{"id":8694,"date":"2026-05-20T19:51:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/?p=8694"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:51:46","slug":"for-you-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/20\/for-you-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"For you and me"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I enjoyed some instruction classes in the mid-1980s by the late, great Tage Frid<\/strong> at the old Woodcraft<\/strong> store at 313 Montvale Avenue in Woburn, Massachusetts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That store then was still the only Woodcraft, having moved north from Boston in 1968. Woodcraft started as a one-room shop in Boston\u2019s North End in 1928 and later expanded. Around 1990, the company started to expand nationally. Much later, the Woburn store moved to its current location, also in Woburn. Woodcraft is now 67 stores nationwide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was at the original Woburn store more than 40 years ago where I bought my Ulmia workbench<\/strong> that I still use. From then, I no longer had to use my own rigs. I had built my first bench in 1971. Before that, the first bench I used was inherited from my grandfather.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/23\/the-first-workbench-i-built\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Now back to the main topic!\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Even more fun and instructive was talking with Frid<\/strong> years later when I randomly saw him shopping at the former woodworking store in Cambridge, MA. (It became a Rockler but closed a couple of years ago.)<\/p>\n

As I searched the tools around the store, I saw Frid doing much the same as I was doing: managing ideas<\/strong>. Understand, this was the renowned Tage Frid! The man who, probably more than anyone else, brought and taught the skills of woodworking to America. To see him searching at the store much like I was, and then have the privilege and joy of talking with him, really struck me.<\/p>\n

Recognizing him still learning and thinking<\/strong> about woodworking, helped me understand that what I too was doing was healthy and creative. Searching, thinking, trying – woodworking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, as a woodworker, I am just a small fraction of a Frid. Yet, I hope you happily read here<\/strong> and it benefits you<\/strong>. It is meaningful and, ultimately, joyous. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I enjoyed some instruction classes in the mid-1980s by the late, great Tage Frid at the old Woodcraft store at 313 Montvale Avenue in Woburn, Massachusetts.\u00a0 That store then was still the only Woodcraft, having moved north from Boston in 1968. Woodcraft started as a one-room shop in Boston\u2019s North End in 1928 and later […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8694"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8700,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions\/8700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}