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JOEL Joel's Blog

Drafting

09/27/2023

My Leroy Lettering Machine When I was a newly minted college graduate, I worked in Black & Decker's industrial construction division, where we designed and produced high-end power tools. The factory doesn't exist anymore and the group that designed the tools has long either wandered off or retired. Everybody communicated using drawings. Every engineer had a drafting table, mine was left-handed,...more..
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Realistic Portrature. A Visit to the Salmagundi Club

09/13/2023

l-r Tanner Ortney "Self-Portrait at 25" 2023 oil, Emily Pastor "She contains multitudes" 2023 oil, Mary Durgunoglu-Brown "Lee Price" 2023 oil After months preparing for the Handworks show, returning back last week, and immediately getting a cold, I finally felt well enough and relaxed enough to venture out for fun. My destination: the Salmagundi Club a private arts club on Fifth Avenue and...more..
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BREN Video Roundup

Sliding T Bevel

08/23/2023

Like most people, we spend lots of time (way too much time) surfing the web, entranced by various videos. In Video Roundup, we offer some videos from all over the world that we found especially intriguing. We often get questions about how to use a Sliding T Bevel, so here you go. Sliding T-bevel How2...more..
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Circles and Dominoes

03/10/2023

Like most people, we spend lots of time (way too much time) surfing the web, entranced by various videos. In Video Roundup, we offer some videos from all over the world that we found especially intriguing. OK! This roundup shares 6 different ways of cutting circles in wood, and while you might know a few of them it can be helpful to learn a variety of ways in order to choose the right...more..
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The Morakniv Chisel Knife

12/08/2022

Like most people, we spend lots of time (way too much time) surfing the web, entranced by various videos. In Video Roundup, we offer some videos from all over the world that we found especially intriguing. This video motivated us to start carrying the Morakniv Chisel Knife . Who doesn't want to cut leather and fire hose, then hang it from your jacket? We were struck by how indoorsy the video...more..
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BEN The Build-It Blog

A Turned Milking Stool

03/30/2023 By Joe Samalin

Variations on a theme. Mine is on the far right. I will just assume it is your favorite of the four. For 5 years I lived in Bloomington, Indiana, quite a change for this born-and-raised New Yorker. It was while living there I was first introduced to woodturning. Just before moving back to New York I bought myself a lathe, a really nice medium-sized benchtop JET that I had saved up for. Of...more..
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Pre-Summer Inspirations

05/26/2022 By Joe Samalin

From the article "Artists’ Frames in Pâte Coulante" by Peter Mallo Summertime tends to slow down for us here at Tools for Working Wood, giving us that rare chance to take a quick deep breath and look around for a moment. And to break out the big fans. It gets hot here in Brooklyn. And so as part of taking a breath, we wanted to share a bit of what is inspiring us at the moment, in the...more..
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Carving Japanese Chashaku (tea scoop)

03/03/2022

One of the perks of living in a place like New York City is access to a very wide range of people and experiences. This last weekend I was able to enjoy just such an experience - a four hour class on carving traditional Japanese bamboo matcha (powdered green tea) scoops, or chashaku. The class was led by a master of the Japanese tea ceremony, Nagano Yoshitsugu , and that is who carves...more..
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WORK The Work Magazine Reprint Project

WORK - An Illustrated Journal of Practice and Theory

01/21/2016

Tweet #TfwwWorkBlog!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs'); Greetings Workateers! Our fourth and final volume has come to a close and so has the Work Magazine...more..
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WORK No. 200 - Published January 14 1893

01/14/2016

Tweet #TfwwWorkBlog!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs'); The editions of Work mag we have here in the shop often have the ads removed but the last couple...more..
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WORK No. 199 - Published January 7th 1893 NEW

01/07/2016

Tweet #TfwwWorkBlog!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs'); ARTICLES FOUND IN THIS ISSUE: STENCILS FOR WALL DECORATION • THE ART OF...more..
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