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Bottoms, Skirts and Pizza You Cannot See

Christopher Schwarz — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:04:11 +0000

At some point during a woodworking class, students, teachers and bystanders become a sort of ersatz family. It is not by design. It is despite my best efforts. Today at The Woodwright’s School, students dressed the shells of their tool chests and added the tongue-and-groove bottom boards (yay for cut nails). After that brief nailing, … Read more »

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Roy Underhill Videos Now Available to Order

Megan Fitzpatrick — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:14:56 +0000

On behalf of Roy Underhill and the entire Popular Woodworking team, I am delighted to announce that we now have four seasons of Roy Underhill’s “The Woodwright’s Shop” DVDs available to order at ShopWoodworking.com (and we’ll soon have the streaming video site live): Season One; Season Two; Season Three; and Season 20 (which Roy says … Read more »

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Roy Underhill’s Woodshop of Old Curiosities

Megan Fitzpatrick — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:01:19 +0000

Roy Underhill’s The Woodwright’s School is filled to the rafters with vintage hand tools, bacon-powered machinery, solid workbenches, piles of wood and more (you can read about the school in Christopher’s Schwarz’s August 2009 “Great Woodshops” article). And just about everywhere you look, there are also curiosities. While I was at the school to assist … Read more »

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I Saw it. She Saw it. We all Saw it.

Christopher Schwarz — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:21:39 +0000

As instructors at woodworking classes, we spend most of our time sampling bon-bons and braiding each others hair while the students work away the last bits of their cartilage between their poor, overtaxed joints. Today was not so fun for the instructors. While the students merrily dovetailed away their carcasses at The Woodwright’s School, the … Read more »

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Build a Tool Chest at ‘The Woodwright’s School’

Christopher Schwarz — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:31:18 +0000

Monday’s “Anarchist’s Tool Chest” class “The Woodwright’s School” was the first of five days of dovetailing. By the end of the week, everyone will be able to cut dovetails in their sleep. And we’ll all be so tired that we might have to. Be sure to visit The Woodwright’s School online. Click here to purchase … Read more »

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And at Age 11, I Hosted my Own Woodworking Show

Christopher Schwarz — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:01:34 +0000

Roy Underhill looks over the rim of his beer at the City Tap – the bar behind his woodworking school – and asks me the following left-field-what-are-you-doing-inside-my-skull question. “You built your first bench at 11,” he asks, “what were you building there?” In addition to my crappy crafty projects and pseudo-furniture projects, that workbench is … Read more »

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