The Smithy Is Underway!!!

The foundation pour is complete, in a few days I will tear the forms off and start building up the 8" tall Celtic random rubble walls.

The Craftsman

Anyone who has ever heard of Gustav Stickley and spent any amount of time looking into his furniture has probably heard of The Craftsman. Stickley published the magazine from 1901 to 1916. Some of the early years (pre 1904) focus mainly on ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement, however the later years have everything from simple living, to house designs, to how to make furniture. The best part is - the University of Wisconsin has scans of all 180 issues available online for free right here

A New Focus

I created this blog to be able to post easy updates on what I'm working on in the shop - and then along came GooglePages. Now my website is just as easy to update. I will still post the occasional progress report on this blog, but from now on many of my entries will be links to web resources. I'm continually doing research on old ways of doing things and I keep coming across FREE resources on the net that I really wish I had known about five years ago. In hopes others might be able to find them I will post them here.

-Fergs