Not the Sharpest Chisel in the Roll

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Not the Sharpest Chisel in the Roll

Lost Art Press The Anarchist's Tool Chest, The Art of Joinery, The Essential Woodworker

When we sent our first book, “The Art of Joinery,” to press 15 years ago, I was teaching a class at Kelly Mehler’s School of Woodworking in Kentucky and got a phone call from the pre-press shop. “The interior folio looks fine,” the voice said. “But what are you going to put on the cover?”…

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Robert Wearing on Chopping Mortices by Hand

fitz The Essential Woodworker

The following is excerpted from “The Essential Woodworker,” by Robert Wearing. In our opinion, “The Essential Woodworker” is one of the best books on hand-tool usage written in the post-Charles Hayward era. Wearing was classically trained in England as a woodworker and embraced both power and hand tools in his shop and in his teaching….

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