“Shaker Side Table,” my latest DVD with Lie-Nielsen Toolworks, is now in stock through the Lost Art Press store.
It is $40 plus domestic shipping. Click here to see it in the store.
The reason this DVD is so expensive is because it is more than four hours long. In it, I show every operation in building this table completely by hand, from tapering the legs to applying the finish. The DVD is, in essence, all the demonstrations I would show students during a week-long class on building this table.
Also, I am not a quiet worker. During every operation I continue to talk, explaining the method I’m using and the pros and cons of alternative methods.
As a result, the DVD is dense with information. And like a growler of imperial IPA, it is not designed to be consumed all in one sitting.
When the DVD came out, I was terrified that viewers would recoil at the length of the program. It is longer than any woodworking DVD I’ve been involved with. To my surprise, reaction has been good. Very good in fact.
My next DVD with Lie-Nielsen, which they are editing now, will be a similar approach to building a boarded chest entirely by hand. So if you like the side table DVD, you’ll probably like the boarded chest video as well.
As always, these DVDs are possible only because of the good people at Lie-Nielsen Toolworks. Left to my own devices, I would never appear in a DVD (or teach a class, or talk to a woodworking club, or attend a show). I look like a lab animal and sound like a barking dog. But Thomas Lie-Nielsen is of the mind that many woodworkers like to learn using video, and he’s right.
— Christopher Schwarz
Drinking an Imperial IPA growler in one sitting is the only way to drink it. Leaving half or less in a growler leaves it to decarbonated. I just crack it and drink out of the container, you wanna keep the precious cold all together. Knit growler cozy anyone?
The only thing I dislike about drinking right from the growler is how your legs get the growler all warm while you are driving.
So the cozy is a great idea!
I solved the warm growler problem by just dumping it into into my hydration pack so I can growl on my bicycle. Why don’t you make a manly growler cover with leftover leather?
This is a great DVD! A must have IMHO! Thanks to Brian from toolerable for pointing it out! The price is steep but worth every pennies! I have seen it twice and I have already learned so much! Well, I am now ready to start building my shaker side table. I will do everything by hand from rough stock to finishing. It is actually my first serious project!
Happy 4th!
Aymeric (from Roubo’s land)
Chris:
I bought the DVD a couple of months ago, and have started my project. I love it, and would recommend it to others.
In the Sketchup model, you show the apron tenons as 3/8″, but for 3/4″ stock, a 1/4″ tenon is generally used. I believe there’s a small hiccup in the Sketchup. Would you agree?
In any case, I love the DVD. You’re quite self effacing when you mess up, and I liked that.
Yeah, the tenons should definitely be 1/4″ thick.
Not sure how that happened. But thanks for the heads up.