I have no delusions that my interests and depth of pondering are going to appeal to a large group, nor do I have any interest in the whole fascination with brevity when brevity gives an incomplete picture with overconfident information gatherers running around and saying “according to dave _____” with horrifyingly inaccurate statements following.
I’m also not that deluded to think many people are quoting me, but a few have.
However, I recognize as a reader initial of Larrin’s metal stuff on knife steel nerds that it was superb for me (and more concise than my writing), but I would guess the average person who isn’t trying to use something and pick the cow patties to find the corn – well, they probably think the articles on larrin’s site are too long or confusing.
“Just tell me what’s good!”
So as I write new posts and then categorize them, I’m going to put a link just below the title “give me the short version!” that distills the main point from the posts without the pondering and without the pictures. I’ll also gradually work backward through useful older posts and add the same thing to each.
I’m never the consumer of this type of thing, but I think almost everyone else is.
So if you read the posts and lose track, you can hit the easy button and see what I think in outline or in shorter writing. I’ll start with the ruby stone.
Of Making by Hand with Wood and Steel 