The reason I’m not answering your e-mails or phone messages this week is that I’m teaching the “Hammer in Hand” class at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking.
We’re building three projects this week – a shooting board/bench hook, a Moxon dovetailing vise and the Schoolbox from “The Joiner and Cabinet Maker” book. And with the pace that this class is on, we might have to add a fourth project.
With more than a day and a half left, most of the students are working on the moulding for the piece.
That’s not supposed to happen until tomorrow.
So I think we’ll carve some garden gnomes tomorrow. Can’t have too many garden gnomes.
— Christopher Schwarz
The plastic glue bottle in the glue pot looks all kinds of wrong.
A bottle of PVA in there would look weirder.
Free the Garden Gnomes!
Here’s what happens when you get overrun by the garden gnomes
Seriously, I didn’t think you indulged in carving
Looks like some fine work being done. I hope we get to see those finished boxes at weeks end.
mmmm! Ol’ brown “Death-stick”.I can smell it now…. I see you resolved your bad day with the petrified walnut. Pare-ing and swearing to get’er done.
I am SOOOOOOO glad that you got so many shots of me…NOT…haha. But seriously, I am having the time of my life. I am so sad tomorrow is the end. Many many great memories were made this week. Oh, and I did some woodworking too. Thanks Chris!