I love spade bits, and I will always recommend them for people getting started in chairmaking. The bits are dirt cheap, widely available, sharpenable and are easily customized to do things other bits cannot. But like many chairmakers, I am always game to try new drill bits. If someone told me there was a new…
Read moreTo mark the launch of The Stick Chair Journal (coming in August 2022), we are giving away 400 Stick Chair Merit Badges to readers who have built a stick chair and can follow instructions. This promotion ends when we run out of the merit badges or on Dec. 31, 2022, whichever comes first. (When the…
Read moreReally, this video could have been done in four words…three words, one repeated: Wax on, wax off. But that’s already been said. So instead, I’ve blathered on for a few minutes about soft wax and how easy it is to use. The jar I’m using is from Katherine Schwarz (aka The Anarchist’s Daughter), who will…
Read moreMy first tattoo will be up my right arm and will say: No more posters, dummkopf. Wall posters, no matter how nice, are not a good product for us. With the exception of the “With Hammer in Hand” letterpress poster, which we cannot reprint, posters lose money or (at best) break even. We have two…
Read moreThis week I’ve been reading a newly published set of six history books. And unfortunately, I should read them as quickly as possible because these books are designed from the get-go to fall apart in short order. As a consumer this is maddening. The set cost me $550 (or $91.66 per volume). And after inspecting…
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