Katherine finished her college midterms this week, drove home and made her biggest batch of Soft Wax 2.0 yet. It is now up for sale in her etsy.com store. Bean, shown above, is always happy to put on his “please-buy-my-mom’s-wax-so-I-can-have-treats” face. Note: This is always his face. This is the finish I use on my…
Lost Art Press hooded sweatshirts are now available for international customers with a reasonable shipping fee. The mid-weight sweatshirts are made in the United States by American Apparel and the fit is a bit slim. So you might consider ordering one size larger than normal. The sweatshirts are available in sizes small to 2XL. We…
For me, failure is like the first-person accounts I’ve heard from people who were saved from drowning or freezing to death. You struggle mightily. At some point, however, you stop and are gripped by calm or warmth. For the last two days, I have been fighting after being handcuffed, stuffed into a garbage bag and…
After many requests from readers, I shot a DVD with Lie-Nielsen Toolworks on making a Dutch tool chest, and the DVD is now available from Lie-Nielsen. At 185 minutes, the DVD covers all aspects of chest construction, from design and stock selection to hardware installation and finishing. The work is entirely by hand. In the…
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After a week of teaching at the Woodwright’s School, of course we felt compelled to post an excerpt from Roy Underhill’s “Calvin Cobb: Radio Woodworker! A Novel With Measured Drawings.” Above is one of those measured drawings: Roy’s plan for a mallet featuring a “rising dovetail,” from “Grandpa Sam’s Woodshop of the Air.” To download…
Most modern Windsor chairmakers, myself included, can make a side chair in about 30 hours. Two hundred years ago, chairmakers worked at five times that speed. Their shops were smaller than ours, their tools were simpler, they had fewer jigs and no electricity. How did they do it? I spent the last month traveling to…
All Lost Art Press books now ship via USPS Priority Mail, which arrives anywhere in the United States in one to three business days. From a practical standpoint, this means you can order Lost Art Press books up until Dec. 19 and be confident they will show up by Christmas. Until today, we have shipped…
Good news everyone. We found some more dirt. Our ceramics supplier has just filled our entire order of Lost Art Press Beer Steins, and they are now available for immediate shipment. The mugs are $39, made in the USA by an artists’ collective and hold 20 ounces of beer, bourbon or coffee. These mugs are…
We’re making progress on the Lost Art Press forum. Chris found us a platform, called Muut. It is cutting-edge and looks pretty slick. Muut also has some invisible features that appealed to us, such as its infinite archiving of posts (nothing can be edited or deleted, except by me, after you post it), and its…