Roubo Book-release Party is Full –
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New Corporate Wellness Initiatives –
Lost Art Press knows that healthy employees are happy employees. To engender a new spirit of happiness among associates, Lost Art Press’s human resources department is sponsoring a new initiative that will help promote wellness among its employees, foster a friendly competitive spirit between its two corporate locations (Kentucky and Indiana) and offer up some…
Search Results for “australia chairs” –
An assortment of JP chairs built between 1880 and 1900. If you’re a vernacular furniture fanatic, or you live in Tasmania, you may already know what a Jimmy Possum chair is. If you’re one of the other 7.4 billion people on earth, buckle up and read on about my journey to Jimmy Possum: an unbroken…
No Way to Run a Railroad –
We receive frequent letters from readers who are frustrated with the way we publish books. Our deadlines sometimes slip. Projects that we think will take a year end up taking two or three years. Some projects disappear off the radar and reappear later. One frustrated reader suggested we should change our company’s logo to a…
Into the Builderness –
Many woodworkers I know have a similar dream shop. It’s a gorgeous structure deep in the woods, which is surrounded by lakes, fields and wildlife. When I have this dream, I wake up in a panic. Growing up in Arkansas with my family’s 84-acre farm inspired me to do only one thing: Move to Chicago….
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Benjamin Seaton Squares in Old Mahogany –
Here you can see the color difference between the old mahogany and the new. This week I’m finishing up a run of a dozen Benjamin Seaton try squares for friends and customers (sorry, they are all spoken for). Oh, and I’m going to talk about building them on “The Woodwright’s Shop” during a taping on…
Good Wood is Like Good Glue –
This morning I finally cut into the stack of Port Orford cedar I’d purchased to build a Japanese sliding-lid box. I picked up the stock at Northwest Timber while I was working out in the Portland, Ore. area and the company shipped it back home for me. (I wrote a blog entry about Northwest here.)…
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An Old Woodworking Crank –
On Tuesday, for the first time ever, I felt my hand skills fade a bit. I was chopping half-blind dovetail sockets and I could not get the tail board to lock smoothly and at 90°. I looked down and noticed my hands were trembling. Weird. It could be that I’m still recovering from a nasty…