This week we will begin selling laser-cut templates for the Staked Armchair in “The Anarchist’s Design Book: Expanded Edition,” and I have received more than a few raised eyebrows and cutting remarks about the templates. After all, isn’t this a Welsh stick chair of the kind made famous by John Brown? The guy who said …
We are pleased to announce that after years of work, revisions, agita and waiting, that you can now watch the great video “Make a Chair From a Tree” streaming on virtually any device. The video, shot by Anatol Polillo, has been digitized and is available through our store for $25. When you order the video, …
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When I built my chest for “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” I didn’t include any chest lifts. Why? I don’t know. I had planned on making some intricate rope beckets. But I didn’t. I guess I’m just an idiot. Months later, Roy Underhill showed me how to make “dog bone” lifts for a chest. He makes …
Dr. Jeffery Hill and Harper Haynes, our summer intern, during a photo shoot in our offices. The new book will show how to apply dressings for a wide variety of wounds and situations. I’m almost always an open book when it comes to talking about the books we are working on at Lost Art Press. …
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Part 1 includes the drinking of alcoholic beverages in the workshop and at the work site, the practice of footings and fees collected in the workshop and drinking after the workday ended. Before water was clean and safe to drink the consumption of cider, ale and wine was a normal activity. Cider, cyder or sider …
The workbench that Mike Siemsen builds in the DVD “The Naked Woodworker” doesn’t have a single vise, but it can perform all the standard woodworking operations. To prove this point, we asked Mike to make a short video that demonstrated how to use this Nicholson-style workbench for planing, sawing and chiseling tasks. Mike, always the …
I am pleased to announce that Lee Valley Tools, Lie-Nielsen Toolworks and Tools for Working Wood will be carrying Christian Becksvoort’s first book with Lost Art Press: “With the Grain: A Craftsman’s Guide to Understanding Wood.” The book should be in our warehouse (um, John Hoffman’s garage) in the next two or three weeks. You …
Editor’s note: The following account was written by Robert Wearing, the author of “The Essential Woodworker,” which is one of the best modern books on handwork. Period. End of story. In this entry, Wearing recounts his woodworking training after World War II and his connection to Edward Barsnley. “The Essential Woodworker” is available in our …
