Category: Mouldings in Practice

“Mouldings in Practice” by Matthew Sheldon Bickford is now available in for your iPad, iPhone, Kindle or other electronic reader. The price is $16.

To purchase the Kindle version, click here.

To purchase the ePub version for iPad or iPhone, click here.

This is the same as the print book: full-color illustrations, all of the photos and the complete text. But with the electronic version you will be able to search the entire book, write electronic notes in the margins, change the font size and (of course) carry it with you anywhere (even the shop) on your device.

Unlike many electronic book files, we chose to make ours without DRM – the acronym for “digital rights management.” Many eBook files with DRM are a pain to use. You might be restricted from copying the file for backup, or even simply copying and pasting passages from the book.

Because you will download the file from us and not Amazon or iTunes, you have to move it onto your device manually. This is an easy process.

Amazon offers this tutorial for the Kindle: Transfer Files to your Kindle via USB

You also can read a tutorial about how to add an ePub to you iPhone or iPad here: https://blog.lostartpress.com/2011/10/21/how-to-add-an-epub-to-your-ipad-or-iphone/

To purchase this electronic book, simply add it to your shopping cart. After you check out, you will be given the link to download it. If you are an international customer, the process is different. Send $16 U.S. to john@lostartpress.com via PayPal and we will send you the link manually.

We apologize that we are not able to offer this file with the pdf of “Furniture Mouldings.” You can, however, download a copy for free here.

— Christopher Schwarz

All of the pre-publication orders of “Mouldings in Practice” have been packaged and labeled – they will all be in the mail stream by lunchtime.

The photo above shows about one-third of what we boxed up on Monday. The other two-thirds are in the truck or already with the U.S. Postal System.

I think you’ll enjoy Matt Bickford’s book, which I can recite almost by heart by now. While the information is golden, we’re also happy with the printing and binding, which was done in Michigan.

Several readers have asked for details on where this book will be available for sale, plus the electronic edition and the leather-bound versions. So here’s a quick update.

1. Stockists: “Mouldings in Practice” will be carried by Lee Valley Tools, Lie-Nielsen Toolworks and Tools for Working Wood in North America. In the United Kingdom, Axminster and Classic Hand Tools have agreed to carry it. Please note that whether or not a retailer carries a particular title is a decision made by the retailer – not us. If you would like your retailer to carry the book, let them know.

2. Digital Versions: We are converting “Mouldings in Practice” to both ePub and Kindle versions. I do not know when they will be ready, however. When they are ready, they will be available to international customers and will be DRM-free, of course.

3. Corinthian Leather: There will be a leather-bound version of the book for sale. I’m taking the unbound book blocks to the bindery today. Once we settle on the details we will put the book up for sale in the store. It will be first-come, first-serve. There is no waiting list or special VIP list or list of people who have bribed us with beer and saucy photos. But perhaps there should be. No, no. Scratch that. There is no list.

4. Signed Editions? These books are not signed by Matthew Sheldon Bickford. If you want one signed by him, I highly recommend you take one of his classes or catch up with him at one of the Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Events.

— Christopher Schwarz

…for writing a book that is shorter than “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest.”

Matt’s book, “Mouldings in Practice,” arrived a few minutes ago. And there are 26 books in a case instead of 16 (like the tool chest book). That allowed me to get them all into the house before the rain soaked them.

Time to shut up and start packing.

— Christopher Schwarz

Here are a few quick updates from Lost Art Press:

• “Mouldings in Practice” shipped today from the Michigan printing plant. If history and the trucking industry hold constant, we should receive the books on Monday. Today we received our order of 1,000 boxes, a case of industrial tape and 1,000 mailing labels (guard cat not included). We are ready to mail.

• We still have about 25 open orders for “Chisel, Mallet, Plane and Saw.” The books are on the way from the author, and we apologize for the delay. As soon as the books arrive (Saturday or Monday) we will dispatch your order.

• We have restocked on Lost Art Press T-shirts and have all the sizes in stock. Those of you who are waiting for T-shirts in size large will be getting your shirts soon. I’m headed down to mail them in a few minutes.

• And for those of you who have ordered a custom Roorkhee Chair: The legs are roughed out and I’ll turn them tomorrow.

More news to come next week, including a new book project and something else. I have not been drinking enough beer to tell you what that is. Sorry.

— Christopher Schwarz