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   flairwoodworks | Feb 27, 2009 09:09pm | #1

   Great story, John. Inspirational. I think I know what I'll do today. Maybe I'll close my eyes too.

   Chris @ www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com
   (soon to be www.flairwoodworks.com)

    - Success is not the key to happines.  Happiness is the key to success.  If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

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   JohnT8 | Feb 27, 2009 11:29pm | #2

   I just don't feel warm and fuzzy at the idea of using the table saw with my eyes closed.

    jt8

   lotsa worse things happen to better people than me every day. --Snort

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   MBerger | Feb 27, 2009 11:50pm | #3

   I had a great phone conversation a few weeks back with a FW reader who is blind. He uses our Web site with a software application called SHARK (or something like that), which basically reads the site to him as he moves his mouse around the page. He's even able to listen to our videos, so he's able to build projects and learn techniques from our site! Pretty inspiring stuff.

   Matt Berger
   Fine Woodworking

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   EdgeGrain | Feb 27, 2009 11:57pm | #4

   A number of years ago there was a blind fellow where I worked. In conversation I surprisingly learned he was a woodworker. He invited me to his shop which was on the 3rd floor of an old house he and his family lived in. When I arrived his wife showed me the stairs and told me to go on up. It was so odd to enter a totally dark room and hear a tablesaw cutting wood. When the saw stopped I asked if I could turn on the lights - he laughed heartily.

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   DonfromUtah | Feb 28, 2009 08:29am | #5

   My Uncle Armand was a blind woodworker.  My Aunt insisted he turn the lights on for her peace of mind.