This last weekend I attended a class at the Port Townsend School of Woodworking. The class was with Darrell Peart and the class was his Greene and Greene Details I class. It was a fun class, with lot of good information. Darrell started the class with a great slideshow of Greene and Greene and many [...]
I spent this last weekend in the lovely town of Port Townsend,Wa. It’s one of my wife’s and my favorite places to go, for a weekend getaway. Now that they have a woodworking school there, we (me) have even more of a reason to go there. This was the first class I had taken at [...]
When I started my blog 1 year ago, I wanted to post something at least once a week. Well, I fell a little short on that goal, but not too far off. I’m happy that I have continued with the blog. So many blogs fall to the wayside, only after a short period of existence. [...]
Earlier last week my wife and I took a short vacation over to Port Ludlow, Wa. Not too far from Port Ludlow is Port Townsend, which is another place we love to visit. Port Townsend has great food and shopping. They also have a nice Jazz Festival every July. For the woodworkers out there, there [...]
How do you become good at something? Practice, practice, practice. This holds true for woodworking, as it does for: sports, games, cooking (Bar-B-Q!), etc. I don’t do my own Bar-B-Q, and I don’t mean grilling in the backyard. There are some things I just leave to the professionals. This last Saturday I had a fun [...]
My last post really went into a lot of detail on what cuts I used on which joints, to demonstrate where the different classes cuts can be used. I won’t bore you with that kind of detail in this post. Instead I just give a general overview of what we did for our final project [...]
In this post, I’m going to go into some detail on how we built our sawbenchs. I’m going to explain the types of cuts (1st, 2nd, and 3rd-class) we used. This should give you and idea of when to use the different types of cuts and why. The next 2 days of the class were [...]
It was my intention to post updates each evening, but that just didn’t happen. Several of the evenings were spent doing other activities. The first night Chris went out to dinner with a group of us. The second night I was just too tired. The night Gary Rogowski had a Bar-B-Q potluck at the shop. [...]
The week of July 14 I will be attending a class at the Northwest Woodworking Studio in Portland, Or. I’ll be attending the Handsawing, Handsaws and Saw benches with Christopher Schwarz. This is the first time I’ve taken a week long woodworking class (woodworking vacation if you will). The other classes I’ve taken have been [...]
