Perhaps in no branch of our manufactures has England become more famous than in that of those prime necessaries of the workman—his tools. According to an old-fashioned saying—we were almost saying saw—”Tools are half the battle.” It might be said three-fourths. And from the earliest days, when one in boyhood frequented workshops and watched with…
FIG. 1. TYPICAL CHAIR OF THE PERIOD, WITH SHAPED SEAT. This particular chair was made by the halved method given at D, Fig. 2. This is an excerpt from “The Woodworker: The Charles H. Hayward Years: Volume IV” published by Lost Art Press. Most readers know that the vast majority of chairs are made by tenoning (and sometimes…
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Drilling spindle holes using fingers as meat bushing in the hole through the arm. Share this: Print Email Facebook Tumblr Pinterest Twitter Like this: Like Loading…
Editor’s note: The below entry is part of a series of articles we have commissioned Brian Anderson to write about André Roubo in preparationd for the publication of “To Make as Perfectly as Possible: Roubo on Marquetry.” Brian, the translator for “Grandpa’s Workshop,” also wrote this entry on Roubo’s famous dome. It must have been…
About 48 hours to go. As I write this, that is my estimate of when I get to pass off the 40,000 words and 500 pictures of the manuscript for “VIRTUOSO: The Tool Cabinet and Workbench of Henry O. Studley” into the custody of Chris Schwarz and Narayan Nayar, who will respectively edit and illustrate…
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