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Говоря как человек, который прочитал слишком много книг по деревообработке, есть несколько архетипов: книга проекта (”скворечник Bonanza“), книга инструментов ("маршрутизатор Rodeo!") и книги с черной водолазкой и беретом о том, почему я делаю вещи ("моя мортира глубже, чем моя душа” ). Новая книга Нэнси Хиллер, книга про английское искусство и ремесло . " не является ни одной из этих книг. Но вы, вероятно, догадались об этом, потому что там написано имя Хиллера. Вместо этого "Мебель Для...

Our warehouse began shipping pre-publication orders for “Welsh Stick Chairs” yesterday and is working on getting the remainder out in the mail today. I’m going to be a bit of a wiener here and say that I think our edition exceeds the quality of all the previous editions. This had little to do with me and everything to do with our prepress agency, the special printing press we used for this job and the press operators. In comparing the images among all the editions of “Welsh Stick Chairs” I own, I can find no image degradation in ours...

A fair number of the stick and staked chairs that I make lack stretchers between the legs. But some of my chairs have them. So I get asked regularly: When do you use stretchers and why? The simple answer is I add stretchers when the customer wants them. But that’s not a helpful answer for those getting started in designing and building chairs. First a little history: Chairs don’t have to have stretchers to survive. I’ve seen plenty of chairs that have survived 300 years or more without stretchers...

Joshua Klein’s biography of Jonathan Fisher, “Hands Employed Aright,” needs only a few tweaks today before it goes into production with our prepress agency. With any luck, the finished book should be in our hands in early August. Even though I’ve edited this book several times, reviewed every photograph and examined every finished page, I am continually struck by how amazing this book is...

Hey, wanna see a guy flush several hundreds of dollars and two days of work down the toilet? Read on. During the last week I’ve been preparing the stock for a week-long class on building a simple stick chair – it’s my first chairmaking course (cue the Depends commercial music). Last week, I bought some ash slabs and have been breaking them down bit by bit to get the right curves for the crest rails, armbows and doublers. And I’ve been trying like heck to squeeze out single-board seats for all the students...

There are lots of vernacular stick chairs styles out there if you do a little digging. Researcher Suzanne Ellison has been turning over a lot of rocks lately to find stick chairs in countries such as Sweden, Germany and Italy. Today she sent over a load of images of Irish chairs, and this one stuck in my head. It’s a fairly common form and common paint scheme. Interestingly, these chairs were referred to as “fool’s chairs,” “famine chairs” or “hedge chairs...

In our research for “Ingenious Mechanicks,” we translated parts of a codex from 1505 that was written and illustrated by Martin Löffelholz. In it, Löffelholz showed what are likely the first modern workbenches with a tail vise and face vise. During the translation, we also encountered a recipe for what we thought was a love potion. As “Ingenious Mechanicks” is a woodworking book, and I have no need for a love potion (I’m married), translator Görge Jonuschat and I skipped the love potion section...

Since June, I’ve been working on a book-publishing project that has ripped up my insides. I can’t talk about it yet – maybe in the next week or so – but the fallout has been odd. Each day, after 10 to 12 hours of editing, processing photos and designing book pages, I have been coming home to write like a madman until I fall asleep on the couch. As a result, I’ve finished two chapters for the expansion of “The Anarchist’s Design Book” and have just three more to go. Today I finished designing the...

A common question when I am on the road: “So when you aren’t woodworking, do have any other hobbies? Sports? Guns?” Answer: “I enjoy woodworking, writing about woodworking, listening to loud music when woodworking, reading about woodworking, drinking a beer while talking about woodworking and cooking.” So I am always the quietest person at a regular-person party. I know I’m weird. But I feel less alone when students send me photos like the one above...

Most woodworkers become adept at hiding repairs on their furniture or antiques. But some use this skill to fool a buyer into paying much more for a piece that is actually modern or has been cobbled together from several antique sources. The forgery trade employed many famous woodworkers, including Charles Hayward (by his own admission in his short biography). And there are many written accounts that explain the forgery trade. And it still goes on today quite actively. One...

After a good deal of wrangling and evaluating a lot of brands, we are happy to announce that five different designs of Lost Art Press T-Shirts are available again in our store.The good news is that we have found a good supplier of shirts. The quality and the price is excellent. As a result, we have lowered the price of the shirts to $25 (and that price includes free domestic shipping). Also good news: This 100-percent ring-spun cotton shirt is available in a range of sizes from small to 3X. These shirts ship to the U...

During the last five years, I’ve made considerable changes to the innards of the tool chests I build for customers. Most of these changes are details, really, but they are informed by the fact that I work out of a tool chest every day. The most significant of the changes is in the runners for the three tills. On the original chest, the runners for the lower till didn’t extend all the way from front to back. They stopped at the saw till (see above).The reason for this was to imitate several historical chests that also had a door to the lower parts of the chest...