{"id":30857,"date":"2018-02-14T12:05:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T16:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=30857"},"modified":"2018-02-14T12:05:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T16:05:49","slug":"a-carpenter-who-carves-vintage-radio-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/a-carpenter-who-carves-vintage-radio-sets\/","title":{"rendered":"A carpenter “who carves vintage radio sets”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Kim Elliott<\/a>, who shares the following story from the Odisha Sun Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Bhubaneswar: Only a lucky few get to live and breathe their passion and Rajendra Sahu, a carpenter, is one of them.<\/p>\n

From Odisha\u2019s capital city of Bhubaneswar, Sahu steals time to give shape to his imagination. He has been carving radios of varied shapes and sizes since past decade-and-half.<\/p>\n

\u201cI make radios just because it makes me happy. I return from work by 7 pm and start with the daily ritual of making radio,\u201d said Rajendra. He prepares the cabinet with plywood, sunmica and cane whereas the circuit board is affixed from discarded ones.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes around five days to assemble a radio. I browse through online sites looking for designs,\u201d said Rajendra, who also collects antique radio sets from various parts of Odisha.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up listening to the radio. There\u2019s a charm to it that the gadgets today fail to deliver. My father too was very fond of them. He would make radios, but I learnt to make them by myself,\u201d he added.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Continue reading the full story at the Odisha Sun Times.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Kim Elliott, who shares the following story from the Odisha Sun Times: Bhubaneswar: Only a lucky few get to live and breathe their passion and Rajendra Sahu, a carpenter, is one of them. From Odisha\u2019s capital city of Bhubaneswar, Sahu steals time to give shape to his imagination. 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