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We get a lot of emails from people wanting to get into woodworking and wondering where to start. Whether you are a soft-handed starry-eyed novice, or a gnarled and jaded old woodchuck, here are some of our favorite books to guide you in your woodworking pursuits.
Josh Salsbury (a.k.a. “The Beef”) shows you how to patch a Eucalyptus slab.
Nick recently attended a 6-day Windsor chair workshop at Boston’s charismatic and venerated North Bennett Street School. Read his first hand account of riding a spokeshave to delicious curves in Boston.
Lee guides us through the course she tought on working with reclaimed timbers at California State University Long Beach. Students learned about sustainable building practices and got to “have a conversation” desiging with an organic living material.
Here’s Episode 2 of Off Cuts! In it we continue work on the redwood slab coffee table that was previously flattened by Nick in Episode One.
Nick recently wrote a Holiday Gift Guide on AOL. It’s full of classic books and hand crafted objects. The man’s got taste.
Nick gets on the wire with the Fine Woodworking Magazine Podcast and waxes lyrical about his dream woodshop.
Nick recently contributed to the Fine Wood Working article, ‘Discover the Beauty of Big Slabs‘. Check it out.
Our tasting guide/guru Thomas takes us on a tasting tour of Montgomery Distillery’s delicious “Early Release Straight Rye Whiskey”.
Here’s the very first episode of Matt Micucci’s web video series, ‘Off Cuts’! This series is an exploration of unromanticised videos of what life is like at the Offerman Woodshop. In this episode Nick shows us how to flatten a slab for a coffee table.
Read about Matty’s first experiences with the L.A.based social enterprise Would-Works. Created by Connor Johnson, Would Works gives men and women in need an opportunity to undertake woodworking tasks to achieve financial goals.
How did you get into woodworking? We get this question all the time. Writer’s Bone dug into it further with us. If you would like to know what got us going, read the full article at Writer’s Bone.