(date: 2024-10-16 07:22:20)
date: 2024-10-16, from: Lost Arg Press blog
As I got ready to teach my Dutch tool chest class last weekend, I realized I was incredibly rusty as far as succinct instruction for this project. I checked my calendar, and I’m pretty sure the last time I taught this class in our shop was the weekend of May 6, 2022 – and the…
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2024/10/16/dutch-chests-back-in-class-rotation/
date: 2024-10-15, from: Lost Arg Press blog
Good news: We now have 500 pristine-perfect GoDrillas in our warehouse, and we’re shipping them out as fast as you can order them. Today ends our six-month saga with manufacturing difficulties with this tool. If you care about sob stories involving aluminum extrusions and custom lathe tooling, then this is the bedtime tale for you….
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2024/10/15/the-godrilla-saga-with-a-happy-ending/
date: 2024-10-15, from: Lost Arg Press blog
The following is excerpted from Dr. Jeffery Hill’s “Workshop Wound Care.” The book delves right to the heart of what you need to know when faced with common workshop injuries, from lacerations, to puncture wounds to material in the eye. Dr. Hill is an emergency room physician and an active woodworker. So he knows exactly…
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2024/10/15/tetanus-is-a-bad-way-to-die/
date: 2024-10-14, from: Lost Arg Press blog
We have a large batch of our new Exeter furniture-maker’s hammers for sale in our store now. These hammers are perfectly sized for people who build casework and chairs. They are the ideal weight for driving in 4d and 6d nails, smacking wedges in place and adjusting bench planes. We’ve spent about three years developing…
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2024/10/14/now-shipping-exeter-hammers/
date: 2024-10-13, from: Lost Arg Press blog
Our latest book, “Principles of Design” by William H. Varnum, offers a systematic method to design furniture, plus a series of rules that guide you in the process. Perhaps even more important, “Principles of Design” shows you how to interpret other people’s design. Or how to fix your own designs. Instead of saying something looks…
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2024/10/13/a-cheat-sheet-for-principles-of-design/