[{"id":262360563775,"handle":"all-books-1","title":"All Books","updated_at":"2024-12-26T13:16:06-05:00","body_html":"","published_at":"2021-11-06T08:19:16-04:00","sort_order":"created-desc","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"type","relation":"equals","condition":"Book"}],"published_scope":"global"},{"id":14049653,"handle":"books","title":"Books","updated_at":"2024-12-26T13:16:06-05:00","body_html":"All books from Lost Art Press are produced entirely in the United States. We use acid-free paper and tough bindings – our books's signatures are sewn and glued for durability whenever physically possible.","published_at":"2013-12-16T11:31:00-05:00","sort_order":"manual","template_suffix":null,"disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"type","relation":"equals","condition":"Book"}],"published_scope":"global"},{"id":166162563135,"handle":"charles-h-hayward-collection","updated_at":"2024-12-26T06:45:10-05:00","published_at":"2020-08-14T11:56:41-04:00","sort_order":"manual","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"Charles H. Hayward Collection","body_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThere is little doubt that Charles H. Hayward (1898-1998) was the most important workshop writer and editor of the 20th century. Unlike any person before (and perhaps after) him, Hayward was a trained cabinetmaker and extraordinary illustrator, not to mention an excellent designer, writer, editor and photographer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAdd to all that the fact that Hayward was, according to Robert Wearing, a “workaholic,” and you have a good picture as to why we spent almost eight years laboring to bring this book to life to honor his work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAs editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Woodworker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e magazine from 1939 to 1967, Hayward oversaw the transformation of the craft from one that was almost entirely hand-tool based to a time where machines were common, inexpensive and had displaced the handplanes, chisels and backsaws of Hayward’s training and youth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis massive project seeks to reprint a small part of the information Hayward published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Woodworker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e during his time as editor in chief. This is information that hasn’t been seen or read in decades. No matter where you are in the craft, from a complete novice to a professional, you will find information here you cannot get anywhere else.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis collection includes all four instructional volumes:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e• Volume I: Tools \u003cbr\u003e• Volume II: Techniques\u003cbr\u003e• Volume III: Joinery\u003cbr\u003e• Volume IV: The Shop \u0026amp; Furniture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn addition to the four green books, we have a fifth volume – \u003cstrong\u003e\"Honest Labour\"\u003c\/strong\u003e – that is a collection of Hayward's best essays on woodworking. \u003c\/span\u003eThese columns during the Hayward years are like nothing we’ve ever read in a woodworking magazine. They are filled with poetry, historical characters and observations on nature. And yet they all speak to our work at the bench, providing us a place and a reason to exist in modern society.\u003c\/p\u003e","image":{"created_at":"2020-08-14T11:58:56-04:00","alt":null,"width":1500,"height":2000,"src":"\/\/lostartpress.com\/cdn\/shop\/collections\/ww-all-5IMG_2568.jpg?v=1606169045"}},{"id":265849733183,"handle":"handwork-essentials","updated_at":"2024-12-26T11:40:21-05:00","published_at":"2022-11-05T11:46:10-04:00","sort_order":"manual","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"Handwork Essentials","body_html":""},{"id":267665539135,"handle":"historical-texts","updated_at":"2024-12-26T11:45:20-05:00","published_at":"2023-10-04T15:24:33-04:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"Historical Texts","body_html":""},{"id":267665145919,"handle":"tools-1","updated_at":"2024-12-26T13:11:05-05:00","published_at":"2023-10-04T15:06:29-04:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"Tools","body_html":""}]
There is little doubt that Charles H. Hayward (1898-1998) was the most important workshop writer and editor of the 20th century. Unlike any person before (and perhaps after) him, Hayward was a trained cabinetmaker and extraordinary illustrator, not to mention an excellent designer, writer, editor and photographer.
Add to all that the fact that Hayward was, according to Robert Wearing, a “workaholic,” and you have a good picture as to why we spent almost eight years laboring to bring this book to life to honor his work.
As editor of The Woodworker magazine from 1939 to 1967, Hayward oversaw the transformation of the craft from one that was almost entirely hand-tool based to a time where machines were common, inexpensive and had displaced the handplanes, chisels and backsaws of Hayward’s training and youth.
This massive project – five books in total – seeks to reprint a small part of the information Hayward published in The Woodworker during his time as editor in chief. This is information that hasn’t been seen or read in decades. No matter where you are in the craft, from a complete novice to a professional, you will find information here you cannot get anywhere else.
During the last eight years, we have culled, organized, scanned, edited and re-edited these articles to create these hardbound volumes. This is not simply a quick reprint of old magazines. We have reset all of the type. We have scanned and cleaned every image (there are more than 2,000 drawings and photos). The entire project took hundreds of hours and a dozen people all over the country.
You can download a complete (and searchable) list of the articles in Volumes 1-4 here.
Like all Lost Art Press books, “The Woodworker: The Charles Hayward Years: Tools” is produced and printed entirely in the United States. It is printed on smooth acid-free #60 paper and joined with a tough binding that is sewn, affixed with fiber tape and then glued. The pages are covered in dense hardbound covers that are wrapped with cotton cloth.
If you are interested in handwork, you will not find a more complete collection of the 20th-century knowledge and wisdom on the subject.
