Sharpening is a necessary evil on the path to making good furniture. I wrote “Sharpen This” in the hopes of putting it in a time machine and sending it back to 1994 Chris when he first learned to sharpen. Like many woodworkers, 1994 Chris bought way too many sharpening systems, jigs and BS sandwiches peddled…
Read moreTwo new titles have arrived in our Indiana warehouse and are available for immediate shipment: “Sharpen This” by Christopher Schwarz and “Euclid’s Door” by George Walker and Jim Tolpin. If you order either of these titles before Oct. 1, you will receive a free pdf download of the book(s) at checkout. After Oct. 1, the…
Read moreAfter a long dry spell – the last book we sent to press was in December – we now have four books on press. (Actually, we have five books if you count the somewhat-cursed edition of Moxon’s “Mechanick Exercises” that has been on press for six months. More on that below.) Today we finished our…
Read moreBecause we make tools, I hesitate to criticize other toolmakers. Today I am making an exception because the manufacturer is Irwin Industrial Tools, which is owned by Stanley Black & Decker, a company that is worth $28.4 billion (that’s with a “b”). So no toolmaker is going to go hungry because of this blog entry….
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