Are your planes producing shavings like this?!! Come join us this weekend in Dallas Texas at Woodworld for a Lie-Nielsen Handtool event and learn how you can produce shavings like I was producing just a couple days ago, planing cherry for a table base. First you need a good plane, and in my opinion Lie-Nielsen […]
Well we survived another Craftsman Rocking Chair class! Now there are five more people who understand why quality furniture costs so much! We pushed hard the whole class so we wouldn’t have to leave at midnight on Saturday. I’ve been realizing how much the majority of people have absolutely no idea how much work […]
I have been meaning to write about this class for a while but you know how time seems to slip by without you knowing! We recently finished a wonderful blanket chest course, with 4 students completing their chests. They were made with cherry as the primary wood and curly maple as the panel wood. […]
The Woodworking Shows will be kicking off their season this year starting in Dallas Texas. The doors open this weekend at noon on Friday, October 26th. We will be there showing YOU what you can make in any one of our classes, from dovetails to inlay, setting up handplanes to four-squaring lumber by hand! We will […]
For all of you in or around Austin Texas, you might want to check out a great exhibit at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum. The Exhibit will be running for only 2 more weeks, through October 6. The museum has done […]
We had a great time at the sharpening class and we sure missed you all! I know it was July 4th weekend, making it hard for most people to get away, so I put together this short little video clip to show you what you missed! One fellow brought his Dad’s whole collection of Record […]
SHARPENING CLASS THIS FRIDAY, JULY 5th Recently while I was working in my shop building some furniture, I found myself standing over the sharpening stone, trying to get yet another “perfect edge”. Once the edge was sharp, I thought to myself, “I think one of my favorite things about woodworking is a freshly sharpened tool!” […]
We recently revamped our whole woodworking website and changed it over to our main website www.sustainlife.org. It is our hope that it will be easier to navigate the different classes and there will be more information easily available to you. We hope to update it with more pictures of the different classes as well […]
If you live in Dallas and you are looking for something to do this weekend, stop by Woodworld. Lie-Nielsen will be having a handtool event along with Kevin Drake and Lynn Dowd. We will be there as well, demonstrating everything from dovetails to inlay! I will show you how to do stringing, how […]
This past week we had a fine keepsake box class and cut many dovetails. We used the cutting gauge for marking the depth of the pins and tails so I would like to take this opportunity to iron out any confusion there may be in regards to a cutting gauge versus a marking gauge. Obviously, a marking […]