You might think that after 10 months of hard traveling on three continents that I’d be ready for the dirt nap.
But with my final teaching assignment of 2013 now behind me, I am sitting in a hotel in San Marcos, Texas, with a beer (New Belgium’s Ranger) and a smile on my face as I plan a brutal schedule for the next 58 days.
By Dec. 31, I will finish my book “Campaign Furniture.” I have only two more projects to build and about half of the text of the book already written. And I have reached the point with the book where I am vomiting out more words than I am taking in via my research – an important tipping point.
I really don’t give a crap if you buy this book. Or if you like campaign furniture. Or if you care for the interesting book design I’ve been contriving. Like all of the books I’ve written, this is just something I am compelled to do.
Now I’ve got to go to sleep. I have to dream up a wack-nutty filing jig and catch a plane before sunrise that will take me back to my shop.
— Christopher Schwarz
Hmmm…screws not clocked and interesting sales pitch (“I really don’t give a crap if you buy this book”). Maybe you do need a rest.
Are you kidding? I know the Roubo book is a huge deal…. And I will probably get my copy either for Christmas, or shortly thereafter….but this book and the Studley book are two purchases that I will eat ramen for a few weeks if I must to preorder them. I am super interested in campaign furniture for its very simplistic, yet refined appeal…. Sort of like a lot of the arts and crafts style stuff. Yes I know, curves look good in furniture… But nothing says one has a fine taste in furniture like mahogany and brass and QSWO and copper…. Holy crap, think of all the people who will want the studley book…. Woodworkers, tool collectors, free masons, people with a strange fascination with complicated organizing techniques, piano makers, and probably many museums, schools and historians. You guys are truly changing the world of woodworking publishing. I am glad to see it happen.
Print the book and please, take my money.
What’s wrong with those screws? J/K
Would that be a ‘wacky-nutty filing jig’ for your some soon to be smooth-clocked screws?
Will the book’s design include brass corners and a spot of flush-fitted handles?!
Good pick on the ranger… I live in Fort Collins, CO brew Capitol of the world… Just got Roubo, thank you and LAP for all the hardwork, keep on keeping on! Cheers!
“I really don’t give a crap if you buy this book. Or if you like campaign furniture. Or if you care for the interesting book design I’ve been contriving. Like all of the books I’ve written, this is just something I am compelled to do.”
That’s why you do it so well!
That seems like a lot of material to file. Perhaps a flush cut saw or modified hack saw blade (affix a strip of something to one side to clear the set) followed by the file? Just a thought.
Plebes! Do you not recognize the beginning of the Campaign Code in the position of those screws?
Teaching is nothing but a cover for the transcontinental conspiracy that Chris is leading.
No idea what the conspiracy is advocating. Craft beer? Resurgence of apron hooks? Brain tanned boots?
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I really don’t give a crap if you feel compelled to write those books.
Just like any other LAP I red, I just like what I can learn from them.
Fellas, I believe that Chris has expressed his discontent for clocking screws in a previous post.