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Day One of the build featuring the Trinocular crest rail. Share this: Print Email Facebook Tumblr Pinterest Twitter Like this: Like Loading…
Day One of the build featuring the Trinocular crest rail. Share this: Print Email Facebook Tumblr Pinterest Twitter Like this: Like Loading…
If you are considering plunking down $400 on a book, you have every right to ask questions. And while I’ve answered as many questions as I can in the last 24 hours via e-mail, I’d like to offer even more details about our two forthcoming books: “To Make as Perfectly as Possible: Roubo on Marquetry”…
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UPDATE: The contest is over. We have a winner. Announcement to come. One of the factoids we want to include in Don Williams’ forthcoming book “Virtuoso” is the weight of the H.O. Studley tool chest – both loaded and unloaded. Today we weighed the unloaded chest on an analog scale. Yes, we know it’s not…
Before Charles F. Hummel published “With Hammer in Hand” in 1968, he was obviously spending a lot of time researching the Dominy family and their tools. In 1965, he published a great 19-page article in the “Winterthur Portfolio” about the Dominy’s tools that were made in England. This piece is in the same pattern as…
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When it comes to landmark books in the woodworking craft, it is hard to beat Charles Hummel’s “With Hammer in Hand.” This pioneering book chronicles the lives, tools and projects of the Dominy family from East Hampton, N.Y. The Dominys were renowned clock makers, but they produced furniture of all kinds using a set of…
When I finished up writing “The Anarchist’s Design Book” in January 2016, there were two projects that I wish I’d included: a staked armchair and a staked settee. At the time, my designs for these two pieces were still juvenile. Well maybe that’s not correct. They were too complex to be presented in a book…
THE CORRECT PREPARATION AND USE OF GLUE ARE OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE IN WOODWORK This is an excerpt from “The Woodworker: The Charles H. Hayward Years: Volume II” published by Lost Art Press. The process of glueing up is one of the most important in woodwork, and requires the attention of all craftsmen who strive…