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The Sector –
The following is an excerpt from “From Truth to Tools,” by Jim Tolpin and George Walker, illustrated by Andrea Love. Share this: Print Email Facebook Tumblr Pinterest Twitter Like this: Like Loading…
Dovetail Layout with Dividers –
With our new Dovetail Template almost ready for prime time (I think it’ll be live in the store next week), I have dovetails on the brain. But who am I kidding – almost everything I build, and everything I teach, involves dovetails – so they’re always on my mind. I always use dividers to lay …
‘The Curtain Rises’ –
The following is excerpted from “Honest Labour: The Charles H. Hayward Years,” a collection of essays from The Woodworker magazine while the legendary Charles H. Hayward was editor (1936-1966). The columns are like nothing we’ve ever read in a woodworking magazine. They are filled with poetry, historical characters and observations on nature. And yet they …
Design from the Handles Back –
Presentation drawing. Illustration by Richard Jones In Chris’s blog post, “The 10 Worst Mistakes I Made as a Beginner,” one mistake he mentioned was “buying the hardware at the end.” I added a comment to his blog to say that when I was studying furniture design and making at college in the early 1980s, a …
Jonathan Fisher’s Tool Chest (and Tools) –
Immediately after arriving in Maine last week, Thomas Lie-Nielsen took me and some of his key employees to the Farnsworth Art Museum in nearby Rockland, Maine. The trip was to view the tools contained in Jonathan Fisher’s tool chest. Joshua Klein, a woodworker who has been studying Fisher, met us at the museum and …