{"id":234,"date":"2021-03-17T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2021-03-08T13:48:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T13:48:57","slug":"memoirs-of-a-victorian-cabinet-maker-james-hopkinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/17\/memoirs-of-a-victorian-cabinet-maker-james-hopkinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Memoirs of a Victorian Cabinet Maker &#8211; James Hopkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This was a book that I was excited about when I found it in a second hand bookstore. Unfortunately, that excitement soon faded to disilussionment. Sadly, the bok has very little about cabinet making and is more a general autobiography. Unlike Thomas from the Joiner and Cabinet Maker, following James is a disaapointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Occasionally there was some reference to woodworking that I found interesting, and the book certainly doesn&#8217;t pull any punches about the nature of the workmen in the workshop, but its a forgettable book in the long term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t waste money on this book, I think there are better candidates for you library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"[S2 - 19] Memoirs Of A Victorian Cabinetmaker By James Hopkinson by Hand Tool Book Review\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F998397469&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=640&#038;maxheight=960&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a book that I was excited about when I found it in a second hand bookstore. Unfortunately, that excitement soon faded to disilussionment. Sadly, the bok has very little about cabinet making and is more a general autobiography. Unlike Thomas from the Joiner and Cabinet Maker, following James is a disaapointment. Occasionally there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}