Almost every week – especially during the summer – we get messages from readers who want help with an upcoming trip. They are headed to Kalamazoo, Michigan, and would like a list of woodworking stuff in the area that they can visit. For me, answering these questions is time-consuming. I have to go back and...| Lost Art Press
This comb-back chair is based on the chair on the cover of “The Stick Chair Book,” with some modifications detailed below. The finish is fresh milk paint (a recipe from a forthcoming book) tinted with a French mineral pigment called “saffron.” This particular chair is set up for lounging. This summer, I have been tweaking...| Lost Art Press
Editor’s note: Our Mind Upon Mind series is a nod to a 1937 Chips from the Chisel column (also featured in “Honest Labour: The Charles H. Hayward Years”), in which Hayward wrote, “The influence of mind upon mind is extraordinary.” The idea being there’s often room for improvement. To that end, we’ve asked you what else you have...| Lost Art Press
The following is excerpted from “The Intelligent Hand,” by David Binnington Savage. It’s a peek into a woodworking life that’s at a level that most of us can barely imagine. The customers are wealthy and eccentric. The designs have to leap off the page. And the craftsmanship has to be utterly, utterly flawless. Personally, this...| Lost Art Press
The following is excerpted from Matthew Bickford’s “Mouldings in Practice.” In this book, Bickford shows you how to turn a set of complicated mouldings into a series of predictable rabbets and chamfers that guide your hollow and round planes to make any moulding that has been made in the past or that you can envision...| Lost Art Press
We have a limited run of handmade slipcases hand printed with the image of a honey bee (the symbol of workers everywhere). The slipcase comes with a copy of “The Woodworker’s Pocket Book” plus brass mounting hardware. And we are offering the two together at a special price. This project began when Texas Heritage Woodworks...| Lost Art Press
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Visit the store page of “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest: Revised Edition” to get a free copy of the book’s PDF. There are two links to download it in the first paragraph – the paragraph in italics – on the sales page. No need to give us your name, your number or your firstborn. Just click...| Lost Art Press
We’ve just received 11 pallets of “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest: Revised Edition” and we are busy shipping them out to customers. Oh, and we also re-released the original ATC T-shirt in red (union made in the United States). You can snag one here. Fourteen years after the release of “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest,” Christopher Schwarz...| Lost Art Press
We are now selling jars of Soft Wax 2.0 – our favorite finish for bare wood – which we make at our Covington headquarters. An 8-ounce jar of Soft Wax 2.0 is $25. Or you can buy a kit that includes the wax, an applicator pad and the huck-weave towels that do an outstanding job...| Lost Art Press
During my last day in the U.K. last week, we crammed in as much as possible. It was like a hot dog eating contest. But instead of cased meats, we were| Lost Art Press
Editor’s note: Our Mind Upon Mind series is a nod to a 1937 Chips from the Chisel column (also featured in “Honest Labour: The Charles H. Hayward| Lost Art Press
After I dragged my butt off the plane to Munich with no sleep, Heiko Pulcher did me a huge favor. He plunked me into his Subaru wagon and drove me to the Das| Lost Art Press
Glen Huey, a great furniture maker, teacher and (I hope) friend, died unexpectedly on July 27 after posting a short notice about an upcoming medical procedure| Lost Art Press
The following is excerpted from “Backwoods Chairmakers,” by Andrew D. Glenn. Part travelogue, part profile and part how-to, “Backwoods Chairmakers” explores| Lost Art Press
One of the most famous furniture makers and designers in the Midwest is someone you don’t hear much about in woodworking circles: David T. Smith. With this blog entry, I hope to change that – at least a little.| Lost Art Press
Almost every book I’ve written has started out as one thing (a manual on how to use crappy store-bought workbenches) and ended up as something else| Lost Art Press