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Five Years Without Chris (plus a book recommendation and some updates)
Buy any of Chris’s carpentry essays HERE! Hello Carpentry Way readers—both old friends and new visitors,Amazingly, today marks the fifth anniversary of Chris’s death. It’s hard to believe it’s been so...
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Chris’s Faves: For Your Holiday Wish List and Beyond
Buy Chris’s The Art of Japanese Carpentry Materials HERE! A few of Chris’s favorite books Hi Everyone, This is Ilana, Chris’s widow. Hope you are healthy and faring OK as this year draws to a close...
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Guest Post by Gary Radice: Table Featured in Fine Woodworking
Buy Chris’s The Art of Japanese Carpentry Materials HERE! Hello Everyone, and Happy New Year! This is Ilana, with a special treat for you: a guest post from Gary Radice, long-time reader of this blog,...
View ArticleA new page for all of The Art of Japanese Carpentry Drawing materials!
Hello Everyone, You can now find all of Chris’s PDFs of The Art of Japanese Carpentry Drawing for sale on this page. I hope to add additional material from his carpentry study group projects within...
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Updates are in progress!
Greetings! This is Ilana, Chris’s wife/widow. It’s been a long time since I have posted, because although I think about Chris every day, I haven’t had information that I thought would be relevant to...
View ArticleOne Year Ago: Last Video Footage of Chris
Dear Carpentry Way community (that means you!), First, congratulations on making it through a year of pandemic life! It’s been an incredibly difficult year in most parts of the world, and I’m glad you...
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Julio Alonso Guest Post Part 2: Funahiro’s Forge and more!
Hello Everyone! Ilana here. Below is part 2 of Julio Alonso’s guest post about his trip to Japan. Thank you for your patience!If any of you have ideas for future content or guest posts, please feel...
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Julio Alonso Guest Post: Kezuroukai and a Visit to Funahiro’s Forge
Intro from Ilana: Hello! Here is the guest post I promised from Julio Alonso, a woodworker in Spain and longtime reader of The Carpentry Way blog. When I found out that he had visited Funahiro’s...
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Blast From the Past (3) – 2009 Shrine Lantern Presentation
OK, everyone, I think this is the last of the older videos I will have to post, but it’s a good one! Once again, it’s raw footage and was not filmed with a tripod, so the video quality itself is...
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Blast from the Past (2): Layout and Property
Hello Everyone, I am glad that the first Blast from the Past post was a hit. As promised, here is part 2. Thanks again to Ian Lawford for sending me the footage! For a brief, immersive experience of...
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Blast From the Past: Sharpening
Dear Readers, Greetings – I hope you all had a good summer solstice weekend and Father’s Day weekend. I continue to deeply appreciate your wonderful comments and emails! As the title of this post...
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Riken Dreams (2)
Hello dear readers, I want to start by thanking you again for all of the wonderful messages and support over these last couple of months. I have been so swamped that I haven’t responded individually...
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Hello Everyone, This is a VERY brief note to say that the RTM-3 Riken Milling Machine has arrived! I really want to do a post about its arrival and also make some (clearly completely clueless)...
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Chris Hall Obituary – and what’s next…
Dear Readers, Ilana here again (and from now on, unless there’s a guest post). Thank you so much for all of the wonderful comments on the White to Black Post Script that I did about the last few weeks...
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White to Black (Post Script)
Dear Readers, This is Ilana, Chris’s wife. I hope that you are healthy and faring OK during this very tumultuous time for people around the world due to the COVID-19 outbreak. As Chris requested, I am...
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I acknowledge that the last post in this series may have been a bit bleak for some readers, nevertheless the progress of my illness has accelerated in the past two weeks and now I am in a fairly...
View ArticleWhite to Black (Update 9)
I continue to be astonished by the warmth and generosity of readers here, both in the comments shared and in the emails I continue to receive privately. I thought it was time to bring folks up to...
View ArticleWhite to Black (Update 8)
Eight is an auspicious number in some cultures. I really wish I could say the same was the case for this thread. What follows is, I dare say, not going to cheer anybody up reading this. I do ask...
View ArticleDark Chocolate and Spongecake (35)
As mentioned in the previous post in this thread, I had recorded a couple of hours worth of video, mostly of the assembly of the cabinet. I’ve been chipping away at the editing here and there in the...
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Bandsaw Jim Duggan (II)
This post is a continuation of a post from back in 2012. In that earlier post I mentioned my desire to replace the 110v gear reduction motor on my Hitachi CB75F, which screams like a banshee, with the...
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