Next month I’m conducting a two-day seminar on building a Dutch tool chest for the Alabama Woodworkers Guild in Maylene, Ala. During Feb. 14-15, I’ll build a Dutch tool chest and demonstrate all the hand-tool techniques so you can make one for yourself.
And if you are lucky, you might just win the tool chest and not have to make one. All the attendees to the two-day seminar get a raffle ticket to win the chest. But more importantly, they get to eat some really amazing food while some sasquatch shows them how to cut dovetails, dados and mouldings by hand.
The Alabama Woodworkers Guild is a special organization in a special place. Located in an historic old schoolhouse, the club could not ask for a more beautiful place to build stuff. Last year I did a two-day seminar on building a six-board tool chest there and had a fantastic time. The food (and I am crazy for good food) is crazy good.
If you live in the deep South, it’s totally worth the drive. I’ll also bring along some Lost Art Press books, postcards and who knows what else?
Registration for one day of the class is $100. Both days is $175. To register, contact Chris Mazur at 205-979-1593 or chrism1928@earthlink.net. Or Preston Lawly at 205-982-2828 or eventman@bellsouth.net.
— Christopher Schwarz
Chris, is a Dutch Tool Chest DVD still on the horizon?
When is the Lost Art Press World Headquarters and Woodworking School going to open in SW Ohio or NKY. We need some local classes.
I hope to never run a woodworking school I’m afraid. That is way more work that publishing or building furniture.
Mmm…blackeyed peas and hominy?
Quick question about the dutch chest. What’s the “trick” to laying out the hinges and lid so that when open, the lid will stop about 10 degrees past vertical like yours does?
. set the hinge in place put a straight edge on the back of hinge upright with the bottom of the straight edge about 1″ (or what ever your over hang is on your lid) below the pivot point open till you find the sweet spot then mark the holes for the hinge on the case.
That’s way simpler than some of the way’s I’ve tried, But, wouldn’t I be marking the hinge holes on the underside of the lid? I don’t really have any wiggle room with respect to where the hinge meets the back. The hinge sits in the hinge mortise and one strap meets the bottom of the lid and the other strap goes flat down the back (the hinge locations are pretty well fixed other than left/right). So I can slide the lid (well, a straight strip of wood in this case) up and down with the hinge open to locate the “sweet spot” – then mark the hole locations for the lid that match that.
well in your case it’s all about the lid. I used a different kind of hinge. it’s the same as I said about the lid hanging down past the pivot point. the lid hitting the back of the case is what holds the lid 5 to10 past 90. you may need to plane some off the underside of the lid edge.
Chris: What honing stones do you carry in the tool chest? Thanks
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Hehe, nice sneak peek of some medieval-ish stool 🙂
Chris, you dropped your email. I wanted to talk to you about the lack of LAP books at LOC!
Gorgeous chest, and I’d love to take the workshop. Any idea if/which tools to bring?
I’m afraid it’s not a hands-on class. It’s a two-day demo where I build the chest. With animal-related jokes.
It would be a lot cooler if this was a hands-on class.