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OK, You Can Stay –
Anyone who has read “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” or worked in my shop knows that I dislike French-fitted cubbyholes for tools. I prefer my tools to roam free and migrate amongst my tills as they rise and fall in importance to the job at hand. I still think this way, but this morning I took …
Air-drying Lumber –
Fig. 4.11 The following is excerpted from the third edition of Christian Becksvoort’s “With the Grain: A Craftsman’s Guide to Understanding Wood.” It is, above all, succinct, easy to understand and perfectly suited for the furniture-maker. As important as what is in its 160 pages is what is not. It’s not a detailed analysis of …
Things Hanging on Walls –
Whenever I pore over old woodworking books, drawings and photos, I spend as much time deciphering the background as the foreground. There are always clues hidden in shadow. Case in point: I have copies of some 19th-century photos from German workshops. In one photo there are about 20 guys standing at their benches, pausing to …
More Soft Wax 2.0 is Now in Stock –
I promise you than Bean is *not* spinning on one paw in a fog. Katherine just posted a big load of Soft Wax 2.0 today in her etsy store. And Bean is clearly happy about it? It’s hot, but Katherine knows how to ship the wax in the summer. The lids have an internal seal, …
Chair Plans Now Shipping –
If you ordered the full-size plans for the chairs in Peter Galbert’s “Chairmaker’s Notebook,” they are in the mail to you now in a rigid cardboard mailer. The printed plans are $25 and are available for the next couple weeks with free domestic shipping. After July 5, 2015, domestic shipping will be $4. As always, …
Download: Free Plans for the Knockdown Nicholson Workbench –
Thanks to woodworker Donna R. Hill, you can download a free SketchUp drawing – or a pdf version – of the knockdown workbench I built a couple of weeks ago. Here’s the video in case you missed it. Donna (some of you might know her as the “Wood Wench” through the Society of American Period …
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