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How to Make a Slöjd Peg Board –
Birch peg board. The legend that is Jogge Sundqvist precedes him. I’d heard of him (and of his father, Wille) through Drew Langsner and Peter Follansbee, as had Chris Schwarz and John Hoffman. They’ve had the great good fortune to meet him. I, alas, have not. Yet. Chris was teaching at the Marc Adams School …
Men of the Earth –
To be a man is to be responsible: To be ashamed of miseries you did not cause; to be proud of your comrades’ victories; to be aware, when setting one stone, that you are building a world. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, (1900-1944) French writer, aviator, from “Terre des Hommes” (1939). Share this: Print Email Facebook …
It’s Handplane Inoculation Season –
Yesterday, Thomas Lie-Nielsen and I finished teaching a weekend class that introduced the students to handplanes – how to sharpen, tune and use them. Curiously, the class wrapped up a couple of hours earlier than usual, and we’d covered more material than in the last eight classes. What changed? We steered clear of a full …
Common Woodworking Tools—Saws –
It often occurs that an amateur, with a taste for mechanics, determines to go in for a small set of tools, and after having laid out four or five pounds at an ironmonger’s, finds by-and-by, to his sorrow, that his judgment has been at fault in two respects—first, in not selecting the tools most suitable …
Order ‘Good Work: The Chairmaking Life of John Brown’ –
You can now place a pre-publication order for “Good Work: The Chairmaking Life of John Brown” by Christopher Williams. The book is $49 and will ship in March 2020. If you order before that date, you will receive a free pdf download of the book at checkout. The book is in three major parts. One …
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Meet Caleb James, Planemaker –
The world needs more wooden planemakers – it can be difficult to find vintage hollows and rounds and complex moulders that don’t need serious work (or are hopeless). Matt Bickford has his hands full; Old Street Tool isn’t taking new orders while they try to reduce their order backlog. So today I was quite eager …
‘Make a Chair from a Tree’ on Press –
The chair we built for the step photos in this book, on display at Jennie Alexander’s celebration of life in 2018. When I drove away from Jennie Alexander’s Baltimore home in 2014, I had her somewhat-reluctant agreement that together we would publish “Make a Chair From a Tree, Third Edition.” Her reluctance wasn’t due to …
SOLD: Cherry Stick Chair –
The chair above has sold. Thank you for your interest! The chair shown here is one of the projects for the forthcoming “The Stick Chair Book.” The editorial purpose of this chair is to demonstrate how to transform a design by using vintage details. Unlike most of my chairs, which are about chamfers and sharp …
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