The Anarchist’s Gift Guide begins tomorrow (Nov. 1) on my blog at Popular Woodworking Magazine. The entries will appear every three days through the month of November. Anarchist’s Gift Guide is a yearly thing I do that recommends mostly small, inexpensive and useful shop items (the least expensive item in this year’s guide is .89 …
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Two 40-year-old settin’ chairs spruced up with white paint. I first reached out to an Appalachian chairmaker in about November 2019. It was before this project came about, before the search started in earnest to find chairmakers in the region. Our initial phone conversation discussed the details about an upcoming two-day visit. I struggled to …
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The comb-back, shown in my personal office. This stick chair features some of my favorite details on older chairs: low side stretchers (with no medial stretcher), plus faceted short sticks and a newly designed skinny armbow. I’m selling it via a random drawing. Details on the drawing are below. Here are some notes on the …
Paul Murrett, working on a seven-stick stick chair during an early 2023 class. Next Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, at 10 a.m. Eastern, bench spaces go on sale for January-June 2024 Covington Mechanicals classes at the Lost Art Press storefront. (And we’re excited to announce that both Roy Underhill and Matt Cianci we be once again …
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The first floor of the Anthe building on Saturday. The retail store is coming along. All the drywall is required by the county for fire suppression. When you rehabilitate an old building, your plans have to change (almost daily) to keep things moving forward and to code. The “code” part of the project is what …
Whenever I finish building a massive workbench in oak, I think: This thing is going to last a long, long time. Hubris. For proof, just ask Ryan Bowen, of Charlotte, North Carolina. Ryan had built a “lightweight Roubo” workbench about five years ago. It was built using almost no glue. All the joints are pegged …
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