Are you wondering if I’ve gotten into building cars? Well, here I have a story to tell, and believe me, it’s the furthest thing from building a car! About a year and half ago I started a project to help me with my marquetry. I began building a nineteenth- century French tool called a Chevalet […]
We just completed another rocking chair course this past week. We had a great group of guys and everyone had a great time. We had three chairs made out of walnut, and Jerry made his out of cherry. One of the unique points of our school is that we do our best to make sure […]
This weekend I am in Covington Kentucky, right next to Cincinnati Ohio, at a woodworking conference. Now this is not just another woodworking conference, this is truly amazing, drawing people from across the country and even overseas. The breadth of skill and knowledge here at the show is truly outstanding. There are two parts to […]
To all those that took the Foundational Course in August, I am finally putting up pictures! I have enclosed several more below, just click on them and they will enlarge. We had a great class with several students joining us for the last 3 days to complete their Joinery III class. Early in the week […]
As I stated in my last post I have gotten a bit behind on writing in the blog. I was faced with the question on whether I should just write starting from now, or if I should go back and write about all the wonderful classes that we had, even though some of them were […]
It’s been too long since I have written. I have been very busy teaching classes and time is flying by. I have so much to write about, but as I promised you in my last entry, I would write about my trip to the Met. So here you go…. The following day after visiting Silas’s […]
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 […]
Jonathan has been working hard for the past 3 weeks on a beautiful Roubo workbench complete with Benchcrafted Hardware. This bench is a custom order and is certainly the envy of any woodworker. I am wishing that it were mine! Here are a few pictures of Jonathan building it. The main structure of the bench […]
We had a full foundational course which turned out great, it ended right on the July 4th weekend. It is always neat when you have people come from all over the country, from all walks of life and spend 6 days working together! In this class we had an army colonel, a restoration architect, a […]
Just a quick note to let you all know, this weekend we will be having two carving classes. These two classes are distinctly different but will be very informative and interesting indeed. The first of the classes, held this Friday June 24th will be on chip carving. This form of carving differs from most carving […]