I'll come back and update this post, briefly discussing the history and the philosophical import of 'tools' , tool making; reflect on how it came to define a species, drive history in a certain direction etc.
For now, I just want to capture Adam Savage's unbridled joy and poise when he says
"It was so satisfying to make all these parts and slowly assemble a working, beautiful tool using my own hands. I know that I'm a machine operator, I know I know how to use this machine (the lathe) within some parameters. But the full marrying of my mechanical skills with the aesthetic skills has made the journey of making this vice something that is almost like a new lens with which I want to look at the world. Yeah, it's just increased my understanding of what's possible for me to do. And that's kind of an intoxicating feeling."
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