愛上木工小電影

片名：愛上木工 Falling in Love with Woodworking

導演：高岳峰 Steve Kao

演員：懷德居全体師生 Member of HDG
獨力製片：林鎮雍 Rex

本事：

在懷德居木工實驗學校 2007 秋季班成果發表 － 另類木工嘉年華會 的場合中，發現了嗎？每個人的眼睛都因自己的作品而閃閃發亮。好吧，Come and Fall in Love with Woodworking Together.

風災直問柯羅莎

強烈秋颱柯羅莎10-06橫掃北台灣，嚴酷考驗懷德居，森林夢工場幸虧屹立無損，但百年老屋經不起風雨摧殘，古厝紅牆斷垣壁，觸目感傷難復平，真的無語問蒼天，先在此記上一頁。

懷德居東廂遺址

古厝紅牆斷垣壁

台灣常多外來客，不祇新娘，還有動植樹。嘉寶山區夏日長乾旱，1997西廂重建時，嘉大教授廖秋成特別推薦原生樹種山枇杷，生長情形果然令人滿意，蔚為台灣庭園少見植生景觀。

原生樹種山枇杷

風災善後迅復原

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絕世無双工具箱

美國麻州鋼琴匠師 Henry Studley 在19世紀以黑檀、珍珠、象牙，玫瑰木及桃花心木製作這座華麗工具箱。

Taunton公司早期曾將這座工具箱，印成海報﹝18"x26"﹞，供木工愛好者收藏。現在創辦人把珍藏多年的海報，佈置在木工場內與大家共賞工具之美。

The history of H.O. Studley and his tool chest

Massachusetts piano maker Henry Studley built his magnificent tool chest over the course of a 30-year career at the Poole Piano Company. The chest lived on the wall near his workbench, and he worked on it regularly, making changes and adding new tools as he acquired them. Using ebony, mother-of-pearl, ivory, rosewood, and mahogany -- all materials used in the manufacture of pianos -- he refined the chest to the point that now, more than 80 years after his death, it remains in a class of its own.

Packing more tools per square foot than seems physically possible, piano maker Henry Studley's unrivaled tool chest also manages to be beautiful in the process. The chest stands as perhaps the most exquisite example of 19th-century tool-chest craftsmanship.

Considering how many tools it holds, the famous chest is really quite small; when closed, it is just 9 in. deep, 39 in. high, and just more than 18 in. wide. Yet it houses so many tools -- some 300 -- so densely packed that three strong men strain to lift it.

For every tool, Studley fashioned a holder to keep it in place and to showcase it. Miniature wrenches, handmade saws, and some still unidentified piano-making tools each have intricate inlaid holders. Tiny clasps rotate out of the way so a tool can be removed. In places the clearances are so tight that the tools nearly touch. The chest, which hangs on ledgers secured to a wall, folds closed like a book. And as the chest is closed, tools protruding from the left side nestle into spaces between tools on the right side. Amazingly, despite being so densely packed, the tools are all easily accessible.

Studley was well into his 80s when he retired from the piano company. Before he died in 1925, Studley gave the tool chest to a friend. That man's grandson, Peter Hardwick, loaned the chest to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s and later sold it to a private collector in the Midwest. That owner again sold the tool chest to another private collector, where it now resides.

Almost lost among the tools but no longer obscure to history, the name of the maker, H. O. Studley, and his Massachusetts hometown of Quincy are engraved on small plates just above his brace. Scraps of ebony, ivory, rosewood, and mother-of-pearl left over from his work as a piano maker gave Studley raw material for his tool chest and many of the tools it contains.