Several customers have asked why they are receiving emails from our store notifying them that there is an updated pdf of “Ingenious Mechanics” ready for download. Is this a scam? A mailserver error? Did chipmunks chew a CAT5 cable? No. There’s a new pdf available for you to download. When we make updates to the …
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Jögge Sundqvist, the author of “Slöjd in Wood,” was recently featured on the Swedish program Go’kväll and is shown building and painting a chair. The program is in Swedish, but you can still learn a lot from watching the video. First, it’s great to see where Jögge works and the incredible pile of potential parts …
Until we can get our act together and get Lost Art Press T-shirts back in the store, feel free to make your own T-shirts using our logo. We don’t make T-shirts to make money (unlike some rock bands). We make T-shirts because people ask for them, and because we need something to wear that doesn’t …
James Krenov presents his “Oak Parquetry” cabinet from 1997 to the class at The College of the Redwoods Fine Woodworking Program (now The Krenov School). Photo by David Welter. The process of writing “James Krenov: Leave Fingerprints” has left me with a few qualifications: I’m happy to sit before an audience and talk about his …
I can hold my tongue no longer. After a decade of teaching woodworking I have become fed up with schools, books and magazines that promote a jig that reduces the general skill level of the population. It slows you down. And it is one more silly device that gets between you and the craft. Decent …
Of all the workbench personalities, only The Undecider has driven me to reconsider my career in woodworking. Like herpes, when you encounter The Undecider, everything seems kinda normal at first. But then, inexplicably, you cannot get rid of him. The Undecider: Hey, I LOVE that Robo workbench on your blog. I was wondering if I …
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Read the other installments in the “Sharpen This” series via this link. Let’s pretend I want to break one of your fingers. The job would be easy if you held up your fingers in the air with them spread apart. It would be more difficult to harm you if you clenched your fingers in a …
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I’ve seen a blurry photograph of a detail of Chester Cornett’s chairmaking workbench and read Michael Owen Jones’s description of the bench in “The Craftsman of the Cumberlands.” At the time I thought: That sounds like a Roman-style workbench. And yesterday I found out that I was correct. Brendan Gaffney and I visited the storeroom …
‘Taller de San Jose’ 18th c. Anon. Coleccion Orden Agustina Recoletas. Photo: ARCA. Share this: Print Email Facebook Tumblr Pinterest Twitter Like this: Like Loading…
“Boy using right angle square in woodworking shop at the homestead school. Dailey, W.V.” Dec. 1941. Photo by: Arthur Rothstein. Photo courtesy of: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF34- 024421-D. “A craftsman may have an excellent knowledge of the standard measurements for all ordinary articles of furniture and yet fail to …