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Hey Buddy, Wanna Buy a Tool Chest? 23 Aug 2013 | 04:57 pm
The owner of the Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking is selling the tool chest that I built during a class there earlier this month. The chest is built from clear Eastern white pine. The carcase...
Benjamin Seaton Squares in Old Mahogany 22 Aug 2013 | 11:38 pm
Here you can see the color difference between the old mahogany and the new. This week I’m finishing up a run of a dozen Benjamin Seaton try squares for friends and customers (sorry, they are all spok...
My Supreme Suckage: Hand Mortising 22 Aug 2013 | 02:35 am
Other bloggers are wary of pulling down their pants. Not me. I suck at a lot of things, but I really and truly suck at mortising by hand. The problem isn’t really my results – I can get a clean, stra...
A Whining, Peevish, Venomous Virago 21 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
Summer twilight brings the mosquito. In fact, when we go far north or far south, we have him with us both day and night. Rather I should say that we have her; for the male mosquito is a gentleman, who...
Wetzler Clamps, a Cry for Help 21 Aug 2013 | 02:44 am
While the wood being sold at Midwest Woodworking last weekend was enough to make me salivate, I really got excited when I learned the company was selling off its clamps. Including, wait for it, a lar...
Ye Olde Unisaw 21 Aug 2013 | 12:22 am
The lumber trade began with a small shipment of hand-sawn clapboards sent from the James River settlement to England in 1607. The water-powered sawmill was introduced – in the autumn of 1611 – near th...
On Name-stamping Your Tools 20 Aug 2013 | 05:48 pm
When Ty Black started as a shop assistant last summer, he was bemused and amused that all my hand tools were stamped with my shop mark. “I’ll bet your kids are stamped with this, too,” he joked. Ty’...
Another 6-board Chest 20 Aug 2013 | 05:27 am
For me, naming things is akin to violence. So you can imagine how fond I am of the habit of people “naming” their pieces of furniture. But no matter. Today I finished up a six-board chest made of Eas...
Roubo Translation News 20 Aug 2013 | 01:04 am
This is going to read like a letter that recalls your car. Lost Art Press is committed to bringing the first-ever English translation of A.-J. Roubo’s masterpiece to market in March 2013. No, make th...
New England Planted, Prospered, Declining, Threatnd, Punished 19 Aug 2013 | 01:45 am
Beyond the great Atlantick flood There is a region vast, A country where no English foot In former ages past: A waste and howling wilderness, Where none inhabited But hellish fiends, and brutish...
