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Roy Underhill Reading ‘The Joiner & Cabinet Maker’

Posted on May 21, 2012 by

Lost Art Press is pleased to announce that Roy Underhill will be the voice reading our audiobook presentation of “The Joiner & Cabinet Maker,” which will be released later this summer. Roy and I have spent the day recording the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books in Print, The Joiner & Cabinet Maker, Uncategorized | 23 Comments

Chris Isn’t Here

Posted on May 17, 2012 by

I’m traveling for the next 10 days to a wide variety of Southern destinations to do research for a couple books, interview some woodworkers for articles in Popular Woodworking Magazine, record an audio book and eat my entire weight in … Continue reading →

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Lie-Nielsen Event Next Weekend (And a Note on Tools)

Posted on March 24, 2012 by

Just a reminder that Lost Art Press will be at the Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event next week at Popular Woodworking Magazine in Cincinnati. Details are on the Lie-Nielsen web site here. We will be there with a few tool chests … Continue reading →

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A Man by Himself in the Jungle

Posted on March 20, 2012 by

If you lost your self-respect you were not looked upon in a respectful and proper manner. So in order to maintain my self-respect I put on a dinner jacket and dressed for dinner and I said to my servants, who … Continue reading →

Posted in Books in the Works, Campaign Furniture, Uncategorized | 21 Comments

Unsolicited Praise for ‘Make a Joint Stool from a Tree’

Posted on March 14, 2012 by

We never request reviews from woodworkers, magazines or fellow authors. And we don’t sling around free copies of our books in the hopes of hooking a review. So when we get a review, it’s from someone who had to seek … Continue reading →

Posted in Books in Print, Make a Joint Stool from a Tree, Uncategorized | 18 Comments

Help Defend The Wood Whisperer

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

As some of you might know, The Wood Whisperer.com (Marc Spagnuolo and family) has been besieged by a DDoS attack this week. In fact, as I write this, I can’t even get onto his site. As a survivor of Internet … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal Favorites, Uncategorized | 16 Comments

And Now With Even More Dedication

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

It’s almost impossible not to mention the name “John Brown” when you discuss anarchism and woodworking. And yet, somehow I managed to do this. John was the author of a column in the British magazine Good Woodworking in the 1990s … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 34 Comments

A Different Drawer

Posted on November 2, 2011 by

Woodworking writers love to get to the end of the story where they can simply state: Build the drawers in the usual manner and apply your favorite finish. And enjoy! This is, by the way, a bit of laziness or … Continue reading →

Posted in Techniques, Uncategorized | 10 Comments

Off to Canada

Posted on September 21, 2011 by

As soon as I figure out how to get my chest out of the shop and into my wife’s Honda I am headed to Waterloo, Ontario, for the opening of Lee Valley’s newest retail store. Want details? Here’s a post … Continue reading →

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Classes I’m Teaching in 2012

Posted on September 5, 2011 by

Earlier this year, I announced that I wouldn’t be teaching any woodworking classes in 2012 in order to give my family a break from my sometimes-hectic travel schedule. After stepping down as editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine in June, my … Continue reading →

Posted in Handplanes, Saws, The Anarchist's Tool Chest, Uncategorized, Woodworking Classes, Workbenches | 11 Comments