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I am not sure why I found this video The Last Punchcutter so cathartic, but I did.
If you don’t know, punchcutting is the first step in making metal type – the negative space for typewriters, etc.
(These days we have 3-D printers – fugetaboutit.)
This skill is an old and masterful act of patience and practice.
We need more things like this.