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Part 1 is here. MACHINIST: Are you not painting altogether too gloomy a picture? That the machine has largely taken the place of handwork is true so far as the trade is concerned. There are not many shops left where handwork is practicable at all (though I know of several good woodwork shops where it…

Mark Firley at The Furniture Record (one of my favorite blogs), sent me these photos of a workbench he encountered in his travels. He was on;y able to snap these photos before the antiques dealer shooed him away. My first (and fifth) reaction:  A Narwhal and some ship’s tackle had a baby. And it didn’t…

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It’s difficult to prove a negative. So when readers suggested there was no such thing as a slant-top chest or container after this post and this one, I knew that the Internet would provide. Indexer Suzanne Ellison turned up this interesting example from the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. It’s called out as a…

So I’m folded up inside my tool chest like an origami Sasquatch with the lid closed (don’t ask), and I can hear Roy Underhill come into the “The Woodwright’s Shop” to begin the episode. His voice is muffled through the 7/8”-thick pine, but I can hear him introduce the program. “And… darn it,” Roy says….

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To ensure you can receive “l’Art du menuisier: The Book of Plates” in time for Christmas, we are taking pre-publication orders for this book and offering free domestic shipping until Nov. 19, 2014. “The Book of Plates” goes on press tomorrow, Oct. 24, but because the book is oversized, the pages have to be trucked…