The following is excerpted from “Honest Labour.” This column was first published in The Woodworker in 1949 – please excuse the gendered terms as a product of their time. Woodworkers deal in the very kindest of materials, the friendly, living wood. I think there can hardly have been a time when men were not tree…
Read moreTickets 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…
Read moreThe 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.”…
Read moreNick 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…
Read moreAs 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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