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Some pictures from the workshop and from the historic part of the city of Amsterdam where I live and work.

Planing a stick

Drilling the hole in the end of stick. It’s a Drummond lathe

Turning a button

Pictures are made by Melanie Beck

Bending a nearly finished stick

The workshop lies close to the Nieuwmarkt. This is a nice square, with in the middle of it one of the medieval gates to the city, the Sint Antoniespoort, that was build in 1488. It is now called ‘de Waag’ because in 1617 it was converted to a civic weighing-house for excisable merchant-goods.

  ©  Basil de Visser 1999