Category Archives: Open Wire

LAP Open Wire, Jan. 13, 2024

It’s time for our (almost) weekly Open Wire, where you can pose your woodworking questions in the comments section below and we’ll do our best to answer them. Note that there may be a lag between your asking and our answering. Chris has a class starting Monday and a trip to Colonial Williamsburg for which…

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LAP Open Wire, Jan. 6, 2024

The final project for Chris’s next book, “The American Peasant,” is done, dusted, painted and hung on the wall – the coat and mug rack shown above. (The coat is the Lost Art Press Chore Coat, made in Cincinnati; the Lost Art Press Coffee Mugs are handmade for us in Minnesota.) So now Chris needs…

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LAP Open Wire: Dec. 30, 2023

I’m writing this on Friday night. There’s a small chance Megan and I will not survive to see a new day. We ate dinner at Purple Poulet, and the food there is so rich and delicious that our hearts might simply stop. But if we do live, we are happy to answer your woodworking questions…

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LAP Open Wire (& Storefront Hours), Dec. 23, 2023

With family things happening here this weekend, the storefront doors will not be open until around 11:30 a.m., and we will close at 4 p.m. – just in case anyone is planning a visit for a last-minute woodworking gift (and you might instead consider a Lost Art Press gift certificate – no need to venture…

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LAP Open Wire Dec. 16, 2023

Concurrent with making more Piggly No Wiggly glue and packing Anarchist Square Kits, I’ll be hosting Open Wire this week all by my lonesome – at least that’s the plan. But because Chris just can’t help himself, he’ll probably chime in from time to time, even though he’s supposed to not be working today (he’s…

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