Archive for 2012
Woodworking in America – Centuries of Experience
When it comes time to choose instructors for our Woodworking in America conferences, I feel like a kid set loose in the candy store. We don’t use demographic studies or market research, instead we sit down as a group and each of us presents a list of the woodworkers we really want to meet, shake Continue reading»
Weekly Wood News, May 22, 2012: The Most Comfortable Folding Chair
- Matthew Teague’s Secrets for Perfect Pegged Joints
- The Ideal Portable Chair
- Should You Trust Woodworking ‘Experts?’
- Free: Your Guide to Router Collets
- Give Your Hardware That Authentic Aged Look
Tool Abuse…But I’m Not (Terribly) Sorry
This morning as I walked out my front door, my hair got caught in some low-hanging branches from the cherry tree that shades the front porch. That was enough to finally spur me into action and get out the pruning shears. Problem was, the branches that needed cutting back were too thick for my pruning Continue reading»
Video: Sharpen the Tricky V-chisel
I spent Saturday watching and photographing carver Mary May teach a class on ball-and-claw feet at the Woodwright’s School in Pittsboro, N.C. Mary, a traditionally trained professional carver, lives and works outside Charleston, S.C., and teaches carving classes all over the country – you can see her at Woodworking in America this year. And if Continue reading»
My Part at Woodworking in America
Now that I’m no longer on the staff of Woodworking in America, I get to do three things: 1) Actually attend some of the really great seminars from people like chairmaker Curtis Buchanan, carver Mary May, Yeung Chan and David Marks. 2) Present my own seminars on topics that are a bit on the nutty Continue reading»
And the Moto-Saw Winner is…
First, thanks to all of you who entered – I had a hard time deciding on a winner. In the end, I guess I’ll have to chalk up the winning entry to my sometimes-sophomoric sense of humor. And without further ado: Congratulations to Ronald_T, for his winning limerick: I once tried to chisel a mortise, Continue reading»
Don’t Believe Everything You Read
For centuries, woodworking skills and techniques were passed down directly from master to student. If you wanted to learn, you spent time with someone who had done it for a long time, followed an example that you saw first hand, and tried it yourself with your teacher there to correct your mistakes. When we learn Continue reading»
