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Lost Art Press: Chris Schwarz: Chair Chat: Stick Chairs & Trinocular Crest Rails
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Yesterday Chris and I had a Q & A session about stick chairs, the Hall’s Croft chair, chair design and more. It was only towards the end of the evening portion of our chat, and after he had consumed two beers, that it was necessary to redact a line...
Handplane Performance #1: The Main Things - Sharpening
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I have been fortunate enough to assemble and use an array of handplanes – Stanley Bailey bench, block, and specific use planes, oriental woodies of various sizes, Lee Valley Veritas bevel up and scraper planes, and some other assorted types. It...
Hand-Carved American Furniture that Never Came Close to a Chisel
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The elaborate design on the crest rail of this turn-of-the-century oak rocker was pressed into the wood, not carved. In furniture making and design, it always seems preferable that flat, plain panels of unadorned wood be largely avoided wherever possible...

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Apply Now for a Chairmaker’s Toolbox Scholarship Class Here

Scholarship applications are now open for six spots in a special comb-back class in our Covington, Kentucky, workshop Sept. 15-19. The class is offered through The Chairmaker’s Toolbox, a non-profit organization that provides education and support to...
LAP Open Wire: June 14, 2025

Update: Comments are now closed. Thanks for entertaining us on our drive! Got a woodworking question? Then today is you’re lucky day: It’s time for Open Wire! You have until 5 p.m. Eastern to pose your question in the comments section below, and we...
Make a Table or Stool – Construction & Design

The following is excerpted from “The Essential Woodworker,” by Robert Wearing. In our opinion, “The Essential Woodworker” is one of the best books on hand-tool usage written in the post-Charles Hayward era. Wearing was classically trained in England...
SALE: Water-spotted Copies of ‘Ingenious Mechanicks’

A couple weeks ago, one of our warehouse’s dehumidifiers lost power and dripped water onto a pallet of “Ingenious Mechanicks” books. We dried them out, but a couple hundred of them suffered some water spotting on the back covers and have pages that are...
Visit ‘The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick’

We are not fancy here. So when Megan threatened to wear a skirt, I knew this was a serious event. Rob Spiece, director of woodcraft at Berea Student Craft, had scored invitations for all of us to see the opening of a new exhibit at the Taft Museum in...

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Le menuisier (colour litho) by Fraipont, Gustave (1849-1923); Private Collection; (add.info.: Le menuisier. Illustration for Le Vocabulaire des Petits by M Fournier with designs by G[ustave] Fraipont ...
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33 Months with a SawStop | Lost Art Press

For many years, I restored Karmann Ghias as a side hobby. I sold my last Ghia about four years ago for the same reasons I bought a SawStop table saw. While I love the simplicity, beauty and build qual...