Work alongside competent craftsmen together with such short courses is probably the most sensible path to mastery of the various skills.

It was all at once, just after Cooke had returned to his country-land, that he began making his inquiry into the issue of locating competent craftsmen to do the work from the telegraph designs he generated.

But sometimes it seemed that the life of Jeremy had been assembled by a not very competent craftsman, who had allowed a number of small but important things to go ping into the corners of the room.

A thoroughly competent craftsman, he delivered commercially successful entertainments, on time, and within budget.

He has been characterized as "a competent but unoriginal craftsman", working under the influence of the Berlin Painter.

I never yearned to be bushi as you did, only to become a competent craftsman like my ancestors.

Brumidi is sometimes patronized as nothing more than a competent craftsman who, as the right man at the right time, seized the opportunity to gain life-employment decorating the U.S. Capitol.

The trouble with this kind of detailed analysis is it implies that any competent craftsman could carefully study the performer's techniques and replicate them--Hoffman's "preparation."

Reasonably popular at the time, modern criticism has judged Smith to be a competent craftsman of little originality, as most of his plays were based on earlier works.

Rheinberger was, to put it mildly, a very competent craftsman, and both these quartets are very well turned,No. 2 in particular closing with an impressive fugue.