The printing plant reports that Joshua Klein’s “Hands Employed Aright” was put on a truck yesterday and is headed to our Indianapolis warehouse. If all goes to plan, the book should arrive next week, and we will begin shipping out orders as soon as our warehouse can set up a special assembly line to fill …
The soap finish after three coats. After cooking the soap concoction and letting it cool for 24 hours, it became opaque and thickened to a mayonnaise-like consistency. Today I used it to finish the top of a worktable that is based off examples shown in the Tacuinum Sanitatis, a health book from the Middle Ages. …
My personal apron, which has been to heck and back. One of the best things we make, our Workshop Waist Apron, is back in stock. We have 500, so I hope they will last us a while. The aprons are $50, which might seem like a lot of money for something you can buy at …
(Improved) Workshop Waist Aprons Back in Stock – Read More »
Meanwhile, back in Ohio… I was walking in the woods one day, as I am wont to do, when I came across this fruit on the ground: I’ve mentioned previously that I’ve never seen a butternut tree around here, but this looks suspiciously like a butternut (Juglans cinerea). I looked up at the trees over …
I have finished writing the third and final book in the “anarchist” series, “The Anarchist’s Workbench,” which will be released in August 2020. We planned to release it at Handworks as a surprise (indeed, I am exactly like a bearded Beyoncé). But because the pandemic has postponed Handworks, we’ll release the book as soon as …
My good friend Carl Bilderback passed away tonight after a hard-fought battle with cancer. If you are a member of the Mid-West Tool Collectors Association (M-WTCA), then you almost certainly knew him. (And if you are not a member, then he most certainly would want me to twist your arm to do so.) I first …
Farewell to Carl Bilderback, Mr. Wonderful – Read More »
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Patching the floor with materials salvaged from another part of the building. Work at the Anthe Building is plowing forward with a few necessary diversions and delays. As of now, we hope to begin fulfillment operations on June 15. Our new fulfillment employees start on June 1, so they likely will join our efforts to …
Image: Berea College Archives In the fall of 2005 I found a message on my shop’s answering machine from Kelly Mehler, who had seen my Fine Woodworking article on designing built-ins and wondered whether I’d like to teach a cabinetmaking class the following summer at his school on the outskirts of Berea, Ky. I was …
Pine Croft: the Little Woodworking School with a Giant History – Read More »
Yoav’s drawing for his knockdown table “Merritt,” made with reclaimed materials, inspired by the Merritt Parkway Imagine this: You’re a teacher of woodworking. Your students are kids. The school where you teach is in a big city, and most of your students live nearby. It’s March 2020: Your school, along with much of the rest …
Across the Board: Yoav Liberman – Furniture Maker, Teacher & Finder of the Good – Read More »