Author Archives: fitz

LAP Open Wire, Sept. 14, 2024

Do you have a woodworking question in need of an answer? Then you’ve come to the right place! Just post your question in the comments section below, and Christopher Schwarz and I shall do our best to answer. As always, brevity is appreciated. We’ll be online on and off today until around 5 p.m., at…

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‘Dutch Tool Chests’ Has Left the Building

I am delighted to announce that the book I started writing four years ago – “Dutch Tool Chests” – is finally in the hands of our printer. I also hope to have proofs to review by the weekend. Above is a mockup of the cover (surprise, it’s gray/blue). The real thing will look a lot…

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Classes at the Storefront, Jan.-May 2025

We have a handful of new classes – including one from Welshman Chris Williams – to announce for the first half of 2025, tickets for which will be on sale at 10 a.m. Eastern on Sept. 16, 2024, on our ticketing site. • Build a Welsh-style Comb-back Chair with Christopher Schwarz, Jan. 13-17• Build a Dutch…

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Fisher House Livestream Tour w/Joshua Klein

Join Joshua Klein, author of “Hands Employed Aright: The Furniture Making of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847)” and editor of Mortise & Tenon Magazine, for a tour of the Jonathan Fisher House in Blue Hills, Maine. It’s part of an all-day livestream event on Saturday, Sept., 21, during which Joshua will take you behind the scenes at…

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New class: Woodcuts with Rudy Everts

We’ve added a special class and spaces are available now: Learn How to Make Woodcuts with Rudy Everts. The class is Sunday, Nov. 24 and Monday, Nov. 25. Rudy, who is visiting from Munich, will also be filming a video on making a stick chair using nothing but feral green woodworking techniques, from log to…

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