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Apply Now for our Summer Workshop We are now taking applications for our Summer Workshop taking place June 17-21. After writing all week about the philosophy behind this five-day workshop, we are finally posting the application here. As explained in Wednesday’s post, the reason we are taking applications is because there will be no charge to students. Instead, we have set up a work exchange arrangement in...
Issue Three Table of Contents at Lie-Nielsen   Today, Mike and I are packing up for Lie-Nielsen’s Open House. This is always a highlight in our year because Tom throws such an awesome party. He is incredibly generous to us and we get to catch up with so many great friends we only get to see a few times a year. If you haven’t had a chance...
Egg on my Face   This is the kind of blog post I hate writing. I try hard to make sure all the i's are dotted and t's crossed when getting this publication together to go out the door to the printer. I have to do so much communication with the editorial team, authors, interviewees, sponsors, stockists, our printer, and the owners of certain...
M&T Shop Building: Installing the Second Floor This week was all about two things: clean up from the packing party and begin installing the second floor. We are using reclaimed 2”-thick barn flooring that Luke brought up with the frame. This stuff has lovely patina that fits in just perfectly with the rest of the shop. Despite its beauty, we pretty quickly realized that there were weaknesses...
The Newness of the Workshop As the Issue Four packing party is less than a week away, Mike and I have begun tidying up around the new shop in anticipation of our guests. We’ve constructed three massive worktables from pine boards, built and hung a temporary board-and-batten front door, installed the arched transom window on the second story gable overlooking the pond, and now we’re...
“The First Three Issues” Now Available for Pre-order For those of you who have been dying to dig into Mortise & Tenon Issues One, Two, or Three but have been unable to secure a copy of from the original printing, today’s your day. As I discussed on Monday, we have decided to republish all of these articles in a one-volume hardbound book we’re calling, The First Three Issues....
“Please Draw Godzilla on the Box” I guess I have a weird sense of humor but about a year ago I was delighted to hear of someone filling in the “Special Notes” sections of online order forms with off-the-wall requests for drawings on the box. The one that made me chuckle the most was “Please draw Godzilla on the box.” Making that kind of peculiar request...
Issue Three T.O.C. - “Resurrecting the Derelict: Hard Choices in the Conservation of a Chest” This is the final installment of our Issue Three table of contents announcement series. Check out the full T.O.C. here. (You can click on any of the article titles to read about them.) “Resurrecting the Derelict: Hard Choices in the Conservation of a Chest” by Joshua Klein No one wants to be guilty of destroying an antique. What if we...
One Week Left to Pre-order Issue Four Just got this photo from the printer… Issue Four is hot off the presses! Today they’re loaded in cartons and will begin making their way from Wisconsin to our storage facility in Maine. We’ve arranged for them to arrive next week several days before the big packing party on Friday the 23rd and Saturday the 24th where we (with a...
What Should You Expect to See From Us in 2017?   As we’re only days away from the packing party to ship out Issue Two, I can’t help but reflect on the year (11 months actually) since Issue One was released. 2016 has been a wild ride for me. Before M&T launched, I spent my work week alone in my studio regluing chairs and refinishing dining tables. I ran a...
A Deeper Purpose Note: The following post is in anticipation of the announcement about our 2019 summer workshop. Inspired by Otto Salomon, Kurt Hahn, Bill Coperthwaite, and others, we will be adopting a rather unconventional model that is more like Outward Bound for woodworkers than a weekend-long “Build a Shaker ___” or “How-to ___” class. It will involve days of physical labor shoulder...