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Joel Moskowitz

Pres., Tools For Working Wood
Brooklyn, NY, USA

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24 Comments

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128 Blog Posts

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"Probably not - but we did just add Blackwing Pencils!!"

on: Tools & Craft #118: I Think Better on Paper - My Return to Fountain Pens
"Bob, Try reading some of his stuff. "News from Nowhere" has some good bits but overall it's a slog. The Sagas he wrote might have been acceptable in the 19th century but to modern readers it's a long slog. There are lots of 19th century authors who were wonderful, still read, and worth reading. Morris isn't one of them."

on: Tools & Craft #54: The English Arts & Crafts Movement
"As long as the jointer has a long bed you will be pretty accurate. That's pretty much standard practice. The boards sit for awhile to acclimate, get milled to the max width the machines can handle, let to sit a bit just to be sure. and then glued up with lots of care to align them correctly (on the top edge). If the boards are stable you should be good, otherwise my long hand planes come out."

on: Tools & Craft #94: Why We Need Rough Material, Not Smooth
"I don't know what Amazon does"

on: Tools & Craft #108: How This Toolmaker is Getting Screwed by a New Online Scam
"Yes - those are gas jets - not very bright."

on: Tools & Craft #79: A Mortise Bench and a Newfound Resource
"Festool is all hook and loop.If you have trouble with hook and loop it might be your vac pressure is too high or you are pressing too much. - I've never had an issue and this is the first I have heard of something like this from anyone."

on: Tools & Craft #84: How to Keep Your Sanders a'Sanding Smoothly
"Sean, THere are a few companies makingtop notch stuff. Audi, Herman Miller, and I your FRench furniture brand. But most people I know, even people who could get better stuff, shop at big boxes because that's really all they know. For movable furniture - look at campagin style- I think it's tine has come again. "

on: Tools & Craft #57: "Cheap - The High Cost of Discount Culture"
"Dear Abhijit, Thank you for your remarks,Joel"

on: Tools & Craft #6: The Six Things You Need to Start Making Furniture
"Joshua, I very much hope you are correctjoel"

on: Tools & Craft #43: Observations from an Ex-Power-Tool-Designer
"Sasha, This is the first web page ever made: www.antiquetools.com (basically unchanged since 1996)"

on: Tools & Craft #46: What Should a Designer/Builder Wear When Dealing with Clients?
"Nathan, All my blogs for Core77 are taken from older material that I have written on my blog. Core77 thought it worthwhile to bring the material to a larger audience. At the same time Core77 has real editors and I work with Rain Noe, who has been stellar in making me sound much less illiterate."

on: Tools & Craft #60: Do You Really Need an Adjustable Mouth on a Handplane?
"I would .say that a secondary bevel is almost ever a good idea. With a hollow grind most of the time you are honing just the cutting edge and the rear edge of the hollow. There is no need for a secondary bevel. With a flat grind the secondary bevel grows with each sharpening and the tendency is to make a teriary bevel etc. and your cutting geometry changes. If the sharpie helps you that's great. with no secondary bevel to worry about I would expect to be removing material at the cutting edge, and I can tell by the changes in scratch marks and a wire edge if I am proceeding uniformly."

on: Tools & Craft #77: In the Belly of the Bevel, or How to Ineffectively Sharpen Anything