Day two of the embellishments class at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking with Jeff Headley and Steve Hamilton is now in the books. Today was a virtual potpourri of topics. I started out by applying more cross-band veneer to my piece. These were strips in between the semi-circular corner elements. This process differed a [...]
Well, the day finally arrived and after a 9.5 hour drive from New York yesterday, today I started my stint of classes at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking. I had mentioned in an earlier post that I am doing a weekend class in embellishments leading up to a week long class building the Virginia/Carolina [...]
Another year has passed and once again it’s time for Woodworkers Safety Week. The idea for this week dedicated to woodworking safety came from Marc Spagnuolo of The Wood Whisperer fame. Each year during this week, many of us who blog about woodworking take time out to share stories and methods highlighting safe practices in [...]
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I’ve mentioned before that I’m basically a self-taught woodworker. Lot’s of reading, watching videos and making mistakes have gone into my “training” in the craft. Well, that’s all about to change for the better… I had been thinking about the possibility of taking a class or two in some facet of woodworking. For years, I’ve [...]
You may be wondering just when does the sculpting of this Sculpted Rocking Chair actually start? The answer is that is starts now! Well, maybe after a quick commercial interruption…you’ll recall that in the last post I had glued the two perfectly good front legs together with a piece of two inch stock in between [...]
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