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This past April, we had to good fortune of visiting with the folks at Popular Woodworking in Cincinnati, OH. We got a bunch of footage at the Pop. WW’ing headquarters (including a quick interview with Glen Huey) as well as a tour of Chris Schwarz’s home. We capped the day off with an ...
Nicole is on a business trip this week and that can only mean one thing: I’m watching woodworking DVD’s every night! haha! Well last night I fell asleep watching one of my favorites: “Coarse, Medium, Fine” by “The Schwarz”. Prior to dozing off, the weirdest t...
Chris Schwarz is the former editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine and one of the geniuses behind Woodworking in America. He is considered by most to be the authority on Workbenches and is responsible for the popularization of the Roubo design. His latest book, The Anarchists Toolchest is taking th...
Chris’s methodology. The Deluxe version of the book comes with a CD that contains bonuses such as the complete and searchable text of the book, 3D models of the two benches in the book, plus a bonus workbench plan and slideshows of the bench-construction process. I would go so far as to say...
...ost every other design out there ? so it’s easy to build ? yet it excels at all of the workholding tasks in a woodshop. In this DVD, Christopher Schwarz shows you how to build the Roubo workbench using only hand tools (though you can use power tools if you wish). Schwarz, the author of Workben...
...l be announced live on the next Wood Talk Online. Email answers to: WoodTalkOnline@acanthus.com Here are the trivia questions: 1. What city was Chris Schwarz in where he fainted during a woodworking demonstration? 2. In what city was Chris Schwarz when he had an expensive infill plane stolen right ...
...from Southern California to Quebec Canada shows hard maple ranging in price from $4-$10 a board foot! There are cheaper options for some, such as the Schwarz-approved Southern Yellow Pine. This may be available at every corner drug store back East, but for the rest of the country, our standard bui...
...nd forms, you’ll see that the prevalence of whole number ratios is undeniable. He had many examples to support his position. Good stuff! Chris Schwarz: Chris did a number of sessions throughout the conference but I could only make it to two of them. The first was on one of my favorite hand ...
...ant to cut out and put on your shop wall so you never forget this stuff. And of course there are some great offerings from other notables, like Chris Schwarz, Chuck Bender, Bob Flexner, Roy Underhill, Glen Huey, and Kari Hultman. Now there’s one other aspect that we can’t ignore. The...
...stain in a project using a different species of wood altogether. He also signed up for a hand planing class at Marc Adams School being taught by Chris Schwarz & Thomas Lie-Nielsen. Around the Web: Malcom Tibbits – Tahoe Turner- Amazing segmented turnings. Check out his instructional DVD...
...ndering around the Festool booth. Norm is signing autographs. And one of the MANY highlights of my week was finally meeting and chatting with Chris Schwarz and Glen Huey. I follow Chris’s Blog and his articles in Popular Woodworking and Ive seen almost all of Glen’s videos. So I was...
Topics Kaleo Kala’s visit to Marc’s shop, “The Schwarz”, woodworking classes, Lie Nielsen’s backorder, new tools from Festool and Powermatic, Forstner bits without spurs, and milling lumber with only a planer and a router table. ...