I ripped up some curly maple stock for tool handles and also found a smaller sized blank of the same ‘tiger maple’, but not a lot of stripes and fashioned a handle to match my other tool handles. I use the tapered octagonal handles like illustrated in Moxon or from the 1596 ill fated Nova […]
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I bought this a while back at the local swap meet and gave the guy his asking price, something I normally don’t do. It has remnants of the original Norton Abrasive Co label and I thought it said ‘Queen Creek’, but on doing some research I discovered it was in fact ‘Queer Creek’ and was
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When I build a reproduction, I try to remain as faithful as I can to the construction of the original – even if my modern brain says it’s not ideal. The original builder of this early 18th-century table used several techniques that wouldn’t fly in a modern shop. For one: The bottom of the drawer is
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‘For man never slept In a different bed – And, to sleep, you must slumber In just such a bed.’ I don’t know who said that but I like it. Stephen Read more…
A new law jeopardizes the livelihoods of some of the finest artisanal guitar makers in the United States and Canada.
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