The Complete Fly Fisherman – August-September 2019

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for as little as forty percent of the work.

He enjoys the process more than the prod-

uct, he tells me. “I take longer and make

fewer,” he says. Shaun pulls out a crate

of Japanese pull saws and hand planes

that speak to the fact that this is truly a

craft he has embraced. Once he bought a

machine to do a particular job and then

in the time it took the machine to be de-

livered he worked out how to perform the

task better by hand, and got it completed.

“HE ENJOYS SETTING A

SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE TASK

AND THEN WORKING THROUGH

TRIALS AND FAILURES...”