Don Williams will be selling first edition plates from “l’Art du Menuisier” at his booth at Handworks next month. Don purchased these unbound original plates recently and has decided to sell them to the public. Real-deal copperplates are stunning things of beauty, suitable for framing. And originals from Roubo are quite rare. Don has been…
“It takes half a fool to make chairs and a whole fool to make baskets.” — Verge, an Appalachian chairmaker as quoted in “Craftsman of the Cumberlands” (University of Kentucky) by Michael Owen Jones Share this: Print Email Facebook Tumblr Pinterest Twitter Like this: Like Loading…
Katy has been busy – this weekend she made more than 100 jars of soft wax, which are up for sale in her etsy store. They are $12 each for a 4 oz. tin. I’m not only the father of the Soft Wax High Priestess, I’m also a customer. I use the stuff on many…
With school out, our sticker heiress (Maddy) is hunkering down for a long summer of lab work and unpaid research assisting a PhD candidate in Columbus. The good news: the lab work and research helps her as an animal science major. The bad news: The two jobs pay less than working the counter at a…
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When the messages to help@lostartpress.com start to get a little on the “Where’s my book you Nigerian scammer?” side, it’s time to do an update on the blog. Roman Workbenches The plan was to mail this book in early April. Like all complicated projects, we hit a couple snags (a premature baby, wrong grain direction…
Editor’s note: This book is available for immediate shipment and is $29. You can place an order through our store. No matter what sort of handplane you use, “Making & Mastering Wood Planes” is perhaps the best guide available to understanding, tuning and using these tools at a high level. Written by a graduate of…
I am pleased to announce that you can now purchase Nancy R. Hiller’s book “Making Things Work: Tales From a Cabinetmaker’s Life” in the Lost Art Press store. The price is $33, which includes shipping in North America. We rarely carry books from other publishers in our store. Why? Well, we sell goods made in…
The living room. The floors are done and covered in paper. New baseboard is on the sawhorses (the existing baseboard is being recycled to another part of the apartment). The fireplace is a disaster-in-waiting and needs replacement. I’ve restrained from posting about the renovations above our storefront this year because it could take over this…
If you’ve ever wondered who would win an epic battle between an 18th-century French joiner and a mutated lizard…. well you can keep on wondering. We don’t condone such things. But my daughter Maddy has now turned 21 and clearly is working the fighting lizard circuit in central Ohio. Here her boyfriend’s bloodthirsty gecko is…