This Just in:

2. Bob Sperber.

3. Those dead apple trees on Rt. 128.

4. Takayama.

5. The ceramics program at Boston U. W/ no kiln. (The Franklin Trust; so much money you could pile it to the Moon.)

6. Craig McArt.

7. George's piano with the backwards frame which was "excellent for Bartok, but not for Brahms."

8. "in Sweden we call it . . . "

9. "One of those Whole Earth vises."

10. "those nice little machines I had in Stockholm."

11. "Our Japanese friends."

12. "Just the barest fraction."

13. "Yeah, but the statement's not worth making."

14. "Minimal."

15. Swedish Hardware stores - " bunch of dusty bins, they didn't know what the hell they had, been there 30 years and no one knew."

16. "They were for garden gates."

17. "You can't lose them all. Wanna bet?"

18. "One year it rained for six weeks- when was that? We were scrapin' people off the walls."

19. "Well, the way you work . . ."

20. "It's just money in the bank."

21. "It won't change the weather."

22. "Yeah they do good work up there."

23. "Like they say in the Nike comercials, 'Just do it'."

24. Mike Renzi - "The best mechanic on the coast."

25. The flitch of quilted maple that wouldn't go through the machines, but hand planed, you could see half way through the plank.

26. "A lot of pickin' and pokin'."

27."Just get a little piece of wood, there's plenty in the scrapbox."

28. "A toothbrush makes a statement."

29. "Has anyone seen my small Japanese scraper?"

30. "Go in da wata."

31. The container of wood addressed to "Sr. Krenov, Stockholm" from the woman in Brazil.

32. The 12/4 piece of maple with sticker marks all the way through. "I had all these two or three foot sections."

33. " . . . so everything goes together nicely with no bad language."

34. " Some horrendous doodad."

35. " . . . and it had this little frieze around the top."

36. The walls in Sweden. (As opposed to stud walls)

37. "Try a couple layers of tape."

38. This guy who was the best finish carpenter anybody had ever seen... 'Where'd they get that guy?'

39. "We've never had anyone here who wishes he were somewhere else."

40. "If he ain't in jail, he's somewhere else."

41. (in) the container from Sweden

42. "Those legs go straight through the floor."

43. Joe Robb wood - "Literally windfall"

44. "That sweet little old man who said he owned a small trading company but later we found out that he owned the largest, most prestigious department store on the Ginza."

45. Ted Hawke's notebook - "it looked like one of Da Vinci's."

46. "Remember that I have some metric bits."

47. " That stuff doesn't grow on trees, ya know."

48. Zivko!

49. The cabinet with the cove on the bottom that was too big.

50. "Up at North O' Town"

51. The Villa Florence Hotel. "It's shaped like a well so you can get an interior room. It's a block from the St. Francis, right by the theater."

52. The little fret saw that was "no bigger than a hot plate."

53. The plate that flew off the lathe and broke (on a Saturday when there weren't many of us around) "We heard this crash and went in there. He just picked it up off the floor and made something beautiful out of it. That's not sawn in, it's all inlay." (Naoki's bowl)

54. "Maybe it's not for me to say, but . . ."

55. "Maybe it's better that way": Vidar

56. "There's only one place on an ellipse where legs work."

57. The letter in Budlong's desk.

58. "Real naivete can't be imitated."

59. "I (or Vidar) couldn't make a right angle to save my (or his) life."

60. "There's this guy in this village, and maybe, if you go to his shop on the right day, he just might agree to make something for you."

61. "Use that big black square of mine."

62. "Yes, but when will they make music?"

63. "You could always tell that person studied with Rubenstein."

64. Clapham's

65. "It's not my cup of tea, but it's good tea."

66. Veneering (in the old days) "Sometimes they'd put a layer on diagonally."

67. "People would call me up 200 miles from Stockholm, and I'd have to put a chisel in my back pocket and take the train out there just to put my crow's foot on a cabinet."

68. The skylight in the Japanese teahouse, built by the 13th generation teahouse maker, with its mullion slightly off center.

69. "What a joker."

70. "What abunch of jokers."

71."The $400 volleyball dent in my Suburu."

72. "KIRRA"

73. "Tricky fellows these Chinamen."

74. "Not bad for an amateur."

75. "The way the wind bends a blade of grass."

76. That piece of spalted maple that "someone must have wanted more than I did."

77. "This is just another real world."

78. "If you're not busy after lunch . . ."

79. "When you're alone in your shop, you invent ways to do things by yourself."

80. "The wall cabinet that Beatrice built."

81. "A little geometry down by the floor."

82. "In the olden days, they used to have screws in all sorts of lengths."

83. "They used to take the drawers in apprentice pieces out and put them in upside down, and switch them around into different openings."

84. JK TOOK 2 FEET

85. "And, oops!"

86. "It's amazing how dry this building is."

87. The warning label on danish oil - "It might as well say 'Don't Use It.'"

88. "You get the rabbet for free."

89. "You could put a big W.C. on it and sell it for $80,000."

90. "You pick yourself up off the floor."

91. "All these years."

92. The homey feel and lighting of the crafts guild's store in Stockholm.

93. "AAAH, give an old man a break!"

94. "In the 60's, the students were trying to get rid of all us old guys."

95. Yanagi

96. The Korean tea bowl made by an anonymous potter that is considered a masterpiece.

97. "We live the good life, we eat well."

98. "Hickory - thanks for nothin'."

99. "Once I left my lamp on too close to my cabinet. When I came back from lunch, the veneer joints had cracked open."

100. "It's the law of diminishing returns."

101. "I'm going to have to close the store."

102. "Who said he died?"

103. "Don't even ask, just go ahead and take it."

104. Hinges - They just keep getting worse & worse.

105. "This editor in England wanted to do a big article, so I sent him a bunch of transparencies and I never heard from him again. I can't remember his name."

106. "Just like shooting fish in a barrel, only not half as dangerous."

107. "The hinges I used to get in Sweden 25 years ago. The guy would put them in a tumbler with some rusty water and knock off all the burrs. I don't know for how many days or hours."

108. The bar clamps with toggle handles.

109. "Swed"

110. "Yeah, you put things in one gallery, and then the guy down the street wants to know why you have nothing for him."

111. Alan Peters. "He still mocks up every piece he hasn't done before."

112. The router I used to have that had a centered collet. "Nowadays you turn the base and the setting is off."

113. "We have to remember to thank David; we forget how much he does for us."

114. "Any word from Portland about that log of Doussie."

115. "And it was like, Wow!"

116. "My chance to be a hero, and I blew it!"

117. "I'm sorry for taking up so much of your time."

118. "At this point, my future is behind me."

119. "I'm at the point in life when they start counting from the other end."

120. "It keeps me off the streets."

121. "Last year, summer was on a Friday."

122. "There's a light at the end of the tunnel, and it's not an oncoming train."

123. "Well OK, but it's too early to tell."

124. "Not bad for an old man."

125. "Not bad for the shape I'm in."

126. "Aww, you'll be fine."

127. "There's still time time to ruin it."

128. "If Merikallio ever finishes that top, we can all go skating on it."

129. "One time I cut some frozen smelt on the bandsaw and it stank for weeks."

130. The $1200 music box movement on Fisherman's Wharf that was housed in a cigar box.

131. "It's a long way to go just to build a box."

132. "Yeah, but will it fly?"

133. "I don't even know why I'm here this year, no one asks me anything."

134. Hasselblad cameras - "You have to mortgage the house and sell the car just to get a new screw."

135. "We're not the Julliard school of wood working."

136. "When we were in the mountains of Sweden . . .

136. "I don't look bad, if you like antiques."

137. "I used to carve chains out of matchsticks. One time I got five links before it broke."

Collected by members of the class of '93