We received the first samples of our latest T-shirt from the printer and are quite happy with the logo and the crisp way it printed on the short-sleeve shirts. The shirts are $25 and are available worldwide (shipping is quite reasonable). They are printed on 100-percent cotton on an American Apparel fine-gauge T-shirt. Because these…
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…
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When we started Lost Art Press, we kicked around several ideas for what should be the symbol of our small company. We toyed with a saw and then a plane, and we eventually settled on using Joseph Moxon’s compass. The dark horse candidate was to use a skep, a woven, basket-like beehive. The beehive has…
When I teach edge-jointing by hand, I am surprised by how many woodworkers (even experienced ones) evaluate their work incorrectly. For starters, every board has a “true face,” sometimes called a “datum surface.” This is the one surface that you should press the stock of the square against. This applies even to machine work –…
Katherine finished her latest block of classes on Thursday, came home and started cooking wax. Her email inbox(and Megan’s) have been filled with requests for wax. So here’s the biggest batch yet. To help move this batch of Soft Wax 2.0, Katherine enlisted Penny-Turkey, the other cat who hates my guts. Penny-Turkey adores Lucy and…
After an unholy amount of work by John, we are now offering international shipping to Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand for all of our products. Three things to keep in mind: International shipping is expensive. It will always always be more economical for you to purchase books through our fine international sellers. We are…
The Tale of the Foul-mouthed Countertop Guy can be viewed through a lot of filters: that of the artisan, the customer, macroeconomics and on and on. However the lesson embedded in the story has nothing directly to do with haggling, the value of craft or Socialism. Instead, it is about the word “no.” Run your…
Some quick items – none of which are important enough for a stand-alone blog entry. Anonymous blog comments. We don’t allow them. Period. During the last year, I have gotten lax about this. Because of a glitch, our blogging software made me approve every comment, and in the crush, I let anonymous ones slip through….
The most useful woodworking classes I took in college were actually in the religion department. Though I was a journalism major, every time I was allowed an elective class I blew it on Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism, Christianity and Judaism. I wasn’t comparison-shopping for spiritual guidance. Instead these classes offered me insight into the ways different…