We have a limited run of handmade slipcases hand printed with the image of a honey bee (the symbol of workers everywhere). The slipcase comes with a copy of “The Woodworker’s Pocket Book” plus brass mounting hardware. And we are offering the two together at a special price.
This project began when Texas Heritage Woodworks was raising money to help build out the bathrooms in their new building. We bought 200 slipcases to help them (we have bathroom issues ourselves).
But what to do with all these slipcases?
Katherine Schwarz, our newest employee, hand carved a woodblock image of the honey bee. Then she applied the print to the slipcases with a linen-colored paint. Each print is unique, and many of the bees have their own personality as a result (I love the ones that have one big eye and one little eye).
We have only so many of these slipcases. So buy now to avoid disappointment.
The slipcase is designed to be hung on the lid of a tool chest or on the door of a tool cabinet – or wherever you might need to keep the pocket book handy.
I’m really pleased to see some carving being (bee-ing?) done at Lost Art Press because that is my main woodworking area of interest. In a blog post, Katherine mentioned wanting to get some smaller tools. Flexcut has a line of excellent micro tools and the set of dogleg chisels would be perfect for cleaning up the tight areas in her stamps and flattening the bottom areas. A tiny skew would also help in some corners or to sever problem stringy spots. I often use a parting / v-shaped tool to outline areas and remove some waste material, in addition to using a knife to outline areas with stop cuts, like Katherine mentioned doing. The Flexcut Slipstrop is excellent for maintaining these small tools. I made a relief of a Ukrainian Tryzub as a Christmas ornament (it would also make a great stamp) and all of the above things made a big difference in how it turned out.
I hope to see more of Katherine’s carving in the future!
Does Texas Heritage Woodworks make the pencil slip case (?) that’s under the lid of your ATC in the new version of the book? Spotted on page 276. I don’t see it on their site. My pencils are always getting mashed in the tool trays.
Nope. We do. It’s on our site.
That is the Crucible Tools pencil pocket.
https://lostartpress.com/collections/tools/products/block-plane-pocket-pencil-pocket
I applaud your newest employee, Katherine. Further, I applaud you referring to her by name instead as your daughter.
My daughter works for me and as proud as I am of her and as hard as it is, I refer to her by name (and she calls me Tony)
Ditto on the carving comment. Another line of small tools are ones made by Dockyard, maybe a bit too small for some of the work shown in the bee carving photo. Also, for online learning, the videos made by Chris Pye who has retired, are now available on YouTube. Excellent teacher.