> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Jo Printz > Reference:: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-18/traditional-woodworking-tool-maker-seeking-to-boost-skills/103103426 > Date:: 2023 > Tags:: #warp #blacksmithing > WeftLinks:: [[Economic value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft skills add value to other industries]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > Mr Trott in Kyneton is producing tools by hand that are in great demand. ### Highlights When the long hours working on films became unsustainable with family life, Mr Trott fell back into his passion for woodworking Now a blacksmith based in Kyneton, in Central Victoria, Mr Trott has turned his passion into a successful small business making metal-edged tools for woodworkers, carvers and furniture makers Mr Trott is one of the only people in Australia making hook knives, which are used for things like hollowing out the bowl in wooden spoons, but also makes other tools such as drawknives, Sloyd knives for whittling and carving, and double-handled scorps In 2024, Mr Trott will travel to the US on a Churchill scholarship to study under some of the best hand toolmakers in North Carolina and Pennsylvania chair maker Glen Rundell > "The mechanised options are loud, they're obnoxious, they are fraught with risk in that if something goes wrong, you don't just make a singular cut that's incorrect, they will tear out big chunks of timber and they don't teach you to work with the timber … it doesn't pay any attention to grain direction or understanding the medium."