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The Most Tenacious Nails Ever –
I have removed some difficult nails during the last 20 years, including a lot of manufactured cut nails and blacksmith-made wrought nails. Both of these styles of nails always hold much better than modern wire nails, which hold about as well as hot-melt glue or nails made of spaghetti. But today I had to pull …
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Influences –
The taste or style (or lack of it) of the hollowed tree-trunks of far back in the Middle Ages was probably founded upon (1) necessity, (2) usefulness, (3) the primitive tools of that day, and (4) the fact that there was no previous furniture from which their primitive imaginations might wander to other things. But …
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A Couple Months with a SawStop Slider –
The SawStop sliding crosscut fence (on a SawStop table saw), with the fence extended to full length. The most labor-intensive part of preparing for classes is, by far, the stock prep – especially for the tool chest classes I teach. For those classes, I crosscut pairs of ends, and pairs of fronts/backs, together so that …
Now Taking Orders for the Deluxe ‘Roubo on Furniture’ –
Last night at dinner I laid out the finances involved in printing the deluxe “With All the Precision Possible: Roubo on Furniture,” and I think I saw the blood drain out of my wife’s face – just a little bit. It’s like sending a child to college. It’s vitally important, and so you somehow find …
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Coming Soon: ‘Welsh Stick Chairs’ by John Brown –
A rare first edition of “Welsh Stick Chairs.” We’ve had to acquire three copies in order to find one suitable for our scanning project. I am thrilled to announce that Lost Art Press is bringing the classic “Welsh Stick Chairs” by John Brown back into print with a high-quality North American edition. I have read …
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