You can now purchase “The Joiner and Cabinet Maker” – complete and unabridged – for your Kindle, iPad or any other reader that accepts ePub files. The price is $16. You can purchase the Kindle edition here. The ePub version for iPad iPhone and other ePub reader is here. Like all our electronic products, these …
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For much of the past week I have been traipsing around New England doing research and photography for the late-2014 book “Virtuoso: The Tool Cabinet and Workbench of Henry O. Studley.” More precisely, I was tracking down the four known bench vises with similarity to the two exquisite examples on Studley’s bench. (To understand fully …
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In the Spring 2018 issue of Pins & Tales (the Society of American Period Furniture Makers‘ e-magazine), Martin O’Brien, a professional furniture maker, stone carver and well-known conservator, reviewed Mary May‘s “Carving the Acanthus Leaf.” “As an instructional text, it probably has more process images than any other book on carving that I own,” O’Brien …
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One of the important parts of my book on Roman workbenches concerns holdfasts. Likely a Roman invention, the origin of the holdfast and its early form remains a bit of a mystery. Modern sources, such as Roger Ulrich’s “Roman Woodworking,” don’t shed much light on the tool. Instead these sources focus on what the …
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Peter Follansbee has built a tool chest that shames us all when it comes to adding a little flash. No, he didn’t opt for the airbrushed Thundarr the Barbarian on the lid that I suggested. Instead he used “odd bits” guides for his tool trays. These “odd bits” – pieces of oak he used in …
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“Technical knowledge is harder to kill than any other kind, and is seldom subjected to religious, political, or military persecution.” — John Gloag, “A Social History of Furniture Design: From B.C. 1300 to A.D. 1960” (Crown) Share this: Print Email Facebook Tumblr Pinterest Twitter Like this: Like Loading…