Photo by Matthew Albritton Editor’s note: Last month we asked Kara Gebhart Uhl to help us with editorial tasks at Lost Art Press. During the last decade, John and I have taken on book projects that are more and more ambitious. And in the next 12 months we’ll be announcing several additional ambitious projects that…

Editor’s note: It’s difficult to pinpoint the moment that John Brown became a personal hero. Was it when I first saw his chairs? When I read his early columns for Good Woodworking? Or was it when I read his book “Welsh Stick Chairs?” During the weekend, Toronto carpenter Marc Stonestreet mentioned how inspired he was…

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The Lost Art Press storefront will be open this Saturday, Oct. 8, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to sell books, holdfasts from Crucible Tool, T-shirts, posters and the like. The storefront is at 837 Willard St., Covington, Ky. 41011. We have the new “Stanley Catalogue No. 34” in stock at the store, as well…

When we launched the Lost Art Press forum last fall we decided to make it a one-year experiment. This week, John and I are touring a printing plant that we use for Lost Art Press and we had a frank discussion about the forum during the four-hour drive. The bottom line: We’re shutting it down….

This week we pushed out updates to almost all of our books that are available via pdf. So… No. 1: Please don’t worry, the emails aren’t a scam. They are indeed from us. No. 2: What changed? This is a technical update – we didn’t change the editorial content. Instead, we added Bookmarks and interior…

The Lost Art Press storefront will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. this Saturday, Sept. 10, less than a week before Woodworking in America. We’ll have all our books for sale, plus some new T-shirts for Lost Art Press and Crucible Tool for $20 each. In addition to commerce, we’ll have both Roman…

We have revived seven of our favorite T-shirt designs – including our first shirt with the slogan “Rude Mechanicks Since 1678” – and they are now available in a wide variety of sizes and colors. During the last 13 years, I don’t think we’ve made a profit on T-shirts, but they are fun and we…

The content management system at Core77 gobbled up a big chunk of text in my latest column, and I failed to notice it until last night. The missing chunk has been restored, and you can read the complete column here. Or you can simply read the missing chunk right here. It’s pretty darn important. The…

Sweet jiminy I don’t need any more mail, tasks or obligations. If you have a woodworking question, you can usually find answers by using the search box on the right-hand sidebar. If you have a question about your order or a product, you can always send a note to help@lostartpress.com. But occasionally I do get…