During every class I teach where we pick up a saw, a students always asks the following question: Why is your sawblade narrower at the toe? This characteristic of some backsaws is curious at first to the modern eye. Many of the backsaws from the 19th and 20th centuries have blades that are perfect rectangles….
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The book that became “Chairmaker’s Notebook” began as a chat with chairmakers Peter Galbert and Curtis Buchanan. We made a plan to produce a video of Curtis building a chair that would be accompanied by a pamphlet from Peter illustrating the construction details. In the end, Curtis’s detailed videos ended up here. And Peter’s “pamphlet”…
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FIG. 1. A COMMON ERROR. No allowance has been made for the rebate which runs right through and forms a gap. This is an excerpt from “The Woodworker: The Charles H. Hayward Years: Volume III” published by Lost Art Press. The through dovetail is straightforward enough to cut, but sometimes there is a slight complication owing…
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We have finally figured out how many letterpress “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” posters we have left in stock after shipping out all of the last batch. And after replacing damaged ones. And replacing the damaged replacements. We have 100 we can sell. They are now in our store for $25, which includes packaging and shipping…
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