. Yes, I think I'll do it that way.
>>
>>
>> On The Best Finish
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>> MR. FITZGERALD: What kind of finish do you like to put on it?
>>
>> MR. KRENOV: As little as possible. Polish sometimes.
>>
>>
>> On Tage Frid
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>> MR. FITZGERALD: Did you know Tage Frid?
>>
>> MR. KRENOV: Oh, I tried to play tennis with him up in Aspen, but he
>> wasn't sober, so it didn't turn out very well. No, I didn't know
>> him. I didn't know him.
>>
>>
>> Read the whole thing at:
>>
>> http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/krenov04.htm
>>
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> If you are looking for a bunch of dumb answers then here they are
> ......mjh
>