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  • Applications Open for Chairmaker’s Toolbox Class
  • The Living Tools Project
  • Dreaming Up a Solution

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blog.lostartpress.com /1 month ago

Applications Open for Chairmaker’s Toolbox Class

The Chairmaker’s Toolbox is accepting applications for a scholarship class this August at Lost Art Press. All six students will receive free tuition and materials (plus some meals)...

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finewoodworking.com /1 month ago

The Living Tools Project

This initiative gives unused tools a second life by gifting them to aspiring makers.

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finewoodworking.com /1 month ago

Dreaming Up a Solution

Luthier Aaron Keim discusses how he modifies tool handles to avoid pain and injury while working.

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finewoodworking.com /1 month ago

Online Extras from FW Issue #323

Check out these awesome online extras from our latest issue, which is out right now!

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blog.lostartpress.com /1 month ago

Plaiting a Hammer Handle

While I was teaching a chairmaking class at the Woodworking School at Pinecroft last week, school manager Katie Bister offered to plait the handle of my Exeter hammer with the wood...

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finewoodworking.com /3 weeks ago

Making a Sewing Box

Israel Martin's sewing box demonstrates how leftover materials can be transformed into a practical, aesthetically pleasing personal project.

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finewoodworking.com /3 days ago

One Way to Get into Teaching

Jon Hammack shares his experience teaching at a local Woodcraft store, along with the steps he took to prepare.

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blog.lostartpress.com /1 week ago

Lego Workbenches

Last week, we received a treat of an email from Douglas Lambert, who recreated three workbenches from “Workbenches: From Design & Theory to Construction & Use” by Christoph...

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finewoodworking.com /1 month ago

STL 363: More Than One Way to Cut a Dovetail

Bob Van Dyke, Anissa, and Ben get together to talk about Fine Woodworking New England and the importance of embracing flexibility in your approach to woodworking techniques.

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finewoodworking.com /1 month ago

Holding it Together

Megan Fitzpatrick and Chris Schwarz share tips on customizing hardware and nails for simple projects.

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blog.lostartpress.com /2 weeks ago

Mind Upon Mind: Steambending Tip

Editor’s note: Our Mind Upon Mind series is a nod to a 1937 Chips from the Chisel column (also featured in “Honest Labour: The Charles H. Hayward Years”), in which Hayward wrote, “...

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blog.lostartpress.com /2 weeks ago

‘17th-century Essex County Cupboard’ Paint & Drawer-front Carving

Any moment now, we’re expecting an email that Peter Follansbee’s new book, “17th-Century Essex County Cupboard” will be arriving at the warehouse. So here’s an excerpt from Chapter...

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blog.lostartpress.com /1 month ago

See My Chairs at the ‘No Coast Furniture Salone’

I’m exhibiting two stick chairs at the “No Coast Furniture Salone” that runs from Friday, April 17, through Sunday, May 3, in an exhibit space at 1800 Race Street in Cincinnati, Oh...

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finewoodworking.com /1 month ago

Made You Look: Stronger Than Fancy, Iowa 1875

Step inside an Iowa workshop where everything — from the projects built to the techniques used — is rooted in the year 1875.

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finewoodworking.com /1 month ago

The Block Plane Earns Its Keep Every Day

Vic Tesolin shares why his trusty block plane is the number-one tool he keeps close by and how this keeps his shop momentum flowing.

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kk.org /1 week ago

Book Making

Tools for Possibilities: issue no. 190

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blog.lostartpress.com /3 weeks ago

For Sale: Kale’s Sawyer Windsor Settee

A year ago in the spring of ’25, while I, Kale, was still an apprentice, I ventured to Vermont to build a settee with George Sawyer at his workshop in Woodbury. This is the love ch...

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finewoodworking.com /1 month ago

Build a Contemporary Plant Stand

Inspired by James Krenov, Craig Vandall Stevens's contemporary plant stand emphasizes verticality through long, five-sided legs.

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survivefrance.com /1 month ago

Great Inventions

The ubiquitous 1859 Thonet No.14, or Vienna café chair is still in production today. ‘Since 1861, it has been made at the same factory in what was Bistritz am Hostein in the Austr...

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blog.lostartpress.com /1 week ago

Mind Upon Mind: Another Way to Use the Stanley No. 77 Doweling Machine

Editor’s note: Our Mind Upon Mind series is a nod to a 1937 Chips from the Chisel column (also featured in “Honest Labour: The Charles H. Hayward Years”), in which Hayward wrote, “...

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thewoodwhisperer.com /1 month ago

A new tool, an old tool, and some innovations | Tools Unleashed

Welcome to another episode of Tools Unleashed, where we take a first look at interesting and innovative tools you might not have discovered yet. These aren’t deep-dive reviews — ju...

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designboom.com /1 month ago

bad posture becomes design logic in mara bragagnolo’s birch plywood chair collection

designed around real sitting habits, the collection accommodates cross-legged, asymmetrical, and relaxed postures rather than enforcing a single ‘correct’ way of sitting. The post...

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finewoodworking.com /1 month ago

Fine Woodworking Issue #323

Featuring Craig Vandall Stevens, Bill Howes, Ben Strano, Christopher Solar, Israel Martin, and more. 

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knifemagazine.com /2 weeks ago

EverydayCommentary: Building a Knife Making Station, Part III

My wife wants a new headboard, after we got rid of our traditional mattress in favor of an adjustable one (because we are old…make fun all you want, I haven’t woken up in the middl...

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