“Set & File: A Practical Guide to Saw Sharpening” by Matt Cianci is back in stock after we absolutely burned through the first printing. We now have enough copies to begin filling wholesale orders for our international retailers. So stay tuned.
Other good news: Classic Hand Tools in the U.K. now has “American Peasant” and “Backwoods Chairmakers” in stock.
Now the not-so-good news: Two titles have been delayed because of manufacturing glitches. The Stick Chair Journal No. 2 and “Principles of Design” are stuck in the cover department of the plant. They are having trouble getting a clean diestamp on both covers. Here are some photos for those of you who are curious about what gets rejected.
We are trying to find a foil and cover material that will give a crisp impression. I hope it won’t take long.
— Christopher Schwarz
And Fitz’s Dutch Toolchest book??
She is designing it. And I am finishing up the construction drawings. We are hard at work on it. Hard. At. Work.
Any chance, you send some to stockholm, so they can forfill my order? :o)
Will Principles of Design be available as PDF? I recently moved overseas to a place without LAP distribution.
Is there a structural or design reason not to make a stick dinning room table with wedge tenons exposed on the top of dinning tables surface? Simply 4 legs and the top- similar to the base of your stick chairs. Some parameters I was considering 8/4 top 32” wide x 84” long (or shorter) with legs sized to hold the weight etc. I have not found many examples of this so i was wondering if table aprons or some other bracing is necessary for stability? Or am I missing some design/structural element that should also be considered?
Thank you.
Something similar is in the anarchist design book.
It is a surprise for me to read this, since it is also a pending design that I have in mind, with the same doubts. I think, like you, that the tabletop should be thicker than usual or should be reinforced on its underside, at the insertion line of the legs. The angle of insertion will also be interesting. And some stretchers, of course. This fall I will make the new kitchen table, after some tests, and if it goes well, I will publish it on IG @esmorernegre (if it goes wrong, too). Good luck in your projects!