Thinking through the Cio chair. For those of you who have read many of these essays, you know that I love questions. And my fascination with them seems to be increasing almost daily. One of
These two blades actually have the same clearance angle even though the one on the left looks like it would have more. The heel on the right hand blade will sit lower on the frog
Nano Hone makes my favorite flat stones and guide. But I am questioning what I use them for, not whether they are essential to my sharpening kit. In my prior essay, Abrasive Behavior, I introduced
Illustration of CBN abrasive grit at high magnification, showing the angular, fractured geometry of the cutting particles. When I first started using random orbit sanders, I remember finding something on a package of sanding discs
Mid 1990s Arrow Back Settee, Ebonized with Iron – by Brian Boggs In 1982, not long after I began making chairs in Berea, Kentucky, my next door neighbor James Cooper told me there was somebody
This 2016 limited anniversary edition of my shaving horse was produced in our shop, commemorating shared anniversaries with Lie-Nielsen and Fine Woodworking. This one is coming with me to Handworks. I designed it in the
While teaching a new guy named Clay to use my systems on the bandsaw, he began to get variations in the cut shapes. It was clear to me immediately what had happened, but not to
Melanie says that if I were a trout, I’d have been dead a long time ago. She’s probably right. During a talk last week, I was trying to explain something about the economics of design,
Brian with his Tango table, a nine-foot-long, 22-inch-wide entry table. Why make it in the first place? What must it do? How should it be made? What will it cost? These are familiar questions, but
Brian walks through this evolution in a video below. I’ve always asked myself why things are made the way they are. Chairs in particular.That seems to be where my making brain tends to roam the
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