At 10:43 31/05/01 -0700, Faure, Marin, wrote
>the description of his "final exam." The apprentices were given a flat
>piece of
>steel and a round bar. Using only hand tools and no measuring devices of
>any kind,
>they had to create a square hole in the flat sheet and square the round bar
>so that the bar fit in the hole perfectly no matter how you inserted
>it. I doubt there
>are many people today who could accomplish such a task (Royce apparently
>did it
>quite easily).
When I was going to university I had a part time job in a cabinet makers
shop. The entire hiring process (resume, application, interview etc)
consisted of being handed a lump of rough lumber, a square, handsaw, and a
plane, and told to produce a near as perfect cube as possible. The
dimensions didn't matter but it had to be a cube. The exercise remains to
this day as the most difficult woodworking I've ever done.
Rick Grant
1959 Series II "88"
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