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Ancient Crafts in the Modern World: Book Review
Cræft: An Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts, by Alexander Langlands, Norton, 2017. $26.95 Amazon link You may have noticed that there’s a handicrafts revival going on. Every month there seems to be a new craft market … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Langlands, book review, craft, Cræft, forgotten crafts, handicrafts, john seymour
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Building A Frame-and-Panel Interior Door
If I had a backup career in woodworking, it would be making doors and windows for historic homes. It’s not that I especially enjoy making such objects more than others. (I’ve never even made a window sash.) It’s that it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Build-Alongs, Home Improvement, Kids, Wood and Woodwork
Tagged brace and bit, cat, dog, door, drawbore, frame and panel, frame and panel door, handplane, handtools, hang a door, hang interior door, interior door, mortise, mortise and tenon, plow plane, tenon, veritas small plow plane
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How to Sell Your Handmade Goods at a Craft Market, part 3: Vendor Etiquette
In the last two posts, I offered some practical suggestions for creating an effective display table and interacting with customers at craft markets. But there’s more to being a good vendor than just making your stuff look good and having … Continue reading
Posted in Market, Wood and Woodwork
Tagged craft fair, craft market, etiquette, manners, Market, selling, vendor
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How to Sell Your Handmade Goods at a Craft Market, part 2: Interacting with People
A lot of crafty, creative types are pretty introverted. While it might be relatively easy for you as an introverted, creative person to set up a very attractive display table, the prospect of standing behind that table and talking to … Continue reading
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Tagged attitude, craft fair, craft market, craft show, demo, friendship, market etiquitte, relationships, selling, shop, shopping, spiel
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How to Sell Your Handmade Goods at a Craft Market, part 1: The Display
It took me a few years to learn to make wooden spoons and spatulas that people actually wanted to buy. But when I started trying to sell my work at local craft markets, I learned something important: selling things is … Continue reading
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Tagged business cards, craft market, craft show, craft table, display table, market table, signage, signs
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Book Review: Cræft by Alexander Langlands
Cræft: An Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts by Alexander Langlands, Norton, 2017. $26.95 You may have noticed that there’s a handicrafts revival going on. Every month there seems to be a new craft market to shop … Continue reading
Posted in books, Reviews, Wood and Woodwork, Woodworking Literature
Tagged adventure, Alexander Langlands, book, books, craft, craft book, Cræft, reading
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Build A Simple, Wooden Storage Crate in an Hour
One of the tests of a competent woodworker is the ability to make a simple, sturdy box to order. Just this afternoon, my wife was cleaning and reorganizing, and she asked me to make her a crates to help her … Continue reading
Posted in Build-Alongs, storage, Wood and Woodwork
Tagged box, build a crate, crate, make a crate, nails, organization, organize, storage, wood crate, wooden crate
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The Hardest Part of Learning to Sharpen
The other day, I was teaching a friend to sharpen his plane iron, and it got me thinking about sharpening. Of all the skills I have learned while working wood, sharpening has been the most life-changing. It started with chisels … Continue reading
Posted in sharpening, skills, teaching, Wood and Woodwork
Tagged Chris Schwarz, edge, sharp, sharpen, sharpening
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Rebuilding Trunnions on a 14″ Steel City Band Saw
Not long ago, a friend offered to give me his old bandsaw, which he was replacing with a newer, bigger model. The only catch: the old bandsaw had two broken parts, and because the manufacturer has gone out of business, … Continue reading
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The Parable of the Homemade Wine
Once there was a man who had a garden and an orchard. He grew many kinds of fruits–plums, figs, blueberries, strawberries, and grapes. His fruits grew so well that he needed something to do with them, so he began to … Continue reading
