Woodcraft Ninjas

In today’s look at a smallish section of the loosely organized Covington Mechanical Library (it becomes looser every time I look at a shelf and bemoan the mis-shelving), we’ll travel to the United Kingdom and a few of her former colonies, as well as France, Estonia (via the CIA), and Sweden. And yes, I took…

We sure have a lot of sundry/miscellaneous/mixed/jumble shelves. Could be worse; at least we don’t shelve books by color. (We do, however, shelve a few by size; we’ll visit that lower-right corner soon). On the far left of this bay is most of our “Mortise & Tenon Collection,” both some issues of the magazine and…

In today’s glimpse at the Covington Mechanical Library (CML), let’s have a look at some books compiled from magazine articles and by magazine authors, an old “must have,” woodworking humor and the first of our fiction books. I remember seeing a few volumes from the Fine Woodworking Techniques series (above on the left) on the…

It’s been a busy couple of weeks…so yeah – I’m being a bit lazy with this week’s post. Today, we’ll take a look at a tiny collection of, well, a couple of tiny things and a few teaching aids. Starting from the front left, we have calipers inspired by those in the Studley’s tool cabinet…