Figured Lumber & the Gentle Art of Furniture Making
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Getting started on a project is to me the most exciting time. I get to play with the design, dig through piles of lumber looking for just the right stock and contemplate all the little choices that need to made along the way. For my current project (which will appear in the April issue of
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Workshop: Even the Blotchy Stuff: Staining & Finising Wood Without Fear
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Jerome Bias, the joiner at Old Salem (in Winston-Salem, N.C.), sent us a press release about a cool two-day finishing/color theory workshop he's organized for February 8th and 9th, 2014, at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA). They still need a few participants for the class to happen, so if youre in the
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Pictures/Words/Thousands
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This weekend, I read that the British Library has uploaded to Flickr Commons images from books and periodicals from the 17th-19th centuries, as part of the Unseen Illustrations project. They are available for use and repurpose in any way. Ive had time only to look at a few pages worth of images; there are 10,200
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