Long-time carpenter and Popular Woodworking Magazine contributor Carl Bilderback sent me this image a few days back, and said I should come up with a clever caption about it being a baby picture of housewright Ron Herman. But I seem to be fresh out of clever – so I’m leaving it in your hands. Submit your caption of 50 or fewer words in the comments section by midnight on Sunday (Oct. 23). The writer of whichever caption I find to be the most amusing will win one copy each of Ron’s “Sharpen Your Handsaws” and “The Joinery Challenge” videos.
Yes, it’s awfully subjective – but this might help: Monty Python? Hilarious. Anything with Will Ferrell? Couldn’t tell you, because I refuse to watch it. “Strindberg & Helium?” Funniest. Cartoon. Ever. (And Ser Schwarz is pretty funny too…at least when he’s channeling Monty Python.)
Welcome to the Woodwrights Shop.
Don’t laugh, someday I’ll be making videos about this.
I said I wanted a seesaw, not a ripsaw.
Little Olaf Koorkijldminarluuf would exact his revenge on the moose that bit his sister.
They told me I could become anyone.
So I became Tom Law.
A little known, and very sad fact is that young Ron was sold into slavery at age 2 by his parents so they could afford cable TV. His masters were a band of traveling minstrel saw sharpeners who immediately pressed Ron into service sharpening hundreds of saws a day.
At an early age Ron could divine which tooth was off.
This kind of work is going to make an old man out of me.
Once I can change my own diaper, I’m NEVER touching another hand tool.
“I’ve sharpened tens of saws in my lifetime…”
(A modern take, vis-a-vis the E*Trade Baby)
“My buddy, Ron, said if I taught him how to invest on-line then he’d show me how to sharpen a saw… Ouch! Hey, isn’t there an app for this?”
(Cue banjo music) “Welcome to Season 1-Episode 1 of “This Old Saw”
Dad, is this a Gramercy vise, where’s my Acme?
“Hmm, very nice. Filed rip and sticky sharp too. Oops, that was the jelly on my fingers.”
Dad says I can cut my teeth on this! Chris Schwarz
I forgot, Monty Python…
WHO USED THIS TO CUT SPAM?
I’ve sharpend thousands of these and this is the first time the handle did that! Not my fault!
Saws! there a dime a dozen, but VICES will come and go as I grow!
“When you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
“Oh, I see, solitary. Just a man and his thoughts. And his file. And a his vise. Nobody knows…”
You think Dad is going to be mad when he sees his saw,
wait till he sees what is in my pants!!