 Are
you under the impression we set the parameters and codes to an automated
machine, go have lunch, and return to find your Custom Gates ready to
ship? Or that we assembled the assorted parts milled and ripped and cut
by a factory of semi-skilled workers?
Not an unreasonable expectation, given the production qualifiers of a country that seems forever in a horse race.
Maybe it's the nature and history of the trade itself, but at CPW the moniker of "Hands On" is less a cliche than a guiding light. Every piece, whether it is by Charles or Ben or those craftsmen long associated with us, is created with one pair of hands from start to finish.
This phrase, Hands On, like an idiom, watered-down and
battered like the driven snow under the galoshes of a Wal-Mart culture. At
CPW it means not only the accountability of the work linking directly to the craftsman, but the quality of life that ensues from decades of such an approach. The Whistling Factor, creeping into one's consciousness when one is engaged. Absorbed. The absorption of purpose that creates balance that creates a balanced existence.
This
is obviously important to Charles. The political implications of a country
with pride in their goods and products and those whose skills create these
products that support their families that in turn support their neighbor's products
for the sort of self-sustaining economies and communities that make for healthy
purposeful lives. All of it made possible by patrons like yourself. Thank you.
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