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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...