Recently, Owen Madden started a book club, and he wants you to join. A professional cabinetmaker from upstate New York, Madden works as shop foreman at Rowan Woodwork. “At our shop, we have a monthly meetup, and I get to meet some of the most talented woodworkers and artists,” Madden says. “Most of the conversations…
Read moreEditor’s note: The third edition of “Cut & Dried” should arrive in February. You can sign up to be notified when it arrives here. In this post, author Richard Jones explains his update to Chapter 6. In 2021, I decided I ought to update “Cut & Dried,” and the third reprint of it at the…
Read moreLate this year, we sold out of “Cut & Dried”. Author Richard Jones had some changes he wanted to make in the third edition. This week, we sent the book, with these changes, to press. Some of the changes were small corrections, such as moving an illustration up a bit to better match the text…
Read moreYale Environment 360, an online magazine published at the Yale School of Environment, recently published a story titled “How Traffickers Got Away with the Biggest Rosewood Heist in History” by Zach St. George. This story tells how 30,000 rosewood logs were illegally harvested in Madagascar and trafficked on a cargo ship to Singapore. And why…
Read moreThis summer, the U.S. Postal Service released 12 stamps featuring photographs by Michael Freeman from six different preserved Shaker communities, commemorating the 250th anniversary of the first Shakers arriving in America. Freeman, along with June Sprigg and David Larkin, published “Shaker: Life, Work, and Art,” in 1991. The stamps were designed by Postal Service Art…
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