We had a great foundation class last week, with 13 student for 6 days. It was the first foundation class of the year, and a wonderful way to start the new school year. Here is the last post about the canoe I built last year, it does’t have much written information, but I at least wanted […]
Happy Holidays!! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Here at the school, we have been upgrading the class room and preparing for the classes next year. Thanks in large part to a generous donation from a repeat student and friend, we were able to buy 6 new Lie-Nielsen 4 1/2 smoothing planes and 10 […]
I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving weekend. We have been extremely busy preparing for then hosting our 29th annual fair. We had just over 16,000 people for the weekend and just barely survived! 🙂 Anyway now that I have a little more time, I want to post another step in building the canoe. After […]
We had a great foundation class last week with 14 students. I want to thank all of you who attended and look forward to seeing you again soon. One of the great things about teaching, is seeing the marked improvement by the end of six days in the students confidence and ability. Here is another […]
Happy September to everyone, I thought I would let everyone know we have a foundation class starting the 3rd of October and a Craftsman rocking chair class starting the 10th of October, your own hand made rocker is something you can’t buy!! Then we also have a Blanket chest class starting the 31st of October, a […]
Hello everyone. We have been very busy with custom furniture orders this year, but we’re also looking forward to some down time to finish planning and offering some new classes to the public. In the meantime, I thought I’d take a minute and tell you about a slightly different project I have been working […]
Congratulations to all those who made it through our 12 day Brazos rocking chair class. We started the class with a small pile of simple dimensional lumber and by the time we finished the class last Saturday everyone was rocking in their own chair and thoroughly enjoying their own truly hand made piece of […]
Come join us Friday, April 15th and Saturday, April 16th at Wood World of Texas for the 2016 Dallas Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Show We’ll all have a great time dreaming of the day when we can all have our own set of beautiful Lie-Nielsen hand-tools stored safely in our tool boxes! 🙂 For those who […]
Well, it’s that time of year when the inside of our eyelids aren’t seen very often. We’ve had two weddings here in our community in the last two weeks, and as most of you know the close friends and family will build several pieces of furniture for the engaged couple before they are married. It’s […]
The School of Woodworking recently attended the Mother Earth News Fair held in Belton, TX (Feb 20-21). Over 10,000 people passed through the Bell County Expo Center during the activity-filled weekend that featured over 150 vendors from across the country. The lectures, workshops and demonstration areas were packed full throughout the day, and it quickly […]