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Cambek™ Designer Doors Custom Carriage House Style Garage Doors
Wood Doors & Entryways

Cambek - Designer Doors â—†

Cambek™- Designer Doors® is a manufacturer of fine custom entry doors, garage doors, and matching millwork.

Traditional carpenters tools in Myanmar. The holes in the log are for chains that the elephants use to skid the logs out of the forest.
Rudy Christian

The Place for Trades in a 3D Printed World

The thrill of touching the master blacksmith’s work for the first time. Do I look happy?
Rudy Christian

Rudy Christian: Tools of the Trade

Ken (second from right) doing what he does best - reminding us that we are the stories we tell. As you can see, everyone is listening.
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Want to Trade?

Willa serves a crab boil for the instructors at the workshop at Savannah Technical College. One of the perks for tradespeople teaching!
Rudy Christian

So Now What?

Chase appears to be enjoying using the 130-year-old cordless drill (boring machine) we taught him to use at the timber-frame workshop the Timber Framers Guild and Friends of Ohio Barns held at the Pasco Museum at the recent Agricultural Progress Days held outside of State College PA. He also learned to use a pull saw and a chisel and mallet. A smile powered volunteer!
Rudy Christian

Whatever It Was, It’s Gone

Highly skilled and respected tradesperson Robert Yapp Jr. (top right with glasses) teaching a class at his grass roots “Window Restoration College”
Rudy Christian

Are Tradespeople the Canary in the Cultural Coal Mine?

A view of Lincoln Cathedral, now over 1,000 years old and a wonderful part of England's Heritage.
Rudy Christian

So, Why Don't We Build The Way We Used To?

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Paradoxes of the Preservation Paradigm

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Were Early Tradespeople Better Tradespeople?

Ron Staley (left), of The Christman Company, a sponsor of the cannon carriage workshop, and David Woodcock (right), former president of APT, join me in appreciating the workmanship of the students.
Rudy Christian

The Voice of the Tradesperson

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The Ecology of Conservation

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How Do We Save What We Have When We Haven't Saved Who We Were?

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Rudy Christian

How Can We Reunite When We Are One?

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Rudy Christian

Made by Hand--or Made by the Trades?

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The Tools of our 'Tradecestors'

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Rudy Christian

Do Tools Make the Man?

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Rudy Christian

Is It Just Me, or Are We Falling Behind?

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The Master's Rule

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Some Reassembly Required

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Rudy Christian

Preserving Tomorrow

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Can We Talk?

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Rudy Christian

The Barn Builders: Artisans of Agricultural Architecture

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Rudy Christian

Traditional Trades Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

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Rudy Christian

The Arts and Crafts of Trades