About 2012, Ty Black and I developed some leather pockets for the inside of tool chests that would hold important stuff. One held a block plane. The other held pencils, pens, knives, 6” rule and other skinny things that could get lost in a tool chest. We never intended to make them for sale, but…
Read moreYears ago I used to make all my sticks with the 5/8” Ray Iles rounding plane. I think I must have had a bump on the head at some point because I cannot remember when or why I stopped using it. Last year I bought one from Classic Hand Tools in the UK, and I…
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Read moreToday I had a few minutes of free time so I whipped up this quick T-shirt with my Cricut (yes, I have a mint green one) and the artwork of Rudy Everts. (If you love chair art and woodblocks and Escher stuff, check out his store.) Anyway, Rudy kindly consented to put this design up…
Read moreWhen we started fundraising last year to help repair the Anthe Building (the location of our warehouse in downtown Covington), we thought that surely, we would be ready to show it to the public in early 2024. Unfortunately, old buildings don’t care about our plans. Right now the back wall is being rebuilt and mortared….
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