Time seems to be flying by as Don and Bob are nearing the finish line on their dressers. Each one of the guys is making a fine dresser out of solid cherry, complete with hand-cut dovetails and hand-planed drawer bottoms, as well as a beautiful mortise-and-tenon back with raised panels. Here they are cutting the […]
Well we finished the model dresser for our dresser course and I am quite pleased on how it turned out. Our dresser course is well underway, actually we are on the fifth day of the class and the students are moving along quite well. (More on this in the next post.) As promised, I have […]
Today I spent a good part of the day doing something that I don’t usually do everyday, carving Hebrew letters! I really enjoy carving and have done some throughout the past 15 years or so, from chip carved signs to hand carved eagles. It seems like I tend to do more letter carving than anything. […]
Tim, our new apprentice and I have been working feverishly on the prototype for our new 4- drawer dresser class. This class will be chocked full of wonderful opportunities to learn many new skills as well as the possibility of improving your dovetail skills! We have cut the dados by hand with a saw and […]
We just finished up another foundational course with folks traveling from all over the USA. David and Paul are brothers, one living in Washington State and the other living in Florida. Here they are hard at work, carefully paring the tenons on their tables! Here is Bill from Colorado, hand-sawing the tapers on the legs […]
From tree to chair in just 6 days! We have just finished up another successful Windsor chair course, with 7 students all completing a fine chair. This is a great course offering many different opportunities to learn multiple skills, from riving wood from the log to shaping it with the drawknife and spokeshave; turning parts […]
We started Monday morning with a log and 7 students, each making a Windsor Chair! This week has been packed with the opportunity to learn many different skills, from riving wood from the log to steam bending, working with the drawknife then off to turning on the lathe. Today was spent learning how to use […]
Just wanted to write and let you all know that we are down here in Houston Texas, demonstrating at THE WOODWORKING SHOW this weekend, April 2nd -3rd. We will have ongoing demos on hand-cutting dovetails as well as using hand planes. We will be demonstrating inlay and shaping chair parts right from the log. We […]
Our students often ask how to finish their projects, be it a rocking chair or table. Often times we have just enough time to complete the piece, and don’t have time to apply a finish. Although applying the finish is not hard it requires a step by step methodic approach which I have outlined here […]
10 students left Saturday evening, tired but satisfied, having finished a fine heirloom Craftsman Style Rocking Chair. It’s always a great experience when after you have worked so long cutting joints and shaping wood it all finally comes together. Getting the shoulders to fit tightly on the rockers is one of the more challenging elements […]