contemplating antique tool and machine restoration, burdened by unspeakable desires…
watching as long-neglected beautiful things are reverently taken apart, stripped down to their smallest components; every part of them laid out and meticulously examined so that each can be given the best possible treatment; using all the best possible tools and materials
until they can be lovingly reassembled; every bit of them having been brushed clean, rubbed smooth, polished, oiled — generally lavished with precisely the amount and quality of care needed to make the whole of them shine and purr and perform as well as the day they were made

















