Friday, November 28, 2014

How to make things in Lusaka


This is a picture of a local carpentry/upholstery shop.  The mission buys products made in this shop.  We were there to order a pulpit for one of the places where some members meet.  Cabinets on the left, furniture on the right and the treadle Singer sewing machine at the bottom.  One of the workers was cutting in the hinges for a cabinet door.  He didn't have a wide chisel so he took the blade out of his plane and was hitting it with a board instead of a hammer.  Whatever works.

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  1. And you think you need a whole garage full of tools- turns out you only really need a board. ;-) I like seeing hOw they solve problems... I never would have thought you could strap a washing machine on top of a bicycle!

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