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New 2022 Classes at the LAP Storefront

Tickets will go on sale next Friday (April 15, 2022) at 10 a.m. Eastern for three classes at the Lost Art Press storefront in the second half of 2022: Build a Cricket Table with Derek Jones, Monday, Aug. 1 through Wednesday, Aug. 3. The three-day class is $600 plus a materials fee (around $150). Build…

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Drying Faults in Lumber

The following is excerpted from “Cut & Dried,” by Richard Jones. Richard has spent his entire life as a professional woodworker and has dedicated himself to researching the technical details of wood in great depth, this material being the woodworker’s most important resource. The result is “Cut & Dried: A Woodworker’s Guide to Timber Technology.”…

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Tiny Dutch Tool Chest

Nick Gibbs, editor of Quercus magazine, asked some woodworker friends to build a storage box for a Lie-Nielsen No. 102, aka an apron plane, as inspiration for the magazine’s Young Woodworker of the Year award. The way I understand it, entrants ages 16-19, and from anywhere in the world, are invited to make a box…

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Crossing the Finish Line: Carved Oak Boxes

As promised, here are the almost-finished carved and joined oak boxes, with pine lids and bottoms. One person has to leave early – the rest will stay a bit late to finish the wooden pintle hinges – you can see one hanging down on the top box – before we clean up and head home….

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Riving & Shaving Pegs with Peter Follansbee

This week, we’ve had Peter Follansbee (author of “Joiner’s Work“) in the shop teaching six students to carve and make a 17th-century-style oak and pine box with an integral till. The first three days were carving, yesterday was joinery, and today they’re finishing off the joinery, then making and attaching the bottom and lids. The…

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