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If you want to build a tool chest and you need some dominatrix-style “encouragement” to get it done inside of a week, then listen up. There are about five spaces open in my tool chest class in August at the Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking. This fantastic little school is located behind a Woodcraft store…
On the Matter of my Retirement –
During the last month I have been asked how I am enjoying “retirement,” or if I’ve picked out a nice spacious refrigerator box for my new hobo-inspired lifestyle. These people do not know me well. Since June 15 I have taught four classes, taped two episodes of “The Woodwright’s Shop,” negotiated four book contracts, edited…
Job Opening for Bench Jeweler (Columbia,MD)
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Six Days’ Sawing –
Instance of Human Effort.—Six Days’ Sawing A Pair of sawyers, in the yard of Messrs. Paul, and Co., timber-merchants, Broad-street, Golden-square, executed the following quantity of labour in sixty working-hours, in six days, beginning about eight, a.m., on Monday, the 25th, and ending about four, p.m., on the following Saturday, the 30th of January, in…
Tighter Joints with Kiln-dried Wood –
I don’t think this is what they meant by wet, green wood. But it works. Most of my chairs are made with kiln-dried hardwood from the lumberyard. Its moisture content is usually at equilibrium with my shop – just like a good flat woodworker would want. But I know and respect the wet/dry construction methods…