With the long weekend coming up, we thought it might be a good idea to reprint this section of The Down to Earth Woodworker – might be a good excuse to spend a little time in your shop, even with all the family visiting! And who knows, maybe while you are taking inventory, you’ll discover […]
I am so linear — it is my training and background as an engineer. Duh!! It finally occurred to me yesterday that I don’t have to do everything in exactly the order that Charles Brock does it on the DVD. It was such a relief finally to realize that I could actually make the gluing […]
I know that many woodworkers, both those new to the craft and even some who have been around for a while, might like to have some subtle instruction to improve their results when using a smoothing plane. Anyone who has visited the Lie Nielsen booth at a woodworking show has likely both heard us describe […]
Terry Chapman blogs about building a Maloof-inspired rocker using Charles Brock’s kit.
You can call me the “Chair” man. Maybe we can go with “Chair Man of the Walnut Board”; or we could shorten it to Chairman of the Board. We already discussed my Windsor Chair with Mike Dunbar last summer, and then last month I did the Chair class with Peter Galbert at Highland. Now I […]
After the exceptional response to yesterday’s reprint of the article on Charlie Kested, we phoned Mr. Kested this morning to find out what he has been working on more recently. He said the Gettysburg Address has been taking up most of his woodworking time in recent months: “I have all the words cut out and […]
For the last decade, Charles Kested has regularly sequestered himself away in his basement workshop, carefully carving, letter by letter, every single line of the Declaration of Independence out of dark walnut wood.