If you want to build a tool chest or a workbench in 2015 with the assistance of a sasquatch (me), 2015 could be the year. I have just about finished lining up all my classes for next year. While it might seem early to be discussing this, I know that many busy students need to plan their lives a year in advance.
I’ll be discussing these classes in more detail in the coming months. But here is a broad overview.
January: It looks like I’ll be returning to Highland Hardware at the end of the month to teach a weekend class, perhaps on building a Dutch tool chest.
February and March: I return to Australia for a tour of the country – very exciting. Here is the preliminary schedule:
Feb. 23-27. Build a Roubo Workbench at the Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking.
Feb. 28. Hand Tool Event at the Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking.
March 2-4. Dutch Tool Chest class at the Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking
March 6-8. Class at Robert Howard’s School in Brisbane. Topic to be announced.
March 11-13. Dutch Chest class at the Henry Eckert School in Adelaide.
April: I’ll be teaching at the Guild of Oregon Woodworkers April 9-12, topic to be announced.
May: I return to the Woodworkers Club in Rockville, Md., for a week-long class May 4-8. The topic is still up for discussion.
May 15-17. Handworks in Amana, Iowa. Do not miss it.
June 12-19: I return to Dictum (yay!) in Germany to teach classes on building a traditional sawbench, mallet and marking gauge.
June 22-28: I get the honor of teaching at Phil Lowe’s Furniture Institute of Massachusetts. We’ll be building the Anarchist’s Tool Chest for one class and I think we’ll be doing a two-day seminar on tackling the tricky bits for campaign chests – the full-blind dovetails and hardware, in particular.
July: I return to England to teach two classes for the New English Workshop. At this point, one class will be a workbench, the other will be a chest. We’re still working out the details, but both classes will be brand new ones. One of them is a project I’ve been mulling over for years now.
Aug. 10-14. We build Roubo workbenches at the Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking.
Sept. 28-Oct. 2. I’ll be teaching a tool chest class at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking. Just like the classes for the New English Workshop, I can’t say much until we finalize some details. But this will be a class that is very important to me.
There are a couple more classes that I’ll add to the schedule. But the schedule above really is the physical limit for me if I want to build furniture and edit books as well. I do hope you can make it out to a class next year.
— Christopher Schwarz
Oh wow your oz tour is very timely for me. I have been contemplating building roubo for a month or two now and came to the conclusion I would have to do it next year. So it is perfect timing for me that you are comming down to Melbourne to do just that build. I have been a little daunted by the roubo build, but now I’m very excited. I just to convince the trouble and strife it is a good idea and figure out how to get it back to Tas.
Unfortunately the Dictum visit is just before my exams for my ‘carpentry’ apprenticeship. Ah, well… BTW How could I go about contacting Peter Lanz? having found his profile on Dictum I’ve got more questions than before because he seems to have done some similar work to what I’d like to do, and I’m not sure how to get into that area.
Call the Munich store and ask to speak with him. He is in charge of the workshop there.
Glad to here your coming back to Oz. How many classes can we sign up for before people start throwing the word “stalker” around?
I would be surprised if there is a February 29 in the year 2015, even in Australia, but I could be wrong.
Fixed. Thanks!
Chris
On behalf of all of us who enjoyed you being at Rosewood studio in spring 2013, Did we not buy enough beer???
Sob…. Whine….
Please come back to Canada in 2015. Wood works in Perth ON in the fall of 2014 is not enough!
Thx
Jonathan Crone
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I was hoping for a Perth date in ’15 as well, actually.
hi chris….any chance at kelly’s in berea?????????
dale
I haven’t heard from Kelly yet. He’s still on sabbatical I suppose.
Do you know where in England you’ll be holding the classes yet?
Thanks,
James
I believe I’ll be back here in Warwickshire. Details to come.
In Atlanta, prior to the chest class, is there any chance you’ll do the one day measuring/marking tools class you’ve done previously?
What about a 6-board chest instead of the dutchy?
Not my call, I’m afraid.
Any idea when the class will be announced and open for registration? I keep missing my opportunities when you’re in town
Call Highland. They are in charge of the registration.
If that (multi-drawered…) chest in the picture at the top of this post is any indication of what you’re thinking about for England/Marc Adams, then I am very intrigued… would appreciate more info as soon as possible, that I may arrange my schedule.
Looks like a busy year for you! Hope your family time stays as full. (Seriously – Having spent half of my children’s lives deployed overseas, I know how important it is)
I’m afraid not. The tool chest we’ll be making at MASW is much simpler. But the chest is just one component of the course.
And another dream accomplishment to add to my list. Being good enough at something to be invited to do it around the world. Don’t take that for granted!
Dang it. I was hoping you would have a Dutch Tool Chest class closer to Texas. Any chance of a class within about 400 miles of Dallas?
There is plenty of beer within walking distance of the Oregon Guild’s building. Just an observation.
Will you do the Lie-Nielsen open house?
I’ve read/studied Walker and Tolpin’s By Hand And Eye for some time now. I can actually ‘see’ the proportions in the diagram at the top of the post. So that is what epiphany feels like.
Didn’t mean to hijack the thread. Carry on now.
Hey Man, you’re only visiting one tiny section of “This wide brown land” (poem Quote) how about you travel 4000kms west and visit Perth and the south west …… I’m sure one of the wood schools here would ‘love’ to host one of your courses. Cheers Mike, in Perth.
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I can only teach where I’m invited to teach. No interest from the Perth schools I’m afraid.
I like the plans up above. I was thinking a “Dutch” angled top over that chest. And then the ‘extra’ Dutch bottom below it. That would be cool. Might have to get my Autocad on and see if I can make that happen. Of course it would be nice to build it too!