Some quick administrative stuff. To try to meet demand for classes on building a stick chair, I’ve scheduled a class in building a Welsh-style comb-back chair at our Covington storefront for Nov. 18-22. Registration for the class will open at noon (Eastern) on June 24.
You can register via this link on June 24.
The classes are expensive, I know. The price includes all materials, plus continental breakfast and lunch every day. (We are serious about the food.) The class size is small – six students with one instructor and an assistant. We go to great lengths to make the week special and work hard so you go home with a finished (completely finished) chair.
The other bit of news here is that we have to scale back “Open Wire” a bit for the rest of the year. Megan and I are traveling a lot in the coming months, and it’s difficult to juggle our Open Wire when one of us is out of town.
Here are the Open Wire dates for the rest of 2024:
July 20
August 10
September 14
October 19
November 16
December 14
We will post reminders before each Open Wire date. Those are the Saturdays when both Megan and I will be in the office and ready to answer your woodworking questions. Megan and I enjoy Open Wire, but we hate to leave the other in the lurch when the other is traveling or teaching.
— Christopher Schwarz
I applaud reducing Open Wire to a more human schedule. Once a week doesn’t seem like a lot until you try to do something time-consuming once a week and you realize it’s a lot. And on Saturday, no less! While it’s certainly true that you (LAP) do work that benefits us (the readers), you don’t actually work for us. And on the user side, scarcity breeds appreciation.
As for teaching more classes, if anyone wants to come out to San Francisco to spend a week in Our Fair City sharing woodworking knowledge (and being fairly compensated) just let me know and I’ll figure out the details.
Hear, hear! I’m in Sonoma County, and would LOVE for Chris or Fitz to journey out this way. Let’s make this happen!
I’m in Palo Alto and I approve this message…
Just a note – in the link to your chair class, you have a link that goes to the flush cut saw and it just goes to a general Lee Valley page. Can you share the product? I too dislike the flush cut saws I have purchased, and had a hope you might have found the grail here.
Thanks – I fixed the link. The saw it now links to is this one: https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/shop/tools/hand-tools/saws/japanese/101323-japanese-kugihiki-saw?item=60T0622
Talk about a total ‘no win’ scenario: the chair class I desperately want to take: right in the middle of my busy Xmas artisan market season. Sigh.
(very grateful you folks have added another session: I know how much work these are for you: please know that there are many of us who are delighted with the opportunity)
Chair class. vs revenue…
(looks around for a coin to toss: preferably a double headed one 🙂