sruss3

Winter of 1975.... I clearly remember the feeling of excitement when I discovered the Fine Woodworking magazine. Finally, like souls were putting to paper their inspirations of the craft that had driven me since childhood. That wonderful find was eclipsed by The Cabinetmakers Notebook. To pare down the words that could so easily flow, I thank you James Krenov... now, and for the rest of my days, for the for the gifts you so unselfishly gave. Your skill, so dandy and fine as it was, played second fiddle to the guidance of your perspective. Your love of the craft, filtered through a very fine you, has smacked a generation or so in a way unlike any other. You leave this earth with your gentle mark planted firmly. I thank you, thank you, thank you... (echoed I'm sure by thousands) thank you, and farewell.

A friend you never met,
Russ