(date: 2024-09-29 21:08:30)
date: 2024-09-27, from: Lost Arg Press blog
Last week I walked into work to a brand-new Veritas spokeshave sitting on my bench. Chris had ordered several for students and kindly ordered an extra for me. (I’m spoiled, I know.) Grateful, I took a picture of my new tool and posted it to my social media account, not thinking much of it. The…
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2024/09/27/a-how-to-on-filing-new-spokeshaves/
date: 2024-09-25, from: Lost Arg Press blog
This summer, the U.S. Postal Service released 12 stamps featuring photographs by Michael Freeman from six different preserved Shaker communities, commemorating the 250th anniversary of the first Shakers arriving in America. Freeman, along with June Sprigg and David Larkin, published “Shaker: Life, Work, and Art,” in 1991. The stamps were designed by Postal Service Art…
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2024/09/25/shaker-stamps/
date: 2024-09-24, from: Lost Arg Press blog
This is an excerpt from “Shop Tails: The Animals Who Help Us Make Things Work” by Nancy R. Hiller. Nancy Hiller’s “Shop Tails,” a companion book of essays to “Making Things Work.” “Shop Tails” is different from “Making Things Work” in that it is structured around the animals that came in and out of Nancy’s…
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2024/09/24/what-is-anyone-for/
date: 2024-09-23, from: Lost Arg Press blog
A friend recently took a furniture design course taught by a guy I’ll call Mr. Famous Furniture Maker. During the class there were lectures, field trips to find inspiration, drawing lessons, scale model-making and critiques. “Well,” I asked my friend, “how was the class?” “Great,” he replied. “Now I know how to design furniture that…
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2024/09/23/now-shipping-principles-of-design/
date: 2024-09-23, from: Lost Arg Press blog
By the end of this week (assuming no more disasters), we should have a clutch of our new Exeter-pattern Furniture-maker’s Hammers for sale, as well as – finally! – “Principles of Design” (we thought we’d have it in June, but we’ve been bedeviled by cover problems at the bindery). “Principles of Design” is our title…
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2024/09/23/exeter-hammers-principles-of-design-dados/
date: 2024-09-22, from: Lost Arg Press blog
This comb-back stick chair is designed for dining and working at a desk, though its back is leaned back just a bit more to add some comfort. I’m offering it for sale for $1,500 via a random drawing. The price includes crating and shipping to your door anywhere in the lower 48 states of the…
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2024/09/22/for-sale-comb-back-stick-chair-in-sycamore-and-oak/
date: 2024-09-22, from: Lost Arg Press blog
In an article in “The Conversation,” researchers Rob MacKenzie and Richard Norby, with the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR), shared findings from a recent study published in Nature Climate Change. Their question: How will trees respond to more CO2 in the future? Their laboratory is a forest in Staffordshire, England. Their equipment, tall pipes…
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2024/09/22/in-30-years-oak-trees-will-have-more-woody-biomass/