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165 Hours –
One of the biggest benefits of leaving my job at Popular Woodworking Magazine – the best job I’ve ever had – is that I don’t have a 45-minute commute each day to the office. I have not squandered that dividend of time. I have spent almost every minute of free time during the last 44 …
The Dark Side –
Fig. 13-1. Other ways of working. Some users begin their mouldings with a round plane on a chamfer or a hollow on an arris. This is an excerpt from “Mouldings in Practice” by Matthew Sheldon Bickford. I have spoken to scores of people regarding the methods of making profiles with hollows and rounds that I have …
‘Mechanick Exercises’ Errata –
In our reprint of Joseph Moxon’s “Mechanick Exercises,” we missed page 169 when scanning the original. We’ve updated the file and will correct it at the next press run. Click below to download a PDF of the page to print and insert into the first edition. Our apologies for the error. Page 169, “Mechanick Exercises” …
Update: ‘Make a Chair from a Tree’ & Bandanas –
Good news. The printer has finished work on “Make a Chair from a Tree” by Jennie Alexander, and the book is en route to our Indianapolis warehouse. We hope to begin selling and shipping the book to customers next week. The book is in full color, 184 pages, hardbound and printed in the United States. …
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More Wire Hangers –
This week I’m building two prototypes for a lowback stick chair for my next book. There’s a good chance this form will be a failure. But if I don’t try, then it definitely will be a failure. Chair prototypes start with sketches and hours of staring at the hundreds of images I’ve collected from my …
‘The Stick Chair Journal’ Woodcut –
Editor’s note: With the first Stick Chair Journal shipping out very soon, we wanted to highlight the woodcut on the cover. >>Stay tuned for a shipping date!<< Making a Woodcut When making a woodcut you need to make sure to remember two things: The printed image will be a mirror of the image you see …
