Fujimigahara in Owari Province, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai, 1830-32. Metropolitan Museum, New York You never know what you might find when viewing Fujisan in a Japanese woodblock print. The tool the cooper is using looked very familiar and then I remembered the tools from “Woodworking in Estonia” by Ants …
About two years ago, I hatched an evil scheme: I intuited that Chris would be writing about polissoirs within the next six months. I also figured that he would eventually invite me to write on his blog. And so I slipped him a small mahogany board that I had finished to look like it had …
For almost two years now, I’ve been using a Lie-Nielsen honing guide to sharpen all my plane and chisel blades. It’s an outstanding little tool and was well worth the long wait for it to come into full production. Unlike the old Eclipse guides, the Lie-Nielsen guide is solidly made from stainless steel and bronze. …
We use a lot of mechanical pencils in our shop in a variety of lead sizes and hardnesses. We even bicker about it! (Megan loves .5mm lead. A lot.) One thing (I think) we agree on is that the Pentel GraphGear mechanical pencils are the most durable ones out there. They last at least five …
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With the dugout chair complete and installed in the Lost Art Press Mechanical Library, I can move onto the next item on my long list of things I need to build before I die. Next up is a Klismos chair, an elegant form of seating that emerged in Greece in the fifth century B.C.E. Its …
Some will ask, “why oak?” Besides its great strength and durability, oak has features that make it ideally suited to working this way. It is a ring-porous hardwood, a term referring to the way oak trees grow. In the first part of the growing season, oak trees put on a band of nearly hollow, thin-walled …
“Sacra Famiglia” by Andrea Polinori (1623), Chiesa di San Giuseppe, Todi, Umbria, Italy. This is one image you won’t see in Chris’ new book “Ingenious Mechanicks: Early Workbenches & Workholding.” –Suzanne Ellison Share this: Print Email Facebook Tumblr Pinterest Twitter Like this: Like Loading…
