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You Aren’t Sharpening Enough (And I’m not, Either) –
If a students shows me a tool during class and asks: “Should I s….” I cut them off. “Yes.” I have found that when you ask yourself if a tool is dull, the poor pathetic thing is way past being dull and is on its way to getting chipped and trashed. I think you need …
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My Old Nemesis Titivillus –
Detail of a 15th-century misericord from St. Laurence’s Church, Ludlow, England. Back in 2016 while working on blog posts about the woodworkers depicted in misericords I encountered a devilish creature holding a scroll of paper. At the time I thought he was just one of the many little demons carved on misericords. Recently, I found …
‘The Joiner and Cabinet-Maker’ Historical Reprint Ships Next Week –
After fighting printing plant delays for the last eight months, we received good news on Friday. Our historical reprint of “The Joiner and Cabinet-Maker” was complete and being trucked to our warehouse in Indiana – weeks ahead of schedule. It should arrive Monday or Tuesday. Then the warehouse will start shipping out the pre-publication orders …
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Richard Jones: My Approach to Writing About Timber Technology –
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of blog posts by Richard Jones, who has written a detailed book about timber technology that required hundreds of hours of research, which he talks about here. The book is scheduled to be released in early 2018. — Kara Gebhart Uhl My tentative foray into writing …
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Errata and Clarifications for ‘The Anarchist’s Tool Chest’ –
I’m finishing up the corrections today to “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” for the second printing. There are four significant factual errors we’ve corrected, listed below, and three clarifications to the text that might help you through some muddled language on my part. We also cleaned up about 50 typographical errors. While that’s not terrible for …
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The Manner of Planing and Trying a Piece of Stuff Square –
First face. Planing across the grain is easy work. Work the high spots until they’re the same as the low spots on one face of the board. This is an excerpt from “The Art of Joinery” by Joseph Moxon; commentary by Christopher Schwarz. Now we get to the fun part: Putting the tools to use. Moxon’s …
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