He is to football in San Diego what Tony Gwynn has been to baseball, a master craftsman who could be anyone's next-door neighbor.
A proud, resourceful blue-collar craftsman, he could be taciturn and irritable; the relics of his military service in his garage fell into "the category of 'leave it the hell alone' or 'it's none of your goddamn business.' " As Tyler spells out on one page, rebus-style, "not all scars are visible".
The body is the shaft — in his narrow black craftsman's apron, Rees could be described as pencil thin — and the feet and shoes are erasers, as evidenced by the fact that soles are often made of rubber and feet are used to back out of a room after making a mistake (he shuffled backward), thereby erasing one's humanity.
On the one hand, the Mohists were plain, down-to-earth craftsmen, tradesmen, and soldiers who could be expected to value practical utility.
WE have few advantages over the German craftsman who built the original Amber Room," says Alexander Krylov, a 46-year-old Russian master amber craftsman whose long-bearded face could be an image from a Russian icon.
Because cartoons could be re-used, craftsmen often worked on source material that was decades old.
Last year, in "The Craftsman" (Yale; $18), Sennett suggested that skilled labor could be a way to resist corporate mediocrity.
The symmetrical groupings of the opening could be constructed only by a craftsman of Mr. Taylor's high level, yet they're also a little daft.
Some clubmakers were so talented, however, they could be compared to great American colonial furniture craftsmen, famous cabinetmakers like the Goddards and Townsends of Newport.
As market centres developed, however, craftsmen had less of a need to travel, because their products could be traded in these centres.
