For This I Get Paid? Part 5
Friday, my fellow students and I got into a very sticky situation. That hide glue that Phil Lowe had us start cooking on Monday finally came into play. But first, we were directed to glue up our [...]
For This I Get Paid? Part 4
Today, Phil Lowe set up a jig to waste out the front side of the bridle joint that the leg sleeves over in our demilune tables, and a niggling thought crept in to my head. Did I really keep the [...]
For This I Get Paid? Part 3
As I mentioned in my entry from yesterday, my first order of business this morning (after stirring in the skin at the top of the glue pot — blech) was to band saw away the waste on the [...]
For This I Get Paid? Part 2
To start off the second day in Phil Lowe’s “Building a Demilune Table” class, we rub jointed 34 pieces with 15Ã?° angles on each end into chevrons (shown above). I thought I [...]
For This I Get Paid? Part 1
Monday morning, I left my house at 5:30 a.m. to drive to Franklin, Ind., to the Marc Adams School of Woodworking. I had to be there by 8 a.m., and while it’s only an hour-and-a-half drive [...]
Visit Woodworkers Resource for Preview Interviews of Woodworking in America
If you’re not familiar with WoodworkersResource.com and its founder, Craig Stevens, well, it’s worth taking the time to visit his site. Craig started Woodworkers Resource in 2005 [...]
Impatience and Frustration – Bad Bedfellows Indeed
“How poor are they that have not patience!What wound did ever heal but by degrees?Thou know’st we work by wit, and not by witchcraft;And wit depends on dilatory time.” (Othello, [...]
High Heels and Pounce Bags
Last Sunday, in The New York Times Magazine cover story, Michael Sokolove reported that in the world of sports, “Girls are more likely suffer chronic knee pain as well as shinsplints and [...]
Update on Woodworking in America
As you may have read in an earlier post, Popular Woodworking and our sister publication, Woodworking Magazine, are sponsoring the first-ever weekend conference devoted to hand tools and learning [...]
Glen-Drake Founder to Visit Popular Woodworking
Kevin Drake, the founder and owner of Glen-Drake Toolworks (glen-drake.com), is visiting the Cincinnati-based Popular Woodworking shop for a free seminar on May 8 from 6-9 p.m. Kevin will be [...]
Completely Floored
It’s a good thing my kitchen is capacious. In addition to the usual kitchen accoutrements and furniture, at the moment, it also contains a church pew (it usually resides in the front hall), [...]
Finishing Seminar with Bob Flexner
Popular Woodworking contributing editor and finishing guru Bob Flexner is leading a two-day finishing seminar June 21 & 22 at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking in Franklin, Ind. A few [...]
