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  Alan Turner and Mario Rodriguez are hosting an open house January 30-31 at Alan’s shop in Philadelphia. See Alan’s site for details. I’ll be there with Christopher [...]

I’d like to have a formal get together while I’m in Williamsburg. I’d like to plan two recreated Franklin meetings: The Junto will be a round table discussion about period [...]

Google Alerts are wonderful things. I name dropped the author of the introduction of the Philadelhia Price Book of 1772 in this SAPFM thread. Lo and behold, the author, Philadelphia Museum of Art [...]

A new year is dawning and with it comes uncertainty. What will the new U.S. administration bring? What will happen with the economy? Are we steering our families along the right course? Believe [...]

What does it take to build furniture entirely by hand? That’s the subject of my 2 “18th c Tools and Techniques” classes in the spring of 2009 and I’m really excited about [...]

I had a great time at Woodworking In America. In the picture above, fellow A&M author Dean Jansa (DEC06) tried out my new chisels while I sketched a picture of the raised panel door that [...]

When Colonial Wiilamsburg made saws for the Anthony Hay Cabinetshop they chose not to file any of them cross cut. The reason, says Master Cabinetmaker Mack Headley, is that there simply is no [...]

I’m thrilled Chris has printed a new copy of Moxon. And it couldn’t have come at a better time. My old copy is in tatters. Take my advice and buy this new version asap. It won’t [...]

I’ve been having a few technical difficulties with my blog. We’re back up and running. For the latest saw news check out:

I really appreciate the overwhelming response I received from my tool offerings. Thank you all so much for your interest and support. It really means a lot to me personally. As I said when I [...]

I’ve been offering my sense of the changing world of reproduction furniture making for a few years now. I won’t repeat it here accept to say yesterday’s reproductions probably [...]

As many of you know, I demonstrate early woodwork at Pennsbury Manor. We were visited a few weeks ago by a reporter from a local newspaper who wanted to see why we do what we do. You can read his [...]