The History of Wood, Part 50 –
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The History of Wood, Part 46 –
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The Making of a Cabinetmaker – Part II –
My actual experience at the bench as an embryo cabinetmaker began when I was fourteen years of age. I had been at school all the winter and spring, but was with my father in the shop a great deal before and after school hours. At this time my father was working on piece work in…
12 Tool Chests, 5 Days, 1 Tired American –
When I teach woodworking classes, I am sometimes asked the following question: Do you consider yourself first a writer or a woodworker? I don’t have an answer to that question. I have to do both things just about every day to feel human. And so I usually answer the question by saying: I don’t know….
Timeless Design –
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Say Hello to Another Anarchist Woodworker –
“Anarchism” is such a dirty, loaded and misunderstood word that I truly hesitated to use it as the title of the book “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest.” Several people have suggested that I chose the word as a marketing ploy. If I did, then I’m a marketing moron because the book’s title has hurt sales. My…
The Principal Stones Used in the Mechanical Arts –
The Thanks of the Society were voted to R. Knight, Esq., for a Collection of Hone-Stones and Grind-Stones, presented by him; together with the following Descriptive Catalogue of them. Sir, Foster Lane. In compliance with your request, I have sent, for the Society’s acceptance, a collection of all the principal stones used in the mechanical…
On the Importance of the Studley Tool Chest –
During the last five years, I’ve had more than my share of intimate contact with the famous H.O. Studley tool cabinet. And so wherever I travel I get asked this question: “What’s it like?” So I lie. “I hate it,” I say. And then I talk about how stressful it is to unload and load…
Effect of the Bicycle on the Lumber Trade –
The continuing and growing demand for bicycles has its effect upon the hardwood lumber trade. It is estimated that there will be produced in American factories this year nearly 800,000 bicycles. Practically all of these are equipped with wood rims. Each wood rim requires 2½ feet board measure, and allowing one-third for waste, that would…
Farmhouse Style –
One of the kitchens among those in the book I’m writing for Lost Art Press is in a newly built house on a hilltop in a spectacular rural location. When the clients first contacted me about their kitchen, they described the architectural character of the house as “farmhouse style.” But their architect’s drawings – beautiful…