Katy has completed a batch of 25 tins of soft wax that is ready to ship. You can read all about it and order some here.
It’s great stuff for the interiors of carcases, as a topcoat over paint, a finish for leather and a lubricant for tools. We love the stuff. All the wax is made entirely by Katy in the workshop here. She mixes it up, packages it and ships it out.
— Christopher Schwarz
Today we took Christian Becksvoort to the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill to see some of the buildings and – we hoped – some of the furniture. For more than a year, the meeting house and Centre Family Dwelling have been under construction. And the majority of the village’s furniture collection has been in storage….
Our youngest daughter graduates from high school in May and, if all goes as planned, Lucy and I will move house in July. From the leafy streets of Fort Mitchell, Ky., to the two floors above our storefront in Covington. That’s not a lot of time. Not only do we have to fix up the…
If you are in the market for live-edge slabs that are dry and ready to go, read on. The tree service I use outside Cincinnati has seven beautiful walnut slabs available that they have cut, dried in a vacuum kiln and are stacked and ready to go. I got to inspect the slabs last week…
In “Saws, Planes, and Scorps,” David Heim celebrates contemporary makers of quality woodworking hand tools and workbenches, from one-person shops that specialize in one or a few tools, to four larger toolworks that offer a wide range of tools. It’s a who’s who in the hand tool world, with interesting vignettes of the makers and…
When we make small corrections to our books with each printing, we also update the pdfs in our store so that everything matches. We also send out a link to the new pdf to all the customers who have purchased the pdf, even if the purchase was five years ago. We do this so that…
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