Wow, we’re done! No it didn’t take 5 weeks, it’s just that I have finally recovered enough to write about it! It really was a great 2 weeks with 5 enthusiastic students. Each one completed a dresser with over 75 hand cut dovetails! The drawers were done with half blind dovetails in the front with […]
This past week we have been working quite hard on 5 handmade dressers. This week will be a dovetail extravaganza; as we have all the cases completed, our attention will be turned to the drawers. As the students worked on the cases side, planing, scraping and sanding, I hear the occasional, “Oh no, there is […]
We are well into our annual dresser course with 5 students, each making a beautiful 4-drawer dresser that they will take home at the end of this 2 week class. The week started by hand planing and scraping the insides of the chest sides, then each person hand cut 8 dado joints and then […]
We recently finished up another great foundational course. The 12 students moved along at a nice pace, and they all had a great time. This class set a speed record thanks to Jonathan keeping the coffee pot full! Or it might be the student from Montana that has done multiple Triathlons and 4 Ironman […]
If you’re in or near the Dallas area, join us at Woodworld this Friday or Saturday for the Lie-Nielsen Handtool Event. We will be at the event, giving ongoing demonstrations on handtool joinery, use of hand planes and even some inlay work! Joe Slack will do a mini guitar making seminar at 2:00 on both days of […]
Thanks to a generous donation from Landon Marx, one of our students, we’ve recently added a high quality video camera and a High Definition L.E.D. Screen to our teaching facility! This new setup really makes teaching the fine details a breeze. Details are very important when working with hand tools, and now everyone in the […]
This weekend, January 25th – 27th 2013, we are in Kansas City, Missouri, to demonstrate at one of the Big Ten Woodworking Shows. Many of you have seen our set up at the Texas shows but we are pleased to be able to do the same in Kansas City. If you are anywhere near […]
Some of you may have been wondering what has happened, since I have not written in a while. The truth be told, I tend to get so busy and wrapped up in other projects that my writing just gets pushed to the back burner. But it’s certainly not because there is nothing to write about, […]
Each year, during this season, I make a trip to East Texas to pick up some logs from a sawmill to use for a demonstration at our annual Homestead Fair. The demonstration is called “From Tree to Chair,” and in it, I take one of the big logs (like those in the photos below) and […]
The Texas Furniture Makers’ Show is now open and will run through December 11th. I have not seen the show as of yet, but I got a few pictures sent to me so we could get a sneak preview! I have posted some of those pictures below. Many of you have asked if I was […]