An Experiment for Paid Subscribers

I don’t want to get too gushy here, but you – the paid subscribers to this substack – have made a significant difference to our lives here at Lost Art Press. Your subscriptions helped us hire Kale, my apprentice, and have allowed us to push our research and development forward faster.

In exchange, I’ve tried to make this substack (and our two other substacks) as useful and compelling as possible. I’ve been trying to think of additional ways to thank y’all. I have some things in mind, but today I wanted to give you a look at two new tools we are working on for the fourth quarter of 2024.

Because we are in the midst of development, I don’t have answers to a lot of questions. In fact, I have the same questions.

First up is an Exeter-pattern hammer, which rose up out of the ashes of our claw-hammer project. This hammer is based off British examples from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The head weighs 9.6 ounces and is mounted to an 11”-long hickory handle that really seals the deal f…