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…

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SOLD: This is a fine tool. I also have 20 other knives, so I need to let (at least) one go. This Veritas Striking Knife was a domestic product when I bought it. Then Lee Valley discontinued it and brought it back as an imported product without the Veritas name. This knife has seen many…

A couple times a month, I get an e-mail from Mark Firley. Inside the e-mail is usually a sarcastic comment plus a link to an album of the pieces of antique furniture he photographed recently. Firley, an active North Carolina woodworker, spends a lot of time at auctions, antique stores and in museums. And whenever…

Earlier this year, Linda Nathan of Australian Wood Review interviewed me for a short piece in the magazine. While she didn’t ask me what was my “drag queen name,” she did ask some interesting questions. Here they are. What are the core principles you teach students? I am a reluctant teacher to be sure. I…

Now that I have completed the first and most intense step of editing and annotating the raw transliteration manuscript for “To Make as Perfectly As Possible: Roubo on Furniture Making,” aka R2, my attentions will turn to and eventually be dedicated solely to the full pedal-to-the-metal effort to bring VIRTUOSO to fruition. This does not…

This stick chair is one of a series of “scrapple” chairs I’ve been making during the last month, using up beautiful extra chair parts that have been sitting around for as long as five years. Because I was constrained by the parts on hand, I had to devise a new chair design that made all…

2. If you want a French workbench but don’t have the machines or time to build it yourself, I’d like you to meet Mark Hicks of the Plate 11 Bench Co. Mark took my campaign chest class at Marc Adams School of Woodworking this year. Not that he needed it – he runs his family’s…