Look at that moron. He’s obviously holding a Moxon-style saw (see plate 4, the unlabeled saw above the whetting block) and he is using a four-fingered grip. I mean, do you need to see another scrap of evidence that “the Schwarcz” is just a self-promoting pretender?
Just a journalist? Ha, he’s barely a boy.
Look, I’m willing to ignore the boy’s poor fashion choices. It was 1975, and the open-collared shirt and ox-blood cords are not his fault. But his fly is undone! It’s foreshadowing that he obviously wants to violate each and every woodworker on the planet with his misinformation on saws, planes and workbenches.
Speaking of workbenches, Master Schwarz, what the heck is up with that thing in the photo? Clearly you are willing to preach your French three-dimensional clamping surface crap while using a bench that clearly violates every single one of the principles in your two workbench books.
Hypocrite.
And look at the tool chest the little pretender has “built.” More like the “Entropist’s Tool Chest” if you ask me. Bet that thing fell apart in about five minutes. Hard to believe anyone has actually built the “chest from his “book” – everyone knows chests are built from poplar or oak, not pine.
And one more thing: That’s a plainishing hammer on the benchtop, not a joiner’s hammer. And I assume the Scotch tape on the bench was used in substitute for real joinery.
<drops the mic>
— Charlie Roberts (my real name’s nunya business)
LOL, looks like you’ve been reading internet forums again, with all the so called “experts”.
But don’t we all pray to ” Derek the king of forum crap ” lol
Steve J Steinbeck Sent from my iPhone 4S
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I still have the “workbench” my grandfather built for me when I was about 6. Wobbly, totally un-flat, metal clamp on vice, generally an exercise in frustration. I let my own boys use it to discourage them from becoming a woodworker for a living like their dad. Noted, the toolbox ends are flipped.
They aren’t flipped. They are bookmatched.
This really hits close to home. I think I attempted the same fashion statement in the 70’s, yeah, haircut too! My skills at the bench however were not as good as yours. Scary! Let’s hope there’s no evidence of my checkered past that will get posted on these hallowed walls.
Did Jeff write this? I’ll kick his ass, just say the word!
No. I write this crap when I need relief from real heavy editing, writing and designing.
Well, you should try a few homebrews for that :>)
Are… are those… wire nails?!
Yes!!!! String him up on those wire nails. Insert them under his Disco fingertipssssssss
The bright shiny nails! They hurts us! Gollum…*blech* Gollum!
I will swear my computer was hacked if ever questioned but, I still have my tool set and bench from when I was 6 and still use the bench regularly! I have to sit at it now because it is so low but it is still in use 40+ years later [ thanks Dad}.To give the benefit of the doubt he probably gained his { Mr S } now good judgement as a result of his experience, witch is obtained as a result of poor judgement. { Peter Follansbee }
That’s funny, and I learned a new word. In his defense, however, all that can be explained by the fact that he had not yet been diagnosed as extremely near sighted.
Sigh, another kid forced to wear “toughskins”.
We have an active support group you know.
I think we had the same faux wood paneling in our house. To bad we can’t see the color of the room’s shag carpet. I am betting the “door” was a beaded curtain.
Dude,
That paneling was in our garage shop – that’s how swank we were at 2019 Wedgewood.
And the carpet (not in the garage) was dark green shag, baby.
If Schwarz is an idiot, what does that make the person that spelled his name three different ways in the same post?
Where can one get the plans for this fabulous “book-matched, wire-nailed tool tote? Better still, when are you going to teach two day classes one it ???
Hilarious!
I am Chris Schwarz, and So Can You.
Idiot for thinking that Illuminati sheeeit at the top of the page could slip under the radar for long. I feel like I’m being stared at by an angry Hindu god.
It’s actually an Angry Dingbat God.
isn’t that strange that English people call a clamp a cramp??? whats wrong with those people??? so I wonder what the call it when they get a leg cramp.
They would call it a leg vise.
Under any other circumstances, one might assume the missing front tooth was due to the age of said Msr. Schwarz. Perhaps having combined wire nails, inexperience, and nearsightedness might have contributed to this…I smell a conspiracy theory in the making!