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Hands Employed Aright
By Joshua A. Klein
Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847) was the first settled minister of the frontier town of Blue Hill, Maine. Harvard-educated and handy with an axe, Fisher spent his adult life building furniture for his community. Fortunately for us, Fisher recorded every aspect of his life as a woodworker and minister on the frontier.
In this book, author Joshua A. Klein, the founder of , examines...
Welsh Stick Chairs
By John Brown
Welsh Stick Chairs is a small but mighty book. At 104 pages long, this book can be read in an afternoon, but it has changed the lives of thousands of woodworkers all over the globe.
John Brown (1933-2008) was a chairmaker in Wales who specialized in Welsh stick chairs, a vernacular form of furniture that was typically made by the end users. Compared to Windsor chairs, Welsh stick...
Cut & Dried
By Richard Jones
Serious woodworkers have long been starved of accurate information on wood technology that's explained in language for artisans - instead of for scientists.
Author Richard Jones has spent his entire life as a professional woodworker and has dedicated himself to researching the technical details of wood in great depth, this material being the woodworker's most important...
Carving the Acanthus Leaf
By Mary May
Learning to carve the acanthus leaf is – for carvers – like a pianist learning a Chopin étude, a young oil painter studying the genius of Rembrandt or an aspiring furniture maker learning to cut dovetails by hand.
For carvers, especially those who focus on Classical Western ornament, there comes a time they will inevitably encounter the acanthus leaf, learn it,...
Making Things Work: Tales From a Cabinetmaker's Life
By Nancy R. Hiller
Furniture making, once a basic way to earn a living through an arrangement between makers and clients, has been discovered, like a rosy-cheeked girl plucked from a dairy farm in Devon and made over into a London model
For many of us, making furniture and cabinetry is still a way to earn a living, however marginal. We may do what we love every day, to paraphrase the marketing...
Roubo on Furniture
By Donald C. Williams, Michele Pietryka-Pagán & Philippe Lafargue
Representing a decade of work by an international team, this book is the first English translation of the 18th-century masterpiece: "l'art du Menuisier" by André-Jacob Roubo. This, second volume, covers Roubo's writing on woodworking tools, the workshop, joinery and building furniture.
"Roubo...
Stanley Catalogue No. 34
More than 100 years ago, Stanley Tools printed handsome catalogues that illustrated the company's woodworking and carpentry tools with detailed illustrations and descriptions of how the tools worked.
Though few of these catalogues survive, they are an invaluable source of information for hand-tool users, offering exploded parts lists of complex tools - such as the No. 45 plane - and advice on...
The Woodworker: The Charles H. Hayward Years Vol. III - Joinery
There is little doubt that Charles H. Hayward (1898-1998) was the most important workshop writer and editor of the 20th century. Unlike any person before (and perhaps after) him, Hayward was a trained cabinetmaker and extraordinary illustrator, not to mention an excellent designer, writer, editor and photographer.
Add to all that the fact that Hayward was, according to Robert Wearing, a "workaholic,"...
The Woodworker: The Charles H. Hayward Years Vol. II - Techniques
There is little doubt that Charles H. Hayward (1898-1998) was the most important workshop writer and editor of the 20th century. Unlike any person before (and perhaps after) him, Hayward was a trained cabinetmaker and extraordinary illustrator, not to mention an excellent designer, writer, editor and photographer.
Add to all that the fact that Hayward was, according to Robert Wearing, a "workaholic,"...
The Woodworker: The Charles H. Hayward Years Vol. I - Tools
There is little doubt that Charles H. Hayward (1898-1998) was the most important workshop writer and editor of the 20th century. Unlike any person before (and perhaps after) him, Hayward was a trained cabinetmaker and extraordinary illustrator, not to mention an excellent designer, writer, editor and photographer.
Add to all that the fact that Hayward was, according to Robert Wearing, a "workaholic,"...
Campaign Furniture
By Christopher Schwarz
For almost 200 years, simple and sturdy pieces of campaign furniture were used by people all over the globe, and yet this remarkable furniture style is now almost unknown to most woodworkers and furniture designers.
The latest book from Lost Art Press seeks to restore this style to its proper place by introducing woodworkers to the simple lines, robust joinery and ingenious...
With The Grain
By Christian Becksvoort
July 2023 - Note the change in cover colour.
A little knowledge about trees goes a long way toward improving your woodworking.
You don’t need a degree in dendrology to build a desk. But you do need intimate knowledge of how our raw material grows and – more importantly – how it responds to its environment after it has been cut and dried.
This knowledge...
Roubo on Marquetry
By Donald C. Williams, Michele Pietryka-Pagán & Philippe Lafargue
"To Make as Perfectly as Possible: Roubo on Marquetry" is the first English-language translation of the most important woodworking book of the 18th century.
A team of translators, writers, woodworkers, editors and artists worked more than six years to bring this first volume of A.-J. Roubo's work to an...
Mouldings in Practice
By Matthew Sheldon Bickford
Words from Chris Schwarz of Lost Art Press
After years of publishing woodworking information, you often hear that there is nothing new in the craft. Everything has been done before, written before and fully figured out.
I used to believe that was true, until I read the manuscript that was to become “Mouldings in Practice” by Matthew Sheldon Bickford....
The Essential Woodworker
By Robert Wearing
Robert Wearing's hand-tool masterwork. This book contains every skill you need to get into hand-tool woodworking. And it is explained with a minimum of fuss, using accepted traditional practice and with the assistance of more than 500 beautiful hand-drawn illustrations.
“The Essential Woodworker” is one of the best books on hand-tool usage written in the post-Charles...
The Art of Joinery, Revised Edition
By Joseph Moxon; Christopher Schwarz
"The Art of Joinery" was the first book published by Lost Art Press. It was out of print and unavailable for several years until they released this revised edition in the fall of 2013. Here is what the revised edition contains:
1. The lightly edited text of Joseph Moxon's landmark work on joinery - the first English-language text on the topic....
Joined: A Bench Guide to Furniture Joinery
By: Joshua A. Klein
Many woodworking how-to books have a distinctly clinical feel to them, taking a formulaic approach (complete with exploded computer-drafted imagery) to describe a woodworking process from start to finish. This method works well for conveying precise measurements and details for replicating a specific piece of furniture, but falls short when it comes to capturing the whole point...
Mortise & Tenon Magazine - Issue 16
The Table of Contents for Issue 16 of Mortise and Tenon Magazine is
Michael Updegraff – ''Gathered in Reverence: Kezurou-kai in the United States''
Ted Ingraham – ''The Whittier House Windows: Sash-making in Early America''
Joshua A. Klein – ''House By Hand''
Stefan Wolf – ''A Life of Its Own: The Practice of...
Greenwood Spoon Carving
By: Emmet Van Driesche
Carving a spoon from a piece of freshly harvested wood is a rewarding – and challenging – pastime. Tremendous knowledge about the properties of wood, and grain, and the use of sharp edge tools can be gleaned through this seemingly simple practice. There is more to it than meets the eye.
But many would-be spoon carvers don’t know where to begin. What...
Mortise & Tenon Magazine - Issue 15
The Table of Contents for Issue 15 of Mortise and Tenon Magazine is
“Ambulance for Monuments: Saving Romanian Heritage” – Dragos Nuta
“Making the Versatile Hutch Table” – Joshua A. Klein
“The Traveling ‘Ukulele” – Aaron Keim
“Accustomed to Handle the Hammer: The Nail Making Specialty in Pre-industrial Manufacture” –...
Worked: A Bench Guide to Hand-Tool Efficiency
By: Joshua A. Klein
There is a gap in most woodworking instruction. Somewhere in between tool descriptions (what they are and what they do) and step-by-step project tutorials, we are missing something vital. We may understand what a backsaw is, or what a hatchet is capable of… but how do we actually do it? How do we engage the wood with these tools? And how do we confidently proceed through...
The First Three Issues Book
A hardbound republication of the Issues 1-3 with additional essays from M&T editors Michael Updegraff, Jim McConnell, and Joshua A. Klein.
Foreword by Christopher Schwarz of Lost Art Press.
+450 pages, matte-coated paper, sewn binding. Printed in the USA.
TABLES OF CONTENTS
Issue One
"The Mortise & Tenon Magazine Manifesto" - Joshua A. Klein
"Imbued With Story:...
Mortise & Tenon Magazine - Issue 14
Issue Fourteen is no chronicle of the “good old days” – it’s an invitation to personal participation. The authors in this issue have crafted their words to inspire, but their aim is to inspire to something: namely, action. Mortise & Tenon Magazine want to see you roll up your sleeves at the bench, seek to cultivate personal skill, and enjoy the work of your hands.
TABLE...
Mortise & Tenon Magazine - Issue 13
TABLE OF CONTENTS
“The Fiddle’s Unfolding: Tracing a Folk Tradition” – Kerry Lambertson
“Fruitful Efficiency: On the Cultivation of Skill” – Joshua A. Klein
“A Blacksmith’s Contribution to Woodworking” – Kenneth Schwarz
“Root & Branch: Rediscovering the Uttermost Parts of a Tree” – Brendan Gaffney
“From...
Mortise & Tenon Magazine - Issue 12
Volume 12 Table of Contents:
“The Last Boatbuilder of the Nagara River” – Douglas Brooks
“The Simple Art of Wooden Planemaking” – Joshua A. Klein
“For the Love of History: A Journey into Practical Blacksmithing” – Jordan Goodwin
“Risk & Reward: Skill as a Safety Net” – Michael Updegraff
“The Van Gogh Chair”...
Mortise & Tenon Magazine - Issue 11
Volume 11 Table of Contents:
Nevan Carling – “Restoration of an 18th-century Loom”
Jeremy Tritchler – “Discovering The Trade, Art, And Mystery of 18th-Century Cabinetmaking”
Gustave Remon – “The Versatile Socket Axe”
Joshua A. Klein – “Finding The Groove: The Value of Batch Production Woodworking
Elia Bizzarri –...
Mortise & Tenon Magazine - Issue 10
Table of Contents:
Will Wheeler - “An Unexpected Gift: Discovering Calm in a Modern Apprenticeship”
Jeff Miller - “An Exercise in Precision & Randomness: Replicating David Pye’s Fluting Engine”
Al Breed - Book Recommendation
Joshua Klein – “Ready Hands: A Letter to My Sons”
John Ruskin - “Savageness”
George Walker –...
Mortise & Tenon Magazine - Issue 9
Table of Contents:
“The Sacred in the Common: Making an Icon Panel”– Symeon van Donkelaar
“Making the Sussex Chair” – Abdollah Nafisi
“The Legacy of Cesar Chelor” – Steve Voigt
“Scribes of Nature: Dendrochronology & the Deeper Story of Wooden Objects” – Michael Updegraff
“Examination of an 1815-1830 New...
Mortise & Tenon Magazine - Issue 8
Table of Contents:
“A Sense of Place” Amy Umbel
“Intermediate Technology in the Shop” Harry Bryan
Examination: Grain-Painted Chest Over Drawers
“Crafting an Education: Recreating Henry David Thoreau’s Desk with Eleventh Graders” – Cameron Turner
“The Legend of the Jimmy Possum Chair” – Mike Epworth
“Subversive...
Mortise & Tenon Magazine - Issue 7
Table of Contents:
"Partnership with Nature: An Interview with Peter Lamb"
"A Fresh & Unexpected Beauty: Understanding David Pye’s 'Workmanship of Risk'" - JOSHUA A. KLEIN
"The Weight of the Past" - BILL PAVLAK
"Freedom From Vises: Workholding Solutions From Three Traditions" - MICHAEL UPDEGRAFF
"A Good Day’s Work:...
Mortise & Tenon Magazine - Issue 6
Table of Contents:
The Good Life: Discussing Slöjd with Jögge Sundqvist
Cutting-edge Technology: Rediscovering the Double-iron Plane - Steve Voigt
A Chair Called Henry - Nathaniel Brewster
William Morris and George Nakashima: Finding the Middle Landscape - David Lane
Examination: 1804 Painted Cupboard
A Tale of Two Trees: The Radical Efficiency of Green Woodworking - Michael...
Another Work is Possible
By: Joshua A. Klein with Charpentiers Sans Frontières
Since 2002, Charpentiers Sans Frontières (CSF, 'Carpenters Without Borders') have travelled around the world to build, using the old ways. With axe, saw, plumb bob, and chisel, this diverse group of skilled craftspeople restored a medieval bridge at a castle in France, built a new hewn-truss roof system on a blacksmith shop...
Quercus Magazine - Winter 2023
Quercus Magazine, QM21, Winter 2023 - Summary of Contents
The Chairmakers Toolbox is introducing woodwork to a whole new audience, and this issue founder Aspen Golann tells us how they have won more than $100,000 in awards to do so. Then there’s a report from Handworks 2023 in Iowa, possibly
the most important show for woodworkers who love hand-tools. And we have practical things too. You...
Quercus Magazine - September/October 2023
One of those woodworkers to have their lives changed by Covid is Will Adams, who after the pandemic chose to resign his teaching job and become a toolmaker. Now he recalls the gradual path he has trod to become renowned for his marking tools. And for home woodworkers, Gary Rogowski shows how to temper your own plane blades with a propane torch and vegetable oil to make a high-angle Krenov-style tool...
Quercus Magazine - July/August 2023
This issue looks at taking a short course is increasingly popular for woodworkers of all abilities and experience, an opportunity to learn new skills and enjoy a therapeutic few days, making friends with strangers. There is a new series celebrating the Short Course Revolution starts this issue with a week spent making a Windsor chair at Westonbirt Woodworks, the feature revealing tools, tips and techniques...
Quercus Magazine - May/June 2023
There are few woodworking skills that rely as much upon specialist tools as ‘bottoming’ seats. There are so many options from adzes to scorps, and now James Mursell has added the Traviscraper and the Spokescraper to his range of chairmaking tools. And in this issue Peter Galbert, the renowned US maker of Windsors, shows how he sharpens and uses his seat shaping kit. These are tools that...
Quercus Magazine - March/April 2023
Robin Wood is one of the most significant and intriguing of 21st Century woodworkers, as such a woodsman and craftsperson, as well as campaigner, pioneer, tutor and now toolmaker. He, and a handful of others, have helped to inspire and aid a resurgency of traditional crafts, and for his endeavours was awarded an MBE for services to Heritage Crafts and Skills. No wonder Quercus Magazne have interviewed...
Quercus Magazine - January/February 2023
Worldwide, Bill Carter is one of the best known and most highly-respected of planemakers, producing English mitre planes, inspired by traditional styles, but with his own innovations. Bill has now been added to planemaking’s hall of fame, and posts 100s of entertaining video blogs to inspire budding toolmakers and offer any woodworker tips and ideas.
Other articles include:
Now in winter,...
Quercus Magazine - November/December 2022
QM15 November/December 2022
Anne of All Trades, perhaps the most famous and influential of all woodworkers today, has given Quercus an exclusive interview, with a life story of her remarkable life. She has 285,000 followers on Instagram, and has some of the most innovative and enjoyable
video blogs. Of course, that’s far from it all in the latest issue of Quercus….
• The well-known...
Quercus Magazine - September/October 2022
QM14 September/October 2022
Summary
The latest issue of Quercus features an interview with Thomas Lie-Nielsen, the driving force behind a renaissance in hand-tools over the last 25 years. Tom tells Quercus about the early days of his toolmaking business, and looks ahead, moving ahead after the pandemic and other challenges. There’s plenty more about tools in QM14, including Robin Gates’...
Quercus Magazine - July/August 2022
QM13 July/August 2022
The July/August issue of Quercus (QM13) pays special tribute to David Charlesworth, an icon of woodworking, and one of the most influential authors, presenters and teachers for many years. Woodworkers from around the world share memories of a remarkable man (who died in May 2022), with tips and techniques they’ve learnt from that softly spoken stalwart. There’s...
Quercus Magazine - May/June 2022
QM12 May/June 2022
The May issue of Quercus features an extract from Christopher Schwarz’s significant book on the making of Stick Chairs. The article will focus on the choosing of timber for chairmaking, written by one of the most well-known and influential of woodworkers worldwide.
There will be more about router planes, featuring the making Paul Sellers’ toolmaking kits. Quercus...
Quercus Magazine - March/April 2022
QM11 March/April 2022
The Quercus March/April 2022 issue (QM11) pays homage to the famous chairmaker, and the magazine’s co-founder, John Brown, with tributes from well-known woodworkers worldwide, including Christopher Schwarz, Chris Williams, Drew Langsner and Kenneth Kortemeier, and the lessons they learned from John. In the second instalment of our exclusive interview, Paul Sellers shares...
Quercus Magazine - January/February 2022
QM10 January/February 2022
Summary
Woodworking’s most influential author, tutor and maker gives an exclusive interview in the latest issue of Quercus Magazine. Paul Sellers has had a most significant impact for beginners and enthusiasts keen to develop new skills and techniques, arguing that you only need to learn three joints to make anything. We test an innovative new honing guide, for...
Quercus Magazine - November/December 2021
QM09 November/December 2021
Summary
The latest issue of Quercus features Jennie Alexander, author of Make a Chair from a Tree, with an extract from her new edition of perhaps the most significant of chairmaking books. You’ll find all the jigs and devices to make a post and rung chair, while elsewhere this issue Laura Mays tells how Krenov School students make a wooden plane the day they...
Quercus Magazine - September/October 2021
QM08 September/October 2021
Summary
The latest issue of Quercus is dedicated to toolmaking. Rex Krueger enthuses how he makes simple tools using chisels instead of plane irons to make toolmaking simple and inexpensive. You’ll be inspired by the travishers produced by Claire Minihan and the marking tools by Derek Jones. Doug Stowe makes his own hook knives for carving spoons. Michelle Mateo...
Quercus Magazine - July/August 2021
QM07 July/August 2021
Sharpening and workbench design are key features of the July/August issue of Quercus. Richard Wile offers tips on setting up a stone station for quicker, better sharpening and honing of chisels and plane irons. John Lloyd shows how to sharpen a carving gouge with ‘in-cannel- bevel, while Sean Hellman saves time and pennies by mending a broken bandsaw blade. Then there...