"charlieb" wrote

And that gets to my question - does having the jigs and machines and
tools to make it easy to do - and use - "traditional" joinery change
what and how you design and build furniture - and how much do they
contribute to improvising?

Nothing new under the sun ... what's "traditional' was once a new concept,
and furniture "design" is historically based on variations of a few simple
concepts:

~ Ergonomics (although the Egyptians didn't call it that) - a chair/table is
a specific height because of where your knee joint is.

~ The availability of material, and tools with which to work it - a mortise
in *wood* is as wide as the *chisel/tool* used to cut it.

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