For the next 10 days my blog posts will be erratic and fueled by barbecue, beer and fatigue. If you e-mail me during the next fortnight, my response is liable to be brief, odd or not forthcoming.
Why? I drive to North Carolina tomorrow to tape two episodes of “The Woodwright’s Shop” with Roy Underhill, then teach a five-day class on building “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” at The Woodwright’s School and then teach a two-day class at the Atlanta Woodcraft on building the essential marking and measuring tools.
Then I will take a long nap. Actually, that nap thing is a lie. When I get back from my Southern tour I’ll be unloading almost 6,000 pounds of “Make a Joint Stool from a Tree” books and then packing up all the pre-publication orders we’ve received (thank you, kind reader) and taking them to the post office.
Then a nap? No. Then I have to finish this Campaign Secretary that has to be completed by March 15 for Popular Woodworking Magazine.
So all this is my way of saying: If you try to reach me during the next month and I don’t respond, it’s not because your smell offends me.
Thanks in advance for your understanding.
— Christopher Schwarz
Good luck, Chris, and looking forward to seeing you teach in Chicagoland!
Pace yourself Chris.
I bet they love you at that PO.
They do love us!
We have everything barcoded and we unload right into the mailstream. All they have to do is run the boxes under a scanner.
It’s like being nice to the lunch ladies in high school. We know where our bread is buttered.
Better pace yourself old timer….
This is the slow pace for me! I used to do all this *and* edit a magazine.
Yes, but give credit where it’s due…you do still put up with a lot of questions from me re the mag (which you always kindly and quickly answer)
Enjoy.
When can we expect the Matt Bickford book?
Jim Marsh
Jim,
Matt’s book is being designed now. It’s the next thing in the pipeline.
Any hints about what you and Roy will be entertaining us with on those shows? I’m looking forward to them whatever they’re about. You have to be the hardest working person I’ve ever seen. Just reading about all the stuff you’re doing tires me out. You certainly have made woodworking a lot more fun and entertaining, and that’s saying a lot given how much fun it is already. Thanks. I hope you get to take your nap sooner than later. Maybe Roy will let you curl up on a bench in the back.
Jim,
I think we are discussing tool chest construction and the Moxon vise. Old hat for the people here. New old hat for the PBS viewers.
That’s cool. I just bought a walnut blank for making the hand screws for mine day before yesterday. I’ll be working on it this weekend.
I was wondering when you were going to get around to doing more shows with Roy. Good luck and looking forward to seeing them.
“fueled by barbecue, beer and fatigue.” Hmm, maybe we’ll be the ones offended by your smell. 😉
Sounds like grand fun, look forward to getting the book, seeing the Woodwright shows and how that campaign secretary comes together.
He never said he wouldn’t be offended by our smell. He simply said that wouldn’t be the reason he doesn’t respond.
Chris, Would you be interested in publishing something on traditional timber framing techniques. Furniture is fine, but it’s still too much the individual as artist model. I prefer to work with strength in numbers and the raising dynamic. “…the tools that would teach men their own use would be beyond price…” Socrates Good work, JML
Don’t hurt Roy – he is a National Treasure.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think it strange to see Roy in a room with wall-to-wall carpet?
I hope you enjoy Allen & Sons BBQ — one of my favorite haunts from school days long ago. Anyway, How do you get all those students through ALL those dovetails?
PS. Building the ATC is the most fun I have had in the shop in years. And now I get to fill it!
Yet another opportunity to use your “pig sticker” mortice chisels…
Are these new episodes for next season?