“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguishes one man from another”  – Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
 
Ancient techniques of joinery and surface decoration are utilized extensively. These include mortise and tenon joinery, collaring, punching, chiseling, hammering and riveting.
 
These methods require specialized skills and are more labor intensive than just zapping things together with a welder, but we wouldn't have it any other way.