All your tools

I’m working on a commission.

Today, I noticed something: during the course of this project, I’ve used every major tool in my workshop.

Part of it has to do with the complexity of the project. Part of it is the efficiency of the shop. But what I like about this is the idea of using all the tools.

What happens when we bring every tool we have to bear upon a problem? What can we achieve when we use all of our skills? All of our influence? The entire workshop?

The flip-side is interesting, too, in the way of an exercise in constraints: how can we create a project using a single, versatile tool? What tool might that be?