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(date: 2025-04-05 14:07:41)


For Sale: Comb-back Stick Chair in Figured Red Elm

date: 2025-04-02, from: Lost Arg Press blog

This comb-back stick chair is built entirely in American red elm, with the seat, arm and comb made from figured red elm, some of the most difficult wood I have ever saddled. The chair is raked back for lounging, reading or sitting by the fire. The chair’s features heavily shaped arms, tapered octagonal stretchers and…


https://blog.lostartpress.com/2025/04/02/for-sale-comb-back-stick-chair-in-figured-red-elm/


The Tool for Waves

date: 2025-04-01, from: Lost Arg Press blog

The following is an excerpt from “With All the Precision Possible: Roubo on Furniture.” This book is the result of more than a decade of work by an international team that produced the first English translation of the 18th-century woodworking masterpiece: “l’art du Menuisier” by André-Jacob Roubo. This translation covers Roubo’s writing on woodworking tools, the…


https://blog.lostartpress.com/2025/04/01/the-tool-for-waves/