“What knowledge is this which thieves may steal, mice or moths eat up, fire or water destroy?” — 13th-century Parisian preacher in a sermon on elaborately bound books. Share this: Print Email Facebook Tumblr Pinterest Twitter Like this: Like Loading…
Portret van een van twee Indische timmerlieden. From rijksmuseum.nl We now accept PayPal for all orders placed through the Lost Art Press store – that’s in addition to Visa, Mastercard and American Express. So if you’ve been hoarding money in a PayPal account, we have another way for you to spend it. If you are…
It’s a strange world where I need to write a blog entry about this topic. Recently Editor Megan Fitzpatrick and I have been getting e-mails and phone calls with this basic question: “Why isn’t Schwarz going to Woodworking in America?” Then they ask: • Is it because Popular Woodworking Magazine doesn’t want him there? •…
My daughter Maddy has almost run out of our second batch of Lost Art Press stickers. So if you want some of these three recent designs, don’t tarry. You can order the stickers one of two ways. For customers in the United States, you can send a $5 bill and a SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope)…
Worked like a charm. The old Stanley router plane turned up in the mail from a colleague in the States a while back, the box a little crunched and the threaded adjustment shaft was bent. Not a huge problem, but the thing was that it made it impossible to set the iron for anything less…
I spent the morning organizing and packing up more than 500 hand-drawn illustrations that Peter Galbert made for “Chairmaker’s Notebook.” Even though John and I have spent about 150 hours scanning and adjusting the images, they are still as remarkable and wonderful as the day we opened the box. As all the pages went back…
For woodworking I prefer wooden layout tools – squares, straightedges, winding sticks and the like. They are lightweight and so much easier to keep in truth than metal tools. While most woodworkers make their own layout tools, some don’t have the time or persnickety nature necessary to do it really well. If you are one…
It’s always good to work with people who are smarter than you. It’s even better if you can marry them. While John and I do most of the day-to-day grunt work at Lost Art Press, I’d be lost if I didn’t have my wife, Lucy May, to guide me and keep my head on straight….
In “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” I call out the thickness planer and the band saw as the two most useful pieces of machinery in a shop that is focused on furniture. But as someone who builds lots of workbenches, I would be lost (or at least, quite fatigued) if I didn’t have a beefy, accurate…
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