For the last few years I’ve switched back and forth between using Wood Owl spade bits and Japanese Star M F-type augers for drilling critical holes. The Wood Owls are about $3.50 each, and the Star M bits are about $9. Both work fine. But here are their important differences. With the Wood Owls, I…
Read moreThis six-stick comb-back chair is a close cousin to the chair shown on the cover of “The Stick Chair Journal No. 1.” The only significant differences are that the arm parts on this new chair aren’t mitered. And its comb is taller. I am selling this chair for $1,500 via a random drawing. Instructions on…
Read moreThis post originally appeared on Peter Follansbee’s blog, Joiner’s Notes. Reprinted here with permission. I read last week that chairmaker Dave Sawyer passed away. I never knew him, but I felt very connected to his work through our many mutual friends. Over the past ten years or so I’ve been working on this idea in…
Read moreBy request from readers, we are going to try to bring back some stickers. The original Sticker Queen, my daughter Maddy, is too swamped with getting her doctorate to take on the sticker business. But my youngest, Katy, has agreed to give it a try. There will be three stickers in this set, and they…
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