This past week I made a quick trip to the east coast for some family gatherings. For quite some time I have wanted to visit a furniture maker up there, so with a quick search, I found that his shop was only 2 hours and 20 minutes from where I was. For a Texan this […]
I took the foundational class on a little field trip to go split a red oak log. I am working on making some carved boxes and maybe a chest made in the 17th century style, right from the log. This project is actually worthy of another post, so I will keep you updated on the […]
We had a full and exciting foundational course this past week, with folks from all over the country. Students traveled from California, Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee, with the rest from the Lone Star State! Here are a couple of pictures of the students during the week. For those that are not familiar with our Foundational […]
As the 3 students from the Brazos rocker class finished up their chairs on Saturday evening, there are many words that describe the feeling: fulfillment, satisfaction, camaraderie, and exhaustion! Every one of the students completed their chairs and they all turned out beautiful. It took a total of 12 class days with some of the […]
Well the first week has come and gone for the students in the Brazos Rocker course. As some of you may know, this chair is a complex rocking chair with many hand cut mortise and tenons and lots of shaping done with the spokeshave. This past week was spent cutting many mortises by hand, as […]
Welcome everybody! It’s great to be able to get the new blog up and running. There is so much to write about and catch you up on, but I won’t do it all in one post. I would like to briefly mention that we have several new classes up for 2011. I will be writing […]