The following is excerpted from Joshua A. Klein’s “Hands Employed Aright: The Furniture Making of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847).” Fisher was the first settled minister of the frontier town of Blue Hill, Maine. Harvard-educated and handy with an axe, Fisher spent his adult life building furniture for his community. Fortunately for us, Fisher recorded every aspect…
Read moreChris and I are catching up after a fabulous field trip yesterday to the Berry Center in New Castle, Kentucky (highly recommended if you’re ever in the area and are a fan of Wendell Berry’s work, both literarily and as it relates to equitable and ecological farming). But that doesn’t mean we don’t have time…
Read moreThe move from the third-party warehouse to our in-house warehousing and fulfillment unearthed a colossal number of design curves. I wish I could remember when those were erroneously deemed out of stock…but I’m sure it’s been at least 18 months. So…oops. (We’re confident that having full control over inventory will get rid of such problems….
Read moreThe move from the third-party warehouse to our in-house warehousing and fulfillment unearthed a colossal number of design curves. I wish I could remember when those were erroneously deemed out of stock…but I’m sure it’s been at least 18 months. So…oops. (We’re confident that having full control over inventory will get rid of such problems….
Read moreThe following is excerpted from Peter Galbert’s “Chairmaker’s Notebook.” Whether you are an aspiring professional chairmaker, an experienced green woodworker or a home woodworker curious about the craft, “Chairmaker’s Notebook” is an in-depth guide to building your first Windsor chair or an even-better 30th one. Using more than 500 hand-drawn illustrations, Peter Galbert walks you…
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