Both of these nicks were caused by splinters this past weekend. Splinters are par for the course when working with wood. But when you work in a shop where your...
This is the second year for Woodworker’s Safety Week. Started last year by Wood Whisperer Marc Spagnulo, Woodworker’s Safety Week is one week dedicated to instruction, tips, and [...]
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is hosting another open house at Mount Pleasant in Fairmount Park Philadelphia Sunday, April 26. I believe the event is free and parking will be...
Of course yesterday’s blog post was an April Fool’s joke. Work continues on my chair. And recent cuts while demonstrating aside, I almost never cut myself. I think the worst...
As you all know, I’m building a Chippendale chair in a series of articles for Popular Woodworking Magazine and I’ve been having some troubles with it. In the first article,...
I cut myself twice during demos at Kelly Mehler’s (both times on the same finger). I’m fairly clumsy, but I don’t cut myself often in my shop. I didn’t [...]
Day 3 at Kelly Mehler’s school of woodworking started with a rousing discussion of Journeymans’ wages, servitude, and slavery. Period furniture was not “build to print”. [...]
We looked at 18th c joinery at Kelly’s shop for day 2 for our examination of 18th c cabinetmaking tools and techniques. We started the day with an off the...
Kelly Mehler graciously invited me to teach a class at his school. We put our heads together and came up with a basic 18th c hand skills class. Kelly’s well...
A fellow at the Philadelphia Furniture Workshop Open House video taped my demo and posted it to YouTube.com. It’s here I thought it was nice of him to ask permission...
I got a kick out of Mona Oster’s letter to the editor entitled “Saw Safety Ignored” (April PW #175). Thanks for the chuckle, Mona. Mona referenced this shot: Mona reminds...
“If Chippendale had power tools, he would have used them” is an addage I hear often. I guess folks need to defend their use of power tools and this makes...
