C.H. Becksvoort - Cool Stuff

COOL STUFF

Here are a few items that didn't make it into the catalog. Some may come and go, depending on what is available, and what sells. Please include $5. for shipping each item. Maine residents add 5.5% sales tax. Send to;

C. H. Becksvoort
P O Box 12,
New Gloucester, ME 04260

Shaker Inspiration
Lost Art Press, 2018

Full color, hard cover, printed in USA. Three sections:I) the Basics includes materials, skills, solid wood furniture construction, craftsmanship, and design; II) the Business includes getting started , setting up shop, business considerations, and marketing; III) Inspiration includes my designs (with 13 measured drawings), Shaker reproductions includes 7 pieces (with measured drawings), and 16 classic Shaker pieces.

All in all, a brief summery of my 5 decades of woodworking. $43.

Making Through Dovetails & Making a Drawer.
Learn how to layout, saw and chop dovetails the way I've been making them for years. "Tails first for through dovetails, and half blind for drawer construction. All it takes is these two DVDs and practice. Sold as a set. 39 minutes 72 minutes.
EllKat Productions. $45.
Digital downloads are available at www.TheLessonStore.com

Build a Chisel Box.
A one day project featuring through dovetails and a sliding lid, for chisels or other small items. 73 Minutes . EllKat Productions. $30.
Digital downloads are available at www.TheLessonStore.com

Build a Shaker Bench.
Make this sturdy Shaker bench with through mortise and tenon joints and four dovetails braces. One of my most popular workshops and a great weekend hand tool project. 111 minutes. EllKat Productions. $30.
Digital downloads are available at www.TheLessonStore.com

A Craftsman's Guide to Understanding Wood

A Craftsman's Guide to Understanding Wood is a visual companion to the book. It covers basic wood technology, how water reacts with wood, predicting wood movement, and shows specific examples of how to work with solid wood to construct furniture that survives seasonal changes. 85 minutes, DVD. Lie-Nielsen Toolworks Productions, 2013. $25

The Shaker Legacy: Perspectives on an Enduring Furniture Style
By Christian Becksvoort. The Taunton Press, 1998

Shaker furniture has influenced countless designers, myself included. This new book looks also at the Shaker contributions in the fields of music, art, religion, civil rights, and modern conveniences. An entire chapter deals with how their designs and workmanship were a direct outgrowth of their religious beliefs. The majority of the book is devoted to over 140 cases, tables and chairs, desks, built-ins, beds, clocks, and smaller items. Examples of the full spectrum of early, classic and Victorian pieces are explored, some never before photographed. Autographed, of course.
"If your library has room for only one book on the Shakers and their furniture, this is it." -Shaker Workshops.
$ 40. (hardcover)

The Shaker Legacy is out of print, and Taunton is not reprinting it. I have the last 300 hardcover copies, new, and signed. Available from me, at the address above.

From my days when I was better with a camera than a chisel. The Hesper & Luther Little, abandoned in Wiscasset, ME, for years fixtures along route 1. The photo was shot in 1972 and posterized; reduced to pure black & white and one shade of gray. 11 x 14.
Mounted on poster board and signed, $85.
Mounted, matted, signed and framed, $375.

Limited edition of a small poster from the preface of my first book, In Harmony with Wood, now out of print. Letterpress printed by the Redwagon Press, 1998. Only 12 copies left. 7 1/2 x 12 1/2.
Signed. $60.

C. H. Becksvoort T-shirt. This features one of my favorite
Lie-Nielsen block planes.
White on black shirt. L, or XL. $20.

Angel Gabriel cards. Perhaps you can't afford the weather vane shown in New Work & Prototypes. This is one alternative. Pack of 10 cards, 4 1/4 x 5 1/2" with envelopes. Peace on Earth inside.
$15.

Chopping Dovetails. Greeting card (blank inside) on heavy, off-white stock, 4-1/4" x 6".
Woodcut by Caldecott Award-winning artist, Mary Azarian.
Pack of 10 cards, with envelopes, $15.