Hits and Misses

Wizards Metal Renew Polish   is new to me, but I must confess to all the enthusiasm of a convert.  Browsing the web, I came across Mark Harr...

Given that Brexit is a mess with negative economic implications for the United Kingdom, it's a momentary relief to learn that not everyo...

As a collector of American Colonial furniture for over fifty years and a user of hand tools for over thirty, I read Zachary Dillinger’s Wit...

I just discovered this singles ad in my files:  you may have seen it a few years ago, but it bears rereading.  The ad appeared in the Atlant...

James ("Big Jim") E. Leisenring of Allentown, PA, was a tool maker by trade whose expertise at fly fishing led to him becoming kno...

In a time when books often provide less than their titles promise, Christopher Schwarz's revised and expanded  Handplane Essentials (Ci...

Tim Hayward's  Knife:  The Culture, Craft and Cult of the Cook's Knife (Quadrille Publishing, London, 2016) is an appealing book, wi...