Our last 2025 Open Wire – your chance to post any and all woodworking questions and get answers from Chris, me and fellow readers – is this Saturday from around 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Eastern. (And this time, it’ll be mostly Chris during the day, as I’ll be teaching a Dutch tool chest class, and will…
Read moreWe’re fairly confident that the last day to get your order placed at lostartpress.com in time for Christmas delivery is December 14 (this Sunday). Why 10 days out? Because we’re a small staff and can only pack only so many orders in a day (plus, of course, the carriers are swamped right now). That might…
Read moreHappy Thanksgiving – and we don’t recommend you eat the hide glue cake (though you can). Hide Glue Cake – Soaked and Ready to Use Animal glues are the best adhesive for our work. They are reversible and can be configured to set up quickly or slowly, depending on what you need. Whenever we talk…
Read moreHey everybody, it’s that time of year again – it’s the Anarchist’s Gift Guide. We’ve been doing this for more than a decade now, people seem to like it, so I guess we’ll keep it up. Why? Unlike some other gift guides, ours isn’t sponsored. (In fact, if somebody asked us to write about their…
Read moreHey everybody, it’s that time of year again – it’s the Anarchist’s Gift Guide. We’ve been doing this for more than a decade now, people seem to like it, so I guess we’ll keep it up. Why? Unlike some other gift guides, ours isn’t sponsored. (In fact, if somebody asked us to write about their…
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