In today’s look at a smallish section of the loosely organized Covington Mechanical Library (it becomes looser every time I look at a shelf and bemoan the mis-shelving), we’ll travel to the United Kingdom and a few of her former colonies, as well as France, Estonia (via the CIA), and Sweden. And yes, I took…
Read moreNow that we’ve sold through our copies, we’re offering a free pdf of out high-quality scan of the “Stanley Catalogue No. 34.” You can read it in this post, and click on the link below the window download. This catalog shows nearly every tool needed in a hand-tool shop, from the chisels to the butt…
Read moreThe following is excerpted from “Volume II: The Woodworker: The Charles H. Hayward Years: Techniques.” As editor of The Woodworker magazine from 1939 to 1967, Hayward oversaw the transformation of the craft from one that was almost entirely hand-tool based to a time where machines were common, inexpensive and had displaced the handplanes, chisels and…
Read moreWe’re proud to offer two resources for making Jennie Alexander-style chairs: The third edition of “Make a Chair from a Tree” and the how-to video Jennie recorded in 1999. We’re also fans of a new video from one of Jennie’s long-time collaborators and friend, Peter Follansbee. MACFAT: The BookIn 2014, Jennie Alexander somewhat reluctantly agreed…
Read moreWe sure have a lot of sundry/miscellaneous/mixed/jumble shelves. Could be worse; at least we don’t shelve books by color. (We do, however, shelve a few by size; we’ll visit that lower-right corner soon). On the far left of this bay is most of our “Mortise & Tenon Collection,” both some issues of the magazine and…
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