Mark Firley at The Furniture Record (one of my favorite blogs), sent me these photos of a workbench he encountered in his travels. He was on;y able to snap these photos before the antiques dealer shooed him away. My first (and fifth) reaction: A Narwhal and some ship’s tackle had a baby. And it didn’t…
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It’s difficult to prove a negative. So when readers suggested there was no such thing as a slant-top chest or container after this post and this one, I knew that the Internet would provide. Indexer Suzanne Ellison turned up this interesting example from the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. It’s called out as a…
So I’m folded up inside my tool chest like an origami Sasquatch with the lid closed (don’t ask), and I can hear Roy Underhill come into the “The Woodwright’s Shop” to begin the episode. His voice is muffled through the 7/8”-thick pine, but I can hear him introduce the program. “And… darn it,” Roy says….
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To ensure you can receive “l’Art du menuisier: The Book of Plates” in time for Christmas, we are taking pre-publication orders for this book and offering free domestic shipping until Nov. 19, 2014. “The Book of Plates” goes on press tomorrow, Oct. 24, but because the book is oversized, the pages have to be trucked…
A boxy (presumably) Welsh three-legged comb-back. When I sent “The Stick Chair Book” to press in June, my plan was to immediately launch into my next book project. But then I took a look at our family’s finances, and I knew that idea was unwise. When you don’t sell any furniture or teach any classes…
Customers are starting to receive our new DVD “Inside the Anarchist’s Tool Chest” and here are some answers to some common questions. 1. Will this DVD be available through other retailers? Yes. We are working on that right now. Lie-Nielsen has agreed to carry it and we are shipping them a box today. 2. Will…
Since the release of “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” book in 2011, customers have asked for a DVD that explains how to build the English tool chest featured at the end of the book. To be honest, we resisted making this DVD for one reason: It’s a complicated project to film, and we didn’t have the…