We have two books going to press this week: “From Sketchbook to Workbench –Christian Becksvoort’s Shop Drawings” and Jarrod Dahl’s “Axis Mundi – A guide to building & using a spring pole lathe.” And hard on their heels will be Matt Bickford’s “Planemaking in Practice – Making Wooden Moulding Planes.”
And then we get brief naps before we’re on to Elia Bizzarri’s book on Samuel Wing, a new artisan geometry book from George Walker and Jim Tolpin, Jeff Miller’s book on design and Albert Kleine’s book on marquetry – and those are just the ones for which we already have all the text and images; there are a couple more expected any day now.
– Fitz
Lost Art Press Blog
Holiday (& Other) Store Hours
An update on store hours through the end of the year – and a note that we are close this Friday.
Get ‘The Essential Woodworker’ at the 2010 Price
Until Christmas Day (Dec. 25, 2026), we’ve reduce the price of Robert’s Wearing’s “The Essential Woodworker” to the price it was when we first published it, in 2010.
My Favorite (but Least Successful) Book: ‘Ingenious Mechanicks’
Chris wishes all his books involved finding and ancient tool or form, foreign travel, experiencing the original object, then building and experimenting with reproductions.
Ulster Folk Museum (Yes, There are Chairs)
On my recent London trip, I spent a few days in Northern Ireland, which included a visit to the lovely Ulster Folk Museum just outside of Belfast.
12 Years of Living with ‘Campaign Furniture’
I think all of Chris’s friends and family have fabulous pieces he built for “Campaign Furniture” (in my house, there’s a folding bookshelf and my reading chair, the Kaare Klint campaign chair). Here’s hoping for another volume!
