While working in Omaha, Nebraska, last week I took a couple hours to visit an exhibit of thousands of tools and household implements from the mid-19th century that had been preserved in the mud of the Missouri River. The objects – more than 250,000 – were recovered in 1968-69 from the wreck of the Bertrand,…
Read moreThis six-stick comb-back chair with a narrow comb is the chair I built for the first issue of The Stick Chair Journal. I spent about a year gradually changing details on my chairs to arrive at this design, which features a four-piece arm with mitered arms. This chair, which is built using Pennsylvania black cherry,…
Read moreWhen we sent our first book, “The Art of Joinery,” to press 15 years ago, I was teaching a class at Kelly Mehler’s School of Woodworking in Kentucky and got a phone call from the pre-press shop. “The interior folio looks fine,” the voice said. “But what are you going to put on the cover?”…
Read moreLook, I know y’all are here for the posts by Suzo “the Saucy Indexer” Ellison and Megan. But if you aren’t totally sick of me and my voice, there’s a new podcast out there that might amuse you. The Why Make? guys interviewed me last year for their podcast with high-end markers and artists. I…
Read moreOur new Workshop Waist Apron is made in the USA and built to last. I have destroyed so many aprons made of “ballistic cloth” and other high-tech fabrics. This cotton canvas one takes a real beating. Above is a quick video discuss…
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