Dave Evans
speaker
2,777 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 6 Jul
Dave Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's not the perfect fire hydrant wrench.
It's the real one.
All the hours I spent making this thing started with a great big block of brass and it ended up being a very specific thing.
It's very much like sculpture, you know, like, you know, Michelangelo releasing the angel from the marble.
I'm in the process of releasing the wrench from the block.
And if all I want is the end result,
then everything I did up to that simply doesn't matter.
And every mistake I make is in the way and a problem.
As opposed to, yes, I need to pay enough attention that this thing will actually work when it's all said and done, that matters.
However, was I present at the time?
Was I actually noticing and learning how to use the machine tools?
Was I noticing how a sharpened tool works differently than a dull tool?
Did I understand the difference between brass and steel?
Did I get the feel that I actually feel
And you can if you do this right.
You can feel the metal cutting in your hands.
And do you understand that experience?
And now I'm actually being a maker, not just I completed making.
And so if everything's just the outcome, when it's all done, by the way, the second I finish making that wrench, how long does the moment of being done last?
A microsecond?
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