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.)
OK GRANDPA,I AM GOING TO SHOW YOU ONE MORE TIME HOW YOU SHARPEN YOUR SAWS, YOU NEED TO GET A HANDLE ON THIS
I know my eyes don’t work Dad, but are you sure this is my normal piano??
Is this the best you can do? Where are all those Disstons and such you are always bragging about to your wood buddies?
Very funny, Pa. Why don’t YOU get a handle on THIS?!
Oh drat, I’ll never grow up to be a WIA rock star if I don’t quit breaking the handles when sharpening these saws.
What? Oh, when you said “now for something completely different” I was thinking “Okay! You know, if that handle were angled more…”
But you meant different as in sharpening a rip saw today. Sorry!
I just can’t get a handle on sharpening!
Get a handle on it Grandpa Ron, I thought you said you were going to tote me to the see-saw to sharpen my skills, not teach me skills at sharpening a saw and fixing a tote.
“Well a guess there is always journalism”, thought young Christopher…
I mean really…it’s a SAW, not a hammer!
One more and it’s the WEEK END!!!
A young Roy Underhill borrows Chris Schwarz’s saw.
Think how young he is, think how he might not know love of Roubo….
Here we see a young Ron Herman cutting some teeth before he could even cut his own.
I’m learning to play the saw,
But there seems to be a flaw,
My fingers are getting raw.
I’d like to play some Handel,
but I think I broke my handle.
So upon reflection,
I’m taking another direction,
Maybe I’ll learn to draw.