It took two years and six months, but we have finally paid off the $267,000 loan we took out to purchase the Anthe Building – the Lost Art Press headquarters and fulfillment center. This post is not intended as a gloat. Instead, it is an acknowledgment that for the last 30 months we have been…
Read moreI’ve long been interested in fish glues since reading about them in A.J. Roubo’s “l’Art du menuisier” from the 18th century. After two years of testing fish glue in our shop, we have decided to begin selling it. Fish Stick Glue is a reversible adhesive with a long open time. It is ideal for complex…
Read moreEvery plane that HNT Gordon sends out to customers is assembled and inspected by the company’s founder, Terry Gordon. The process takes place at Terry’s workbench near the front of the company’s factory in Alstonville, Australia. There, Terry makes small adjustments to the wood and metal components with a wide variety of tools, from simple…
Read moreI’ve followed Vintage Tool Shop on Instagram for a long time. They always post really nice tools for sale – plus their own line of handsaws that they make (by hand) in the workshop in the back of the store. So it was a fanboy moment last week when we drove by their shop and…
Read moreNext Friday, Lucy and I fly to Australia for a week of relaxation and marsupials. And then I’ll stay on to teach a couple chairmaking classes for Wood Dust and participate in some woodworking events that look to be fun. The two classes have been sold out for months, but the organizers have found a…
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