If you need something delivered by Christmas, please order by 5 p.m. Monday (Dec. 15). We are pushing things a little. The USPS needs to receive packages by Dec. 17 for Christmas delivery. So we’ll all be filling boxes for the next few days to make sure everything gets into the hands of USPS by…
Read moreAfter I dragged my butt off the plane to Munich with no sleep, Heiko Pulcher did me a huge favor. He plunked me into his Subaru wagon and drove me to the Das Holztechnische Museum Rosenheim (The Rosenheim Wood Technology Museum). It’s a 1,200-square foot museum devoted to all aspects of woodworking, from chopping down…
Read moreWith the addition of Kale Vogt to our staff at Lost Art Press, I have been pondering the meaning and implications of the word “apprenticeship.” For me it is a real thing. Apprenticeship requires papers that lay out an agreement. Something like: I will do this. You will do that. And in the end, this is where…
Read moreBy Suzanne Ellison He was deeper in the forest than he would normally venture and felt a sense of unease in this unfamiliar wood. The weak daylight of late October was fading away, and he didn’t see the tree stump until it was too late. He caught his foot on the stump and fell hard…
Read moreSadly, it’s another day, and we still have exactly zero weird Yelp reviews for our classes. I mentioned this today to the students in my chair class as we were working on our combs, and we started brainstorming what some negative Yelp reviews of my chair class might sound like. Here are a few. We…
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