If you’ve ever wondered how a successful corporation can fall completely apart in just a few years, read on. I’ve watched a few of them do this – from the inside. Here at Lost Art Press we will soon wrap up the second financial quarter of 2022, and our financial sheet shows our revenue is …
I’m Sorry Mr. Schwarz, But You’re a Goner…. – Read More »
Lost Art Press is pleased to announce that Roy Underhill will be the voice reading our audiobook presentation of “The Joiner & Cabinet Maker,” which will be released later this summer. Roy and I have spent the day recording the first part of the original 1839 text, and we will work on the remainder of …
Roy Underhill Reading ‘The Joiner & Cabinet Maker’ – Read More »
A detail of the drawers for James Krenov’s 1977 “A Playful Thing.” Photo by David Welter. I’m a furniture maker first and a writer second, or maybe third (after, perhaps, being a master of tangential side projects). So, when I approached writing “James Krenov: Leave Fingerprints,” my biography of the cabinetmaker who was the founder …
You can now order the Lost Art Press version of “Welsh Stick Chairs” in the U.K. and Europe through Classic Hand Tools in Suffolk. Classic Hand Tools is currently taking pre-orders and will ship those out when the books arrive there (we hope in December). We are also offering this book to our distributors world-wide, …
‘Welsh Stick Chairs’ Available in the U.K. – Read More »
“Garden Gates,” The Woodworker magazine, August, 1947 “The man nowadays who is able to do a job at his own pace is one of the fortunate ones. Then to one he’ll either be a craftsman with a small workshop of his own or a man working at a hobby. A feeling of enjoyment so much …
We are in the middle of prepping hundreds of parts for a July 11-15 stick chair class in partnership with The Chairmaker’s Toolbox, and I am setting aside my aversion to plastic for this one moment. As Megan Fitzpatrick and I prepare the parts – straightening the grain, octagonalizing the bits and sometimes tapering them, …
OverDrive bits (left) work for shallow angles. Bits with longer lead points can tilt much more. One of the most common questions I get is why I don’t use Forstner bits much in chairmaking. The bits are readily available, make flat-bottomed holes and cut cleanly. The answer is basically this: The Forstner’s lead point is …
In our research on Roman workbenches and holdfasts, Suzanne Ellison has turned up some images I’ve not seen before that are a remarkable reminder that our tools, mouldings and hardware haven’t changed all that much in 2,000 years. Of particular interest has been the Roman fort Saalburg, which was built along the Roman frontier and …
Roman Tools, Mouldings and Hardware at Saalburg – Read More »
You can now place a pre-publication order for the expanded edition of “The Anarchist’s Design Book.” The book is in the hands of the printer and should be complete in early January. If you place a pre-publication order before January, you will receive a free pdf download of the book at checkout. The expanded edition …
New in Store: ‘The Anarchist’s Design Book’ Expanded Edition – Read More »
This June I’m returning to Germany to teach two classes at Dick GmbH, which runs a beautiful woodworking school in Bavaria outside Metten. My short course on sawing is fully booked, but there are still three two spaces left to build the tool chest from my forthcoming book “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest.” The class runs …
Build the ‘Anarchist’s Tool Chest’ in Germany this Summer – Read More »