Here is our latest video in the “Getting to Work” series, in which Mike walks through the sharpening of hand saws. It’s easy to get lost in the specialized terminology: “rake,” “fleam,” “slope,” “gullets,” “tpi/ppi,” etc. But Mike gives a dead simple explanation that will be hard to forget. Our goal in our books and videos is always to explain things in the most broken down and straightforward way. There’s enough chest-puffing craftwork out there, and we feel no need to compete. Instead, we just want to get people to the bench working with success.
-Joshua
Another installment in the Nature and Art of Workmanship series. This time Joshua and Mike discuss the fifth chapter which shows the limits of design. Much of the success is left to the workman.
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Joshua Klein’s article in Issue Seven: ”A Fresh & Unexpected Beauty: Understanding David Pye’s ‘Workmanship of Risk’”
Like so many Windsors, our chair is an anonymous work – a puzzle that spans nearly 250 years and perhaps two states. Thankfully, it has avoided catastrophe over the centuries and remains intact, untouched black paint and all, to serve as something as transcendent as it is enigmatic. There is beauty in that mystery – something captivating in its design and its origin. In late 2018, this chair was on the market for $30,000. While that might seem like an extraordinary sum – and it is – it remains only a fraction of the value of a similarly uncommon Queen Anne or Chippendale side chair from the same era. In many ways, “country furniture,” like our Windsor, is a bargain,...
Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, for your viewing pleasure, here is the moment you’ve been waiting for (drum roll please): the release of the cover of Issue Fourteen! Over the past two weeks, we’ve slowly unveiled the Table of Contents for this issue as a kind of teaser of what’s to come. Since Issue One, this has been our thing. It may seem a funny practice in the magazine world, where many publications recycle content on an 18-month cycle, but we’re not in the business of filling out page space with throwaway articles. Everything here is new, and exciting, and (we think) timeless. That’s why our back issues are as relevant now as when they were first published...
