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Red Oak Seven-stick Comb-back Chair – Lost Art Press

Red Oak Seven-stick Comb-back Chair – Lost Art Press

This seven-stick comb-back chair used to be constructed the use of pink oak all through my most up-to-date chairmaking elegance. It’s being presented at a bargain on account of a pair small beauty problems (which the general public is not going to understand).

This chair is one in every of my more moderen designs, which makes use of a four-piece arm (for steadiness) and a skinny shoe, which streamlines the glance by way of putting off visible bulk from the arm. It additionally is among the maximum comfy chairs I make.

This chair is about up for common use. The again leans 12° off the seat, and the seat is tilted 3°, so the again leans 15° off the ground. The seat is 16-3/4″ above the ground, which is a great peak for many sitters. Total, the chair is 38-1/2″ tall and there’s 19″ between the palms. 

Like any my chairs, the joints are assembled with cover glue and oak wedges, so the joints are robust however will also be simply repaired by way of long run generations. The pink oak is done with a home-cooked linseed oil/wax end that has no toxic solvents. The end provides low coverage, however it’s simple to fix by way of the landlord without a particular abilities or gear.

As to the beauty defects: Some of the tenons within the seat has a small little bit of chip-out. Additionally, I needed to ream fairly one of the crucial mortises within the underside of the armbow. You’ll by no means understand this except you flip the chair the wrong way up. Neither of the defects have an effect on the chair’s construction or convenience. 

Buying the Chair

This chair is $1,200 and is being bought by the use of a drawing. (I’m sorry however the chair can’t be shipped out of doors the U.S.) If you want to purchase the chair, ship an e mail to [email protected] earlier than 3 p.m. (Japanese) on Friday, Jan. 27. Within the e mail please use the topic line “Red Oak Chair Sale” and come with your:

  • First title and ultimate title
  • U.S. transport cope with
  • Sunlight hours telephone quantity (that is for the trucking quote simplest)

Transport choices: You might be welcome to select up the chair right here in Covington, Ky., and in addition get a loose yardstick and pencil. I’m glad to ship the chair in my view without spending a dime inside of 100 miles of Cincinnati, Ohio. Or we will send it to you by the use of LTL. The fee varies (particularly at the present time), however it’s normally between $200 and $500.

— Christopher Schwarz

Video: Rotating wings on the butterfly table

Video: Rotating wings on the butterfly table

Here’s the Butterfly Table that I’ve been reproducing. After running the rule joints, I assembled all the parts. I incorporated the rotating wings as proven however they don’t seem to be fastened but. There are dowel joints at each and every finish of the wings and the ones joints don’t seem to be glued. Due to this fact, I will elevate and decrease the wings at this level. Alternatively, they want to be fastened ready that may lead to the wings conserving the drop leaves at the right kind top (this is, the place the wings are flat with the middle best). Additionally, I sought after a solution to accommodate a long run repair for the doweled wing joints. If a dowel had been to damage (now not so most probably, as they’re ash), I sought after some way to take away the wings and refit the dowel joints.

Tim Killen's 17th century butterfly table

Here’s a image with the wings set at a top to create a flat floor throughout the span of the best. But, I nonetheless want a option to repair the ones wings at this optimum top. You’ll see a part of the decrease dowel because it enters the decrease stretcher on the proper. The wing itself does now not trip on the best fringe of the stretcher, reasonably it’s raised off the floor. That is the method it’s on the unique piece. So, I now want to get a hold of a solution to repair this place but permit a long run repair if vital.

Tim Killen's 17th century butterfly table

Here’s the meeting the wrong way up so you’ll be able to see the sockets in the block and the decrease stretcher.

Tim Killen's 17th century butterfly table

Underneath, I’ve proven the wing pressed down on the underside floor of the best leaf.  Then I drove a dowel down via the socket in the decrease stretcher. That socket is a “via” socket. The dowel used to be hammered down till it bottomed out in the wing’s socket. Then I lower the dowel flush with the backside floor of the decrease stretcher. I made a brass plate that covers the socket and dowel-end solving the wing’s up-down place and fighting the wing from losing down.

Tim Killen's 17th century butterfly table

Tim

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Workshop tip: Repurposed hardware containers

Workshop tip: Repurposed hardware containers

Like many woodworkers, I recycle plastic containers for hardware garage. This labeling trick shall we me clutch the correct container off the shelf each time. It’s not anything greater than a pattern of the hardware within—screw, bolt, or no matter— taped to the outdoor, with the scale and sort famous at the tape.

—CHARLES MAK, Calgary, Alta., Canada

Illustrations by means of Dan Thornton
From Positive Woodworking factor #301


Brush Care 101 | Popular Woodworking

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Unrelated Related Qs – Paul Sellers’ Blog

Unrelated Related Qs – Paul Sellers’ Blog

Those two questions got here on this week’s on-line mail. I perceive the place they’re coming from. As a vegetarian, I continuously devour one thing made and normally supposed to be a counterfeit for the true factor. Meals era can upload and subtract tastes in addition to they may be able to textures and appears. Professionals can invent meals to call for in keeping with sort no longer as a substitute however simply any other meals. I’ve eaten bacons produced from crops that might forestall even essentially the most discerning bacon butty eater lifeless of their tracks. However I’ve tasted some which might be completely horrible too. I’ve discovered to just accept no substitutes however to look any selection as simply any other sort. Camp espresso, a Emblem, can by no means exchange a Columbian espresso. It is only any other drink sort in the similar means tea is to espresso. With such a lot of possible choices for plant-based totally the rest you care to call, I’m mindful that we in woodworking have the similar issues coming from those that engineer flat forums to appear to be any wooden we wish to identify too.

My house-cooked vegetarian breakfast replete with plant-based totally sausages. Do they style like meat sausage? Who cares? They style nice and I devour them for the variability and goodness they provide me. I additionally like cooking as a part of no longer an accessory to the method of consuming!

Now how did I am getting there? Ah! Sure, I do know. It takes me again to my continuously-mentioned factor and that’s that continuously we need to see what one thing isn’t to look what it’s. Vice versa, it’s important to what one thing is to look what it isn’t. In my global, as a vegetarian, I hardly ever if ever search for a meals instead however deal with all issues as simply different kinds of meals or drink. In identical vein, MDF won’t ever be wooden although a big share of its constituents would possibly neatly be from wooden and neither can every other engineered subject matter for that subject. Beneath are a few questions desiring solutions. Evaluating the results of machining fabrics with the result of hand equipment isn’t one and the similar both. There are outstanding device processes that hand toolists would possibly really feel they want to parallel of their woodworking on the workbench; they may be able to get the affect that the result of hand equipment will have to be one and the similar. Most commonly that’s not sensible nevertheless it additionally wishes a little of explaining for readability in addition to figuring out our final targets. This would possibly result in an extended weblog (my same old unhealthy).

Satisfied New Yr,
Do you will have any tips on the best way to effectively aircraft forums to the similar thickness? This has been a problem for me in my woodworking. I at all times test forums for true flat surfaces and use this floor to sq. different surfaces. I take advantage of a #5 or #6 aircraft to try this and a capturing board for the perimeters. The issue is making an attempt to stay the flat floor dimensions of more than a few items the similar.
I suppose that this comes with revel in and taking smaller thickness corrections as you 0 in. Any help you’ll be able to be offering could be useful.

John

Hello Paul,

I’ve begun looking at your 1st episode within the new mattress sequence and famous the tactics you might be the use of with the bandsaw and planes to successfully size your subject matter. I’ve continuously struggled to successfully size longer subject matter in my makes an attempt to reach flatness/squareness the use of your method of planing a bit at a time beginning on the nostril. I continuously in finding myself coping with humps I expand alongside the face or tapers at the finish. Admittedly, I’m beautiful fascinated about flatness/straightness within the high quality of my forums, most effective to determine that the wooden will transfer a little an afternoon later. Are you able to assist me to higher perceive the precision purpose, in gentle of the place it will or will not be as crucial? That section stuck my consideration as you have been planing the legs and rails.

I respect the assist.

God’s blessings to you, sir,

Andy

Is the entirety I hand aircraft completely parallel between two faces and edges? All of it relies on the part portions. Running with hand planes to true up the principle face and edge promises twist-loose results and many of the equipment check in to those two faces be that the router planes for truing the faces of tenons or my mortise information.

Answering John.

Thanks for the greeting. Similar to you, John. Within the device global, particularly on the extra business finish, machines can true and ship sticks and stems of any measurement completely flat parallel and entirely squared through merely permitting the conveyor belt to ship the wooden to the ability feed and in such a lot of toes run in line with 2d the sizing of all dimensions is inside of minute fractions of thousandths of a centimetre. Much less subtle programs requiring an operative at hand feed the wooden out and in of the machines as a device can even give identical high quality of lower however with out the rate. House workshops continuously have a sequence of 4 or 5 machines that rip, crosscut, floor aircraft after which thickness aircraft in most effective mins. the texture take a look at will display no noticeable distinction in parallelity and when machined correctly adjoining faces will certainly be lifeless sq..

We hand toolists will have a dozen causes for non-device woodworking in our lives. Top-upward thrust residences, neighbour objection, house by myself and so forth, however then there’s the truth that we simply don’t need the device paintings in our lives. There may also be any other dozen causes for this too: Well being, protection, noise workout, and so on. The problem by myself is sufficient. We don’t catch the bus once we opt for a hike and neither can we take the ski elevate if we wish to climb a mountain. In my provide global I simply don’t wish to be a machinist and so stay them to a minimal. Over a 20-yr duration, I’ve decreased their presence to at least one 16″ bandsaw in my unmarried-automobile storage-sized workshop. It really works nice.

Having a look again within the historical past of antique furnishings when the majority of creating used to be making the use of hand equipment and also you temporarily see the financial system of creating the use of frame power most effective. The unseen portions underneath drawers and the insides of a few cupboards personal the device marks left within the wooden through the maker. Via this, we quickly be told from what used to be made through hand through the masters in their craft, sensible woodworkers who advanced explicit strategies and requirements for truing their wooden throughout the restriction of a time period. You inform me that you simply straighten and flatten one face after which paintings the threshold the use of a capturing board. Regardless of the process or the equipment used, those two surfaces are ready purely to check in the structure equipment to. The marking gauges reference one or each faces as will the inventory of the sq.. Additionally it is towards those two trued faces that we determine parallelity to noticed and aircraft to and it’s right here that we need to make choices. How parallel is parallel and what are the parameters we want to paintings inside of?

The gauge traces move in however do I at all times persist with them? Almost certainly intend to but if transparent wooden comes and undulation can’t be discerned I normally forestall. Why? As a result of most commonly it’s going to no longer subject.

Staring at my movies would possibly neatly give the affect that the entirety is thickness planed to perfection so that we’ve got equality all over. On the whole, I don’t. In some cases, I will be able to. Making doorways I’m beautiful top in self-call for. For my contemporary mattress, the bar used to be a lot decrease. What used to be the variation? Measurement, distance between elements, strengths relating to flexing underneath pressures, tolerance, wasted energies, the interaction between sides and the way they relate in all in their key portions; my determination-making referring to parallelity in thicknesses, and so on are all made minute through minute. With a mattress or desk, the elements and distances are some distance aside, lengthy, distanced from one any other. I let issues slide extra as a result of no person can draw a comparability on such portions because the lengthy facet rails as to parallelity and thicknesses. It makes no distinction if one finish of a six-foot rail is an 8th of an inch narrower in thickness or part an inch in width. No one can see to visualize or gauge the variation visually.

The face-mark, face-edge marking spans centuries of woodworking. There are different programs too, however in western woodworking, those appear to have stood the take a look at of time. Planing that greater first face true and giving it its marking attests to our paintings and approval. This would be the face we can use for registering all the equipment too up to conceivable. The adjoining face shall be trued string and true too, with the addition of squaring it to the primary confirmed face. This too will get its face-edge mark as proven. The usage of the marking gauge to ascertain the road of the overall size for thicknesses from those traces is our job now. Having a look within antique cupboards, the backsides of them continuously display many discrepancies cupboard makers and joiners lived with. there used to be no wasted power leading to wasted time. A rail to a door may well be a millimetre thicker however the distinguished face shall be flush with the stile. taking a straightedge to the interior will continuously display that it used to be planed to an overly slight slope to feather within the discrepancy and that used to be applicable. Fashionable machining will paintings most effective with an identical thicknessing in a different way it simply is not going to paintings to mass-make within the loads and hundreds. However we aren’t operating in and even close to the ones geographical regions. Believe belt sanders 3 toes huge the place all the doorways move via and move directly to a sprig device that delivers the completed doorways on the different finish.

What am I pronouncing? We hand toolists may also be and are for the principle section some distance, way more tolerant than others would possibly continuously assume however on the identical time we need to practice positive regulations as intently as conceivable. The 2 faces face- and edge-marked make sure that we will make a superbly sq. and untwisted door. The body or field will flush or clean or absolutely aligned with and through those two reference surfaces. The other facets would possibly neatly have minor discrepancies, small variations in thicknesses and such, however those are sorted with the aircraft ahead of or after glue up. Our device the use of neatly-confirmed easy methods to determine registration faces to synchronise all of our structure and floor planing, and so on signifies that the essential faces absolutely align while the other faces at the insides will in the end want some remedial planing to stage the portions and this varies in keeping with our stage of tolerance once we deliberate for parallelity.

Those dovetails glance nice. 10 other folks noticed them together with woodworkers with true talent and each one among them used to be inspired with the standard of the workmanship. They have been lower freehand without a information for angles and no measuring used to be made. Have a look at them and you are going to see that each pin and tail are other in measurement and attitude. It used to be intentional to get them as shut as conceivable with out overworking the structure.

I’ve noticed many a work of excellent furnishings from some ancient previous the place deep kerf from round saws, adze and awl chops after which pit noticed sawing too had been an built-in a part of again panels, within unseen faces and so forth. This financial system of effort and time used to be an element of handwork. The finer the calls for in their consumers, the fewer those may well be.

Answering Andy:

Understand the thickness discrepancy between the 2 forums. I merely planed and scraped them stage after the glue had dried. the other faces absolutely align with one any other. That is the facet rail of the mattress. I can have left the discrepancy in. It used to be the interior face the place the bed lies and no person would have ever noticed it.

Following on from my solution to John, it’s a judgement name on many stuff straightness. Lengthy bends in wider forums for such things as the facet rails of the mattress and backside rails of the pinnacle and footboard truly don’t want to be lifeless instantly. I would possibly even say rethink twists in such items too. The sheer weight of enormous frames mixed with adjoining forums can tame bends and bows through sheer weight by myself.

With such a lot of slats in position and with the pulling energy of screws, there used to be no means this headboard used to be going to come back out twisted.

The 2 rails and posts to the headboard felt relatively gentle as soon as framed and fitted however including the slats looked as if it would about double the burden. I had no longer anticipated that, however that mass of weight from all spaces would certainly power compliance simply when assembled and status in position with the bed put in. While we goal for twist-loose inventory, it doesn’t take lengthy to lose the thickness for the sake of taking out twist. Let’s take the mattress. I made positive that the posts for the pinnacle and footboard have been twist-loose, instantly and true and the perimeters have been all sq.. Any small level of discrepancy right here will telegraph into the rails more than one instances and the ones more than one instances will throw the entire body into a big twist. The stoutness of the posts will stand inflexible and immovable. The thinner rails alternatively will flex way more readily. Including the slats, all 19 of them, totals a width distance of just about 30″.

The sheer weight of the mattress too will ensure not anything might be able to stand twisted. Select your battles!

Mix the pulling energy of the screws via untwisted slats over this sort of mixed width will serve with the posts and the untwisted and instantly different rail to drag the entire into submission. A hinged door alternatively should be made untwisted as it most effective has one mounted and immovable stile. The loose or floating stile should be made in direct alignment to the mounted (hinged) stile in a different way the door will seem, as it’s, twisted. Tabletops practice a identical attention. Bows positioned in reverse instructions whilst exaggerating the issue can be utilized to counter one any other in glue up. I have a tendency to let some bows move and easily stage them to flat throughout-the-board width most effective. In 95% of circumstances, this technique works simply positive. At the mattress, I became the lengthy, curved bows inwards in order that striking bed beef up forums in driven the edges out to equalise parallelity. There are lots of methods of the business we use to drag and push the portions to compliance. If a tabletop finally ends up with a dipped hole then including a go member beneath, between the apron rails will push the hole as much as stage the similar means whether it is cambered the rail serves as an anchor to drag it to with flip buttons, cleats or screws.

And you might be proper find wooden this is instantly someday, after truing, continuously takes on some unpredictable curve the following.

the Crucible Warrington Hammer – Lost Art Press

the Crucible Warrington Hammer – Lost Art Press

At most sensible: an aluminum prototype. Center: a gentle metal prototype (no floor completing). Under: My unique.

Small cross-peen hammers are extremely helpful in furnishings making. I’ve had one in my chest for just about two decades.

“Wait,” you may well be pondering. “Chris didn’t checklist this hammer in his fresh stock of his chest.”

You’re right kind. That’s as a result of we’ve been reverse-engineering my favourite Warrington to make our personal model. It’s now in items. Its manage is off to the handle-maker. And the head, which we in moderation measured, is now sitting lonesome on my table.

American citizens don’t have a lot of a historical past with this type of hammer. It’s a Brit factor, similar to the lump hammer we make. I don’t know precisely why this is the case. Warrington’s are moderately helpful.

This small hammer (with a couple of 4-ounce head) is perfect for environment and sinking small nails. The cross-peen (often referred to as the cross-pane) begins the nail. You grasp the nail between your thumb and forefinger and strike it with the pane. (The pane misses your hands and hits the nails.) Then you definately flip the hammer round and end the activity with the hammer’s spherical face.

The cross-peen may be ideally suited when environment moulding planes. I exploit it to knock the aircraft’s iron towards the blind aspect of the escapement, making sure the iron is consistent with the profile of the aircraft’s sole.

This photograph presentations the most sensible and backside of the prototypes. The emblem will probably be on the underside of the cross-peen.

And a Warrington is a superb plane-setting hammer. Its weight and dimension are ideal for making lateral changes to dam planes or bench planes. (As a result of I’ve a Warrington, I’ve by no means actually sought after a devoted plane-adjusting hammer. There’s no use.)

The Crucible Warrington will probably be milled out of 1 block of hardened metal and contours a large number of the stunning chamfering and tapering you don’t see on trendy hammers of any sort. The manage will probably be hickory and set into the head with a picket wedge.

Like every our equipment, the hammer will probably be made and assembled fully in the United States.

It’s going to be slightly pricey, like our lump hammer. The hammer head is a tough little bit of machining. Although it calls for much less metal than our lump hammer, it has to spend so much extra time in the mill. And the manage is a 100-percent customized activity (our lump hammer is a inventory trend that we alter).

I feel it’s going to be value it. I completely adore those little hammers, and this one is in response to one in all the most lovely ones I’ve ever encountered. It used to be given to me by way of planemaker Wayne Anderson a pair many years in the past and I’ve stored it shut ever since.

We are hoping to have those in the retailer in Would possibly. 

— Christopher Schwarz

Closing the Year With Thanks!

Closing the Year With Thanks!

Twas the eve ahead of Christmas, a chippie put down his gear, swept the store flooring, and positioned the gear away for a couple of days’ relaxation. His fingers, aching greater than standard, and his frame, gave the impression extra wearied than standard. The loneness of end, finalising issues, nobody else can do, rests on his shoulders. Questions glide in, out, from side to side and throughout with each and every brush stroke skimming the picket with silent liquid flowing out and the gentle displays his care.

It used to be Christmas eve when those panels got here in combination. Mesquite for the centre panel and the frieze on all sides of the oak and ebony stripes.

I keep in mind the years when beds and eating tables had been ‘wanted’ for Christmas supply as even though lifestyles relied on it and the paintings that took me repeatedly into overdue nights, early mornings after which via the night time too needed to be executed. How wearied I felt turning in on time after a four-hour commute each techniques. Such are the days of the lone makers.

Those are the credenzas in position a couple of years after supply. Nonetheless taking a look logo new, I can’t assume of a higher state of affairs for them to be in. I confess to a deep happiness and thankfulness for the present in designing those items. Few items can fit the alternative given to me in what we did right here. See how a lot darker they’re now than once we delivered them. Comparability under.

In 2008 the order for 2 mesquite credenzas got here in — no longer too many days ahead of the Christmas vacation. Then midway via the supply date used to be modified, introduced ahead from the twenty fourth of January to the nineteenth; at some point ahead of President Obama’s Inauguration. The credenzas needed to be in position the day ahead of. I recall an hour in line with day’s sleep for 3 days for me.

I finished the design above 3 weeks ahead of Christmas and began it two weeks ahead of. There are two of those, one all sides of the door resulting in the Oval Workplace in the Cupboard Room. It’s going to have truly taxed us to drag it in combination and ship by means of the nineteenth of January however we did it! We did paintings Christmas day too even though.

My enjoyment in making at all times overcomes the weariness I infrequently really feel in the positive processes of pulling and pushing, lifting, putting, shoving, stretching and compressing. Each time I make my thoughts focal point on the individual I’m making for. This turns out at all times to secure me. Such is the energy and dynamic of designing and making. In some ways I’m grateful to not have shoppers in line with see, and that the entirety I now make comes from my internal being the place the design formulates in a gentle succession of preplanned steps. To explain paintings as pleasure turns out to a few an ordinary factor. I believe few have the pleasure of 3-dimensional making in a subject matter this is so numerous. My granddaughter’s child crib got here in conjunction with all the wanted joints in a little while. I used to be happy for the joints after I noticed the three-year-old status with each toes inside of it despite the fact that it’s however a foot lengthy.

This used to be from a few years in the past. I made it for my granddaughter’s Christmas provide. Quarter-sawn offcuts principally. I used housing dadoes right through. It’s the best piece I ever made with hearts in it.

Those appear small and senseless issues, however I took inventory of my mom’s request for quite a lot of chopping forums via the years. She most popular small and skinny to clunky, chunky and heavy that turns out the extra prevalent in kitchens nowadays. I relied on what she mentioned in her ingenious talents and that comes with her kitchen talents past the dressmaking she labored at as a full-time year-round maker.

Produced from mesquite, those forums and spatulas won’t ever crack, warp in anyway and face up to any of the standard picket inclinations. I came upon that maple used to be perhaps to crack, twist and warp by means of comparability. Put six-inch huge mesquite in a bucket of water in a single day and it expands an insignificant 2mm, put every other picket in the similar bucket and so they all increase 10mm minimal.

That is one in every of my closing items this yr. It’s the best one in every of its type in the global. A hand-made, hand-cut dovetailed Zassenhaus espresso grinder made out of mesquite minimize down from a tree I took from Texas 30 years in the past in a wasteland tour close to the place I lived. I got rid of all of the steel parts to reinstall them in my handwork. I completely loved this actual paintings as it’s for one in every of my kids who I do know will treasure it for the years yet to come.

I’m really not at all times positive why I really like making easy items like this. Mainly, I replicated what already existed that used to be well-made sufficient however then I added a couple of options of my very own. One function used to be so as to add some inside of diverters in order that the grindings didn’t land on the rim of the drawer after grinding and thereby drop the powder in all places the countertop. I added a tensioned metal leaf spring to the facets of the drawer in order that the drawer self-centred in the opening. I believed the lateral openness all sides of the unique drawer about 4mm on each and every facet, used to be to permit both for enlargement if rainy or gravelly powder from the espresso grounds. After all, the dovetails right through the field back and front and to the drawer had been for sure an improve.

This stand is for a dangling crystal gentle catcher in the type of a around prism. Flip the strings a couple of instances and it rotates at pace and slows to a gentle reciprocating spin to spin rainbows in refracted gentle round the room.

Cellular gentle catcher stands on the window sill the place the prisms cut up the gentle into brilliant colors that spin off the partitions and ceilings. It’s a easy present made out of strips of scrap picket from my newest venture.

I made this one from 1/8″ mesquite and 1/16″ beech. The stem I tenoned via the foot with two shoulders left and proper. Easy to make most commonly with a spokeshave for shaping after which scraping with a skinny scraper that bends to the contour.

Smartly, this has after all been and nonetheless is my way of life. Not anything of the previous 58 years full-time day by day making would I modify. I made possible choices for this long term planing at age 15 in 1965 and right here on the cusp of 2023 I’m nonetheless making. Who’d have concept that conceivable?

I am hoping that you’ve a phenomenal Christmas. Thanks for spurring me on in the supply of my craft into your fingers, for perpetuating the lifetime of an insignificant chippie following in the steps of his Maker

‘Stanley Tools Catalogue No. 34’ Closeout – Lost Art Press

‘Stanley Tools Catalogue No. 34’ Closeout – Lost Art Press

We’re ultimate out our reprint of the “Stanley Tools Catalogue No. 34,” and are promoting last copies for $10 every, merely to disencumber area at the warehouse cabinets. Each and every acquire comes with a loose PDF replica – as soon as the 450 (or so) print copies are offered out, we’ll proceed to supply a loose PDF of the 1914 catalogue right here at the weblog.

This catalog presentations just about each and every software wanted in a hand-tool store 100 years in the past, from the chisels to the butt gauges to each and every kind of aircraft within the corporate’s line. The textual content explains what every one is used for and the way it purposes in a different way from different equivalent gear.

The catalog additionally has implausible exploded perspectives of most of the advanced gear, corresponding to Stanley’s miter bins, the multi-planes and handplanes. It’s an excellent useful resource to have available at a device meet or vintage marketplace – now not simplest to spot antique gear, however to peer if all of the portions are intact.

If you’re simply entering hand gear, we predict you’ll to find this catalog a pleasure to learn, hang and be informed from. The tips in it’s factual and easy – now not the puffery you get from many trendy catalogs. And should you gather or admire antique hand gear, we predict you’ll love this catalog, which reproduces the antique drawings with outstanding readability.

As soon as those are long past, we don’t seem to be reprinting. So get it now or endlessly hang your (Harvey) peace.

Fitz

The Chairmaker’s Toolbox – FineWoodworking

The Chairmaker’s Toolbox – FineWoodworking

How did you get into woodworking?

The majority of other people I meet have made a option to pursue woodworking. I regularly in finding woodworking beginning tales aren’t easy; neither is mine. In case your option to delve into the business, the craft, or the gear equipped any demanding situations alongside the way in which, you may well be excited about giving again to the group you’re part of. There’s one woodworking group I am keen on as it in particular celebrates woodworkers that may no longer really feel secure in widespread woodworking areas.

The Chairmaker’s Toolbox (CMT) transforms custom. It celebrates teaching new generations of craftspeople that experience felt driven away or unwelcome. It supplies training in each study room shape and thru gear themselves. You’ll be able to donate cash or gear in sort and every shall be used to toughen a rising group of makers. Possibly you’ve got a selection of gear sitting at the hours of darkness which may be useful to somebody intending to start.

I’m extremely joyful by way of the chance of celebrating new generations of woodworkers. Let’s face it: woodworking can also be dear and tough to get admission to. My revel in in woodworking unfortunately comprises forcing my means into areas that weren’t precisely welcoming. As unpleasant because the tales is also, the mentality in the back of them nonetheless informs many seasoned woodworkers nowadays. The Chairmaker’s Toolbox avoids heartache tales for different novices excited about studying woodworking. CMT gives investment to woodworkers which have been traditionally underrepresented. Reasonably than pushing other people away, the Chairmaker’s Toolbox welcomes them in.

How are you able to have the same opinion?

To donate to the CMT project, seek advice from the web page right here:
https://www.thechairmakerstoolbox.com/donate

To be told in regards to the gear or observe for gear, take a look at the CMT challenge right here: https://www.thechairmakerstoolbox.com/the-gear


French Cleat Modular Closet System

French Cleat Modular Closet System

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Modular Closet Parts

By way of the usage of other organizers, you’ll be able to create the closet of your goals!  Listed here are the usual modular closet parts.

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The entire parts are built with the similar steps, the one distinction is the duration of the perimeters and the selection of cabinets.  Apply the development steps under, however use the diagrams to get a hold of your lower record.

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Really useful Fabrics for Modular Closet Carcasses

You’ll use a number of other fabrics to construct your closet parts.  As proven, I used 3/4″ hardwood plywood, ripped to 11-1/4″ broad, with the entrance edges completed with an iron on edge banding.  All cuts then are simply move cuts as proven within the part diagrams.

  • 1×12 Whitewood Forums
  • 3/4″ plywood, ripped into desired width (now not more than 16″) and entrance edges edge banded
  • 12″ or 14″ prefinished closet shelving forums

Rip Width for Carcass Items (if the usage of plywood)

I ripped my closet items to 11-1/4″ (identical as 1×12) and built (as proven).  

Then again, this isn’t a deep shelf, and might not be appropriate for folding tall pants.  For a bigger individual the usage of the closet imagine a 14″ or 16″ plywood rip.  Don’t cross over 16″ – as this may occasionally transform very heavy for this sort of putting.