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Making a hayfork

I don't need a hayfork

There are no truths

an Essex County chest with drawer

shaving chair rungs

Working up a new oak log

More about Devon chests

Some Devon carved chests

Carved box & panel for sale

still thinking about spoon carving

a look at some Chester Cornett chairs

Chest plans closeout sale etc

Spoon carving revisited

Dedham box front

Some records re: coopers & pipestaves

From Jennie Alexander's notes

long-winded

Plain 17th century New England furniture

a little of this & that

Joined stool & carved panel for sale

Square peg, round hole

the Sheffield Axe by Wood Tools

A bad day of chairmaking

Strapwork box for sale

Wainscot

Wainscot chairs, pt 2

Wainscot chairs

Sharpening a carving gouge & V-tool

17th-Century Tools: Two carved panels

Influencing each other

I still stumble along

Craft Genealogy & the magazine

a look at some Devon chests

Carved box class, April 2025

a visit with Rich Starr

For sale: Two boxes, one chair

Dedham box at Yale

Two old mortise gauges

Pitsawing part 2

Pitsawing (part 1)

about promotion

More tills in chests & boxes

Tills

Ladderback chair for sale: SOLD

More carving as time-filler

How long does that take?

Carving as time-filler

Hadley Chests

it came out of hiding

Reposted: a look at layout for the Dedham chest carvings

the new carving videos

new video series: Dedham Carvings

fore plane/scrub plane/schrupphobel/gerfschaaf

Oak boards: riven and quartersawn

For Sale: a carved panel and a ladderback chair

Carving video in the works

"Hickry-bark" seats

Rung-skippers, green chairs

Ladderbacks assembled

Loft sale: two brettstuhls on sale

It's still chairmaking

time for some chairmaking

It was long but it wasn't strange

My Craft Genealogy project

Thomas Dennis carvings, pt. 3

Some Devon carvings, some Ipswich carvings

Some carving details

Thomas Dennis shop tradition, pt. 2

old Windsor chair methods w Elia Bizzarri

Learning new old ways

2 boxes for sale

hickory bark harvest

the Thomas Dennis carvings; pt. 1

Jennie Alexander's End Vise Pole Lathe

Replacing a gouge handle

three Connecticut carved boxes

Bill & Wille

Hickory bark seat, diamond weave

Boxes in waiting, chairs filling up the place

the MFA cupboard project, c. 2009-2010

I threw this out years ago

Joined furniture at Peabody Essex Museum

my craft genealogy project:

more strapwork carving

Connecticut joinery & carving, pt. 3

Some strapwork carving

Carved oak box: SOLD

Carved box class in September

Applied moldings

Connecticut chests, pt. 2

Connecticut furniture: "sunflower" chests

the Shakespeare of furniture

bending, molding & painting

a shop-made saw vise

Slat-back chairs; ladder-back chairs...

A helping hand for a friend

Boring Chair posts: Lots of ways to get there

carved box for sale: SOLD

Apprenticeship records; 17th century

What the hell are "gimmowes"?

Dedham chest carvings

Brettstuhl videos posted

Jennie Alexander, memories of...

Chair class April 8-13: another open spot

a new log

Dedham chests, pt 3

Putting Slats in my Jennie Alexander chair

Boring the JA chair

Dedham joinery, pt. 2

Dedham joinery, part 1

17th century records re: building materials

the worst log I've had in ages

more Plymouth Colony furniture

Brettstuhl for sale

a look at Plymouth Colony joinery

Chairs in a day or days in a chair

Finished chair & a locked drawer

A carving class at Lost Art Press in July

Brettstuhl progress, a video sample and more

Carpenters and Bowling

One more about Windsor chairs

The best Windsor chair I’ve made in years & years…

It was called “2 planes I don’t use…”

Where did these chairs come from?

37 years later

Spring Lock

another look at period records

Some 17th century inventories

Assembly of the "dressing" box

One more look at mitered mortise & tenon joints

Brettstuhl

Looking forward & back

A return to spoon-carving

Bibliographies

Mortise & tenons & framed panels

Mitered mortise & tenon joints

One way to find out

tools in apprenticeship contracts

Brettstuhls underway

frame & panel, the basic format for joiner's work