This is part of a blog series which reveals the table of contents of upcoming Issue Seven. As always, we’ll be discussing one article per weekday in order to give you a taste of what is come.
Please note that the subscription window which includes Issue Seven is open now until Sep 24th.
A NEW CHANGE: WRAPPING FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS ONLY
From now on, we will be wrapping magazines (brown paper, wax-sealed trade card, and pine shaving) for subscriptions only, not individually purchased copiesof the magazine. This is an effort to simplify things a bit around here. Individual copies can be ordered after the subscriptions ship on September 30th, but if you really do love that wax seal, brown paper, and pine wood shaving, be sure to get a subscription now.
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“I am willing to devote a good many hours to making one wooden bucket. The work is challenging – its own fulfillment and reward. Through the fusion of myself and the wood, an object is born that is useful and beautiful – a joy to make, to see, and to use.” - Drew Langsner
For Issue Seven’s Book Recommendation, we reached out to Sam DeSocio, a homesteader living in upstate New York, for his thoughts on this classic. From time to time, a book is published that invites the reader to not only consider new projects that can be made, but a whole new way of living life. Drew Langsner’s Country Woodcraft exists in that vein – far more than being simply a guided tour of how-to projects, this book extends an open invitation to enter into the world of the country craftsman.
As DeSocio points out, “The Agrarian mind isn't ultimately interested in a linear set of projects, but a web of interconnected activities surrounding the home and the land.” This book is built in concentric circles around that web, beginning at the center: the nature of wood, the uses of tools, and valuable nuggets of wisdom concerning the philosophy of the homestead. Country Woodcraft offers many useful projects for the home (brooms, spoons, a farmhouse table), for the field (rakes, a wheelbarrow, a hauling yoke), and for the shop (a shaving horse, tool handles, a spring-pole lathe). However, its most important offering may well be that it invites its readers to see working with wood as more than just a hobby – as a calling.
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