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Sharpen This (the Video) Now Available –
Because of the positive reaction to our “Build a Stick Chair” video, we decided to produce a new video on sharpening woodworking tools that delves even further into the topic than our new book “Sharpen This.” “Sharpen This (the Video)” is a 2-1/2-hour long video companion to our “Sharpen This” book. But because the video …
The Driving Dutchman –
When measuring my car and drawing up the plans for my first Dutch chest, I forgot two things: the handles and the caster assembly. Which means, as you probably can guess, that the chest does not fit in my car. After considering all the options – remake the handles, saw the chest in two like …
A London Joiner With 21 Years Experience –
“Joiner’s work is noisy, and they can’t talk while carrying it on, and that may account for joiners not being such politicians or thinkers as shoe-makers or tailors.” — A London joiner with 21 years of experience, quoted by Henry Mayhew, The Morning Chronicle, July 11, 1850 Share this: Print Email Facebook Tumblr Pinterest Twitter …
I Don’t Use These as a Rule –
Well that’s not entirely true, of course. I do use them when I need to make up a cut list from a full-scale drawing or story stick to tell a machine in numerical code (be it metric, Imperial or shaku) where to make the cuts. The cut list is, however, rarely necessary in the hand-tool …
Designing a Wright Table –
As a kid, probably the first furniture style that I ever became aware of was the Prairie style, the strongly rectilinear forms that most people associate with Frank Lloyd Wright. My dad had lots of books about architecture lying around the house that he used to help him design the two houses for our farm …
suzanne ellison –
This morning I braved the chill in a T-shirt (my nipples are now like drill bits) to fetch a couple boxes of “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” from the Lost Art Press warehouse garden shed. The shed, which was filled to the rafters in September, is now all-but empty. We are almost out of “The Anarchist’s …
Alter the Tips of Your Dividers –
Note: This is crossposted from Crucible Tool. Dividers work better if the tips match the job you’re doing. For layout chores, such as scribing arcs or setting out your joinery, the dividers’ tips need to match the wood you are using. Sharper tips will prevent the tips from skating on hard woods. And dull tips …
The $175 Workbench Comes Home –
I wasn’t the first person to use Southern yellow pine to build a workbench in 2000. But it sure felt like it when I built the above workbench for Popular Woodworking Magazine. At that time, almost all of the workbenches I’d read about and saw in workshops were made from European beech or white maple. …
Nick Offerman: Serious Fun –
(Photo: Thomas Wilhoit) Whether he’s playing Ron Swanson in “Parks and Recreation,” Forest in “Devs” or Frank Fisher in “Hearts Beat Loud,” Nick Offerman is immediately recognizable as that hunky actor with a twinkle in his eye and a lush crop of facial hair. So closely has he come to be identified with his mustache …