Learn the Craft

Wood, tools, and the
stories behind making.

How the tools actually work. How to choose a board and read its grain. How the joints go together, and why they hold. Plus the makers who worked all of it out first, one at a time. Free to read, no account, no catch.

The Long Grain

The makers who came before

Thirty-eight of them, from a seventeenth-century carver to a chairmaker still teaching this year. What each one understood about wood, and what is still worth stealing.

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At the bench

Tools, wood and technique

The practical side: what each tool is for, how to pick timber that will not fight you, and the handful of joints worth learning first.

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