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Make Wood (And Your Shirts) Flat –
An ironing board met a spindly manual-training workbench at a bar. Drinks were consumed. And nine months later, the Chandler & Barber patented “Handy Bench Cabinet” came into this world in 1902. The “bench” is a testament to human will – that something so odd and ill-conceived could be patented and brought to market….
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The History of Wood, Part 48 –
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Instead of Wrangling SawStop Comments… –
… I spent the morning fitting the base joints and assembling my French oak workbench. — Christopher Schwarz Share this: Print Email Facebook Tumblr Pinterest Twitter Like this: Like Loading…
Oscar the ‘Hearthrugger’ Dog –
With his black leather nose and beautiful eyes, Oscar reminded me of the puppies that often appeared on boxes of chocolates in England in the early 1980s. Editor’s note: If you ever meet me at a dinner party and ask me what sort of books we publish, I’ll give you a two-word answer: hard ones….
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Design Under Duress –
Building a project in front of an audience is one thing. Designing it and building it on the fly is enough to drive me to drink. Earlier this year I did a two-day seminar for the Alabama Woodworkers Guild where I designed and built a six-board chest. While I usually do a lot work beforehand…
Let’s rake some hay –
Psst. Hey, man. Wanna have some fun? What kind of fun? Hayraking. [Radio silence.] Building a hayrake table. Killer joinery (exposed tenons with trapped, scribed shoulders; bridle joints; cool geometry), carving lambs’ tongues, decorative gouging and inlaid butterfly keys—all at the Port Townsend School of Woodworking. Laying out a lamb’s tongue Cutting one exposed tenon with…