I fell in love with the Phillipine's back in 67-68 when I was
stationed at Clark. liked the country and the people. There
were many WWII survivors still around and we were welcome
with open arms everywhere that I went.
I've heard, now that a certain religion has gotten a foot hold
over there, that Americans are not very welcome over there. I
had a little Honda 160 so I spent most of my off time out in
the barrios away from the GI influence. Many of the people
that I encountered didn't have electricity and lived quite
simply. Of course it was much different in the city.
Amazing as it may seem to some people, often times manually
operated machines and tools are just as fast when dealing
with one of a kind projects.
These are a couple of examples of wood projects that were
done entirely without modern machines, only basic hand tools.
Boards were hand planed and scraping prior to finishing, no
sandpaper used, then french polished with raw shellac on a
fad, no brushes, sprays or poly's, hand cut joints, no modern
jigs or machines used to form them.
http://www.pbase.com/dennygraham/woodworking Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
