We are quite pleased to have joiner Peter Follansbee as the host of today’s Open Wire.
Peter’s specialty is 17th-century woodworking, though lately he has returned to chairmaking as well. If you love this kind of stuff, I recommend you subscribe to his brand new substack, which is named Follansbee’s Substack.
Today Peter has given up part of his Saturday to answer your woodworking questions (feel free to ask about his bird watching hobby as well).
Here’s how it works: Type your question in the comment field. Peter will answer it. It is that simple.
Author Peter Follansbee (pictured above from a few years ago) is hosting this Saturday’s Open Wire here on the Lost Art Press blog. You can ask him, well, whatever you want. But you’ll get the best answers if you ask about 17th-century-style carving and joinery, birds and beard care.
Follansbee is author of “Joiner’s Work” and co-author (with Jennie Alexander) of “Make a Joint Stool from a Tree“; he also wrote an introduction to the third edition of Alexander’s book “Make a Chair from a Tree.” He recently completed a subscription video series, “Make a Jennie Chair with Peter Follansbee.” He’s now working on his second reproduction of a 1680s chest (his first one is shown below), and writing a book about it (due out from Lost Art Press when it’s done).
He also recently began writing on Substack – you’ll find him at “Follansbee’s Substack.”
I hope you will stop by this Saturday and ask him a few questions. (We’ve opened the Open Wire to our authors, and so you can look for more guest hosts in the coming weeks.)
Joshua Klein. Photo from the Mortise & Tenon website.
Today for our Open Wire session we have Joshua Klein, the founder of Mortise & Tenon Magazine, as our host. Joshua and his crew are as hardworking as they come. And so we were surprised when he volunteered to spend a Saturday answering reader questions.
Here’s how it works. Ask your question in the comments below. And Josh will post his response.
The comments will close for this post about 5 p.m. Eastern.
You can ask Joshua about all things M&T, Jonathan Fisher and homesteading in Maine, and about the “new” house he and his family, along with Michael Updegraff (M&Ts associate editor), and the sometimes-help of an army of friends, are re-constructing (it will be the Klein family home when it’s done). Joshua writes:
Besides starting to work on Issue Fifteen (which ships in September), Mike and I have been intensely focused on the restoration of an 1821 hand-hewn timber-frame house that we disassembled and moved to my property. We’ve spent months tackling numerous timber and joinery repairs before raising the whole thing on its new granite foundation. We’ve been chronicling the entire project each weekday at the M&T Daily Dispatch. This house embodies so much of the “art and mystery” of pre-industrial carpentry.
The “Old Jordan House,” now raised (from the Mortise & Tenon website).
I hope you will stop by this Saturday and Joshua a few questions (and I hope Mike might chime in, too!). We are opening up the Open Wire to our authors, and so you can look for more guest hosts in the coming weeks.
