The original poster. We get a lot of requests to reprint our letterpress “By Hammer & Hand” poster, and now I am pleased to report that the project is in the works. Brian Stuparyk, the artist of the poster, has agreed to a second run (he will receive a royalty on each one sold, FYI). …
Joey. Whenever I write, whether it’s a blog post, article, book or simple email to a friend, I’m thinking about what readers may make of my words – not only my words in a literal sense (especially when I use a term of art, a foreign name or a four-letter expression that starts with the …
A Conversation About ‘Shop Tails’ With My Inner Critic – Read More »
No matter how long you have been working at the craft, you sometimes flirt with the idea that you can buy your way to better craftsmanship. I first picked up a crosscut saw at age 8, so I should know better than to fall for this false hope. But occasionally as I page through a …
Dick Proenneke looking down Glacier Canyon toward Twin Lakes. Developed May 1984. Photo courtesy of the U.S. National Park Service We are pleased to announce that we’re working on a new book about Dick Proenneke who lived alone in the wild Alaskan wilderness for 31 years. You may know Proenneke as the subject of four …
New Book: ‘The Handcrafted Life of Dick Proenneke’ – Read More »
This is the final tour in our series. I have one more workbench on site – the Loffelholz workbench – but it is upstairs and in use as part of a makeshift kitchen (we ripped out our kitchen on March 1 and then the project halted because of the pandemic). So someday I’ll post a …
Workbench Tour No. 10: Lightweight Commercial Bench – Read More »
The “Shop Tails” audiobook cover, and Carol Russell’s delightful fiddleback Tasmanian blackwood cat carving. One of Nancy Hiller’s last “jobs” (which she insisted on doing herself) was recording the audio version of her final book, “Shop Tails” (an often grueling job on a book that clocked in, after final editing, at almost 12 hours). We …
Donate & Enter to Win a ‘Shop Tails’ Carving and a Book – Read More »
Teaching and exhibiting at Woodworking in America – and launching a tool company – proved to be an around-the-clock yack-fest. As a result, we are just now putting the finishing touches on the Crucible Tool website and will almost certainly launch it this week. The other news is that we announced our second tool: 6” …
An interior spread from “A Visitor Comes to Covington.” Late last month, a package arrived from our researcher, Suzanne “Saucy Indexer” Ellison. I opened the package, saw it was a handmade book, and immediately set it aside. I was in the middle of teaching a chair class, plus my oldest daughter was about to arrive …
‘A Visitor Comes to Covington’ by Suzanne Ellison – Read More »
