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The Peachey Sharpening System

Jeff Peachey doesn't know it yet, but I'm about to advertise his bookbinders sharpening system to woodworkers. You think woodworkers demand a sharp edge? Take a look at what Jeff makes for bookbinders in the way of cutting tools and a sharpening system. We're talking sharp here.

Imagine you're about to cut into an x-years old, mucho expensive and irreplaceable book. You want a cutting tool that will not leave a knick, a gouge, even a hint of it's passing. You want it to cut where you direct, to the depth you direct and only what you intend to cut. That means sharp. 

Hence, the Peachey Sharpening System. Not one to limit himself to bookbinding, Jeff invents bookbinding tools and equipment, teaches classes in bookbinding, is an historian of bookbinding and I guess lives and breathes bookbinding.

Lost Arts Press on Charles Hayward

Chris Schwarz promised something good on Charles Hayward and he came through!

Seems Robert Wearing knew Hayward and kindly wrote out his memories for us.

There is nothing I can say except to recommend that you hop over to The Lost Arts Press and read on.

Till next, Gary

PS: Now if only someone who knew William Fairham was yet alive and could talk about him...

NetworkedBlogs and more stuff

I'm fairly new to Facebook. Twitter is OK, but it gives me the tweets at night. A couple of tylenol and I feel much better.I'm not really a major social media fan. I post when the moment calls to me, when I feel I have something to say, or something that needs saying, or something that only I want to say but I want to see it online. There is always the hope that someone else will want to read it online too, else there really wouldn't be any social media, would there?

NetworkedBlogs is some sort of offshoot of Facebook. I suspect they add some fertilizer, grow lights and water. Presto! New Facebook things. Things can be interesting to play with, so I created a Toolemera Press Facebook page (with nothing there yet) and while doing so, was directed to NetworkedBlogs by Facebook (Facebook really isn't an artificial intelligence, but at times it feels more intelligent than the Senate).

Of course, I had to register with NetworkedBlogs simply because it exists. So now I have some sort of presence there too. Exactly what that presence is, I am not yet sure, but in time I will suss it out. if I can't suss it out, I'll just give it the bent eye (been watching too much Lovejoy lately).

For now, I need the kindness of your collective hearts to try any one of the following steps so I can see what happens at this end. I suspect I'll get an email saying such and such has happened, so and so has clicked a link, the blog or networked blog or facebook page has been shared/liked or whatever is appropriate to that particular entity.

• Click on Follow This Blog on the Toolemera Blog homepage.
• Click on Share at the NetworkedBlogs Toolemera page
• Do neither and be at peace with the world

Truthfully, I'm used to the linear/tangential form of a Typepad blog, the hierarchical form of the average web page and the one page after another page form of a book. Facebook seems more of a cloud at the moment. In time, I am sure I'll get a better sense of what Mark Z. intended when he set out to conquer the known universe.

Till next, Gary

 

NSFW - The Tool Doc Video

Well, I tried to embed this one, but no go. So, hie yourself over to The American Woodworker website and enjoy The Tool Doc as he tours his shop full of tools

http://videos.americanwoodworker.com/video/The-Tool-Doc

till next, Gary

Where Does A Carriagemaker Keep His Tools?

Somewhat akin to the classic question: " What's under a Scotsman's Kilt?" is the query: Where does a carriagemaker keep his tools? I have absolutely no doubt you have been up late at night wondering about this very question. We've seen the tool chests of carpenters, patternmakers even furnituremakers. Was the carriagemaker the owner of a specialized tool chest? And what was inside that storage facility?

The Eaton County Woodworker lucked out and purchased a mostly intact carriagemakers wall-hung tool chest. This is what the exterior looks like. If you want to know what the interior looks like and what tools came along with it, you'll just have to head over to Zach's blog and see for yourself.  

This one looks good enough to reprint, er... recreate.

Till next, Gary