We are planning a packed week of Windsor Chair making and traditional Windsor Chair construction technique this October! Peter Galbert will be on hand for a week-long hands-on class in building a Child’s Windsor Balloon Back Chair. This handsome Windsor design has a graceful curved bow back and crisply shaped, shield-style seat. Generous leg splay […]
Time Magazine a few weeks ago had a very good article on “recommendation engines”. In case you are not familiar with them, it is the bit of software which tracks what you look at on a Web site, and then recommends other things you might like based on what you look at. It is that […]
Ok people, this is a woodworking crossword puzzle. Personally I do not like crosswords, but I know some people just eat them up. Here are some hints because I think you may need them. Heck, I made it up a couple of months ago and when it got cold, I couldn’t get them all. Get […]
After some very successful wild blueberry picking, we headed over to the 2nd day of the Lie-Nielsen open house this afternoon. We spent some time talking to Kevin Drake of Glen-Drake Toolworks. We sell his Tite-Mark Marking Gauge, and are quite impressed with how easy it is to use. The rest of his products were […]
We wrapped up the dealer training part of our Lie Nielsen visit today with a morning trip to the workbench shop facility, which is offsite from the rest of the Lie-Nielsen factory and offices. Lie-Nielsen workbenches match the rest of the products they build, in that they are extremely high in quality, and very nice […]
Our second day at Lie-Nielsen Toolworks began with an in-depth presentation of the full line-up of Lie-Nielsen handplanes by Deneb Puchalski, who really knows his stuff. He reviewed plane setup, tool cleanup and maintenance, and gave a great overview for which planes to start out with if you are just getting going in woodworking. A […]
Today was the first day of our 4-day visit to the Lie-Nielsen Toolworks factory in Warren, Maine. We started with a hands-on sharpening demonstration and tutorial. Our instructor Deneb presented a simple method for basic blade sharpening and then patiently helped us through the steps. The method is shown in this video (hopefully embedded below!), […]