Book - "Mortise and Tenon" Magazine Issue #10 - Edited by Joshua A. Klein

Media scholar John M. Culkin has famously stated, “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” This idea, that the tools we choose to use are extensions of our selves, runs throughout this whole issue. Issue Ten is a milestone for M&T, and we couldn’t be more proud to bring you this collection of articles.

Let us not forget that it is through discipline and practice in a craft tradition that we establish a give-and-take relationship with our tools. Just as we can modify them to meet our creative ends, they in turn frame and shape the way we see the world.

Table of Contents

“An Unexpected Gift: Discovering Calm in a Modern Apprenticeship” – Will Wheeler

“An Exercise in Precision & Randomness: Replicating David Pye’s Fluting Engine” – Jeff Miller

“Savageness” – John Ruskin

“Ready Hands: A Letter to My Sons” – Joshua A. Klein

“A Whisper from the Past: The Lessons Tools Teach Us” – George Walker

“Examination of a William & Mary Gateleg Table (1715-1740)”

“The Rhythm of Weaving Cattail Rush Seats” – Michael Updegraff

“Walking with Wood/Se Promener avec Le Bois” – Joseph Brihiez

“The Past for the Future: Reflections on 50 Years as a Furniture Conservator” – W. Patrick Edwards

“Books for Students of Furniture” – Al Breed

144 pages. Printed on premium, heavy (#70), uncoated paper for a classic look and tactile feel. Weighs 1 lb. Printed in the United States of America. Ad-free and independently published.

Published March 2021