Despite what seems like common sense, John and I like to keep our retail network small and personal. We enjoy working with people who share our philosophy on craft and business. Those people are few and far between. Recently we began working with Best Made Co., a retail and online store headquartered in Tribeca in …
Lost Art Press Now Available at Best Made Co. – Read More »
If you’ve attended classes at Roy Underhill’s The Woodwright’s School, you might have noticed a printout of a book cover that’s tacked to the back wall – behind the coffeemaker and next to the poster of the Barnes foot-powered machines. “That,” Roy tells students, “is the cover to my novel.” Most people don’t know if …
Coming in 2014: Roy Underhill’s ‘Calvin Cobb: Radio Woodworker!’ – Read More »
A large number of Crucible Lump Hammers will go up for sale in our store at noon Eastern time on Thursday, Nov. 15. This likely will be the last batch of lump hammers we will sell before Christmas. This is our largest batch so far – Raney has been toiling for weeks in the Crucible …
Vickers’ reproduction of the Voysey Kelmscott “Chaucer” cabinet was a commission Do you really need that 2400-square foot workshop? I’ve lost track of how many retired friends of friends are currently building themselves shops. Most of these people moved to a rural location so they’d have the space to build. Once you’ve taken the …
Christopher Vickers, craftsman-designer of furniture and lighting – Read More »
300. Edward Turner was indicted for stealing, on the 4th of November, 1 saw, value 1l. 7s., the goods of William Beal, and that he had been before convicted of felony. William Beal. I am a sawyer, and live at Mr. Langton’s timber-yard, Narrow-wall. I lost a saw, on the 4th of November, from that …
When translating Andre Roubo’s “l’Art du menuisier,” we debated converting all of his dimensions to U.S. Customary Units or metric. After some discussion, we decided to leave them as-is for the same reason that we tried to maintain Roubo’s writing voice. This is a work of the 18th century, and so we sought to keep …
We have two projects to share with you today: a new poster and a giveaway related to the new expanded edition of “The Anarchist’s Design Book.” The Edwin Skull Chair Poster Next week we will begin selling a limited-edition poster that is a reproduction of a 19th-century broadsheet showing the chairs made by the Edwin …
Books that purport to be a “history of everything on a topic” are almost always crushingly disappointing. They are pretty, light on details and focus on the low-hanging fruit you could find on Wikipedia. When these sorts of books make it into my hands (usually as gifts) they end up getting pulped – so they …
Highly Recommended: ‘Atlas of Furniture Design’ – Read More »
While the lump hammer appears in English workshops in the mid-20th century, I suspect its origins are much earlier. Read more about this topic on the Crucible Tool blog. — Christopher Schwarz Share this: Print Email Facebook Tumblr Pinterest Twitter Like this: Like Loading…
Thanks to a 60 percent chance of rain today, we received our shipment of Christian Becksvoort’s “With the Grain: A Craftsman’s Guide to Understanding Wood.” John Hoffman and family are boxing up the books now and the parcels will enter the mail stream immediately. “With the Grain” will be carried by Lie-Nielsen Toolworks (plus a …
‘With the Grain’ Ships; Showers Blanket the Midwest – Read More »