Category: Open Wire

Megan is teaching a class on building a Shaker silverware tray here at the storefront this weekend, so y’all are stuck with me and Wally the cat for Open Wire. 

We are happy to answer your woodworking questions here on Open Wire. Simply type your question into the comment box below. Post it. We will read it and answer as best we can. Know that Wally has only one answer to every query: “Treats, in my mouth.”

Sometimes there is a lag between the asking of the question and the typing of the answer. But I will attempt to answer all questions. Sometimes we answer them after comments have been closed – it just depends on our schedule for the day.

As always, comments will close about 5 p.m.

— Christopher Schwarz

Update: Comments are now closed. And I remembered today that next weekend, I’m teaching a class on Sat.-Sun. So I’m afraid the next Open Wire will be on March 16…unless I can cajole one of our authors into doing it next Saturday.

Chris is in Florida through next week to teach two classes, and is then taking a few well-earned days of vacation with his wife, Lucy May. (I expect he’ll pop in from time to time to answer, or comment after hours on chair questions and the like.) In the meantime, I’ll be here editing his first six chapters of “The American Peasant,” and today and next Saturday, answering your woodworking questions.

So post ’em in the comments section below, and I shall do my best.

Comments close at around 5 p.m. … though possibly earlier if a personal commitment gets rescheduled for the afternoon. So don’t leave it until late to pose your question!

– Fitz

We have the Lie-Nielsen folks in this weekend for the first Hand Tool Event in at least three years. So we are not able to answer questions online today.

If you are in the area, stop by the storefront and a whole host of people will be happy to answer your woodworking questions. 

Megan and I will return next Saturday for Open Wire (I’ll be teaching in Florida next Saturday, but will answer questions in the evening.)

— Christopher Schwarz

Comments are now closed. A reminder that Chris will answer the as-yet unanswered ones later tonight or tomorrow.

It’s time for Open Wire, our almost-every-Saturday woodworking question and answer session! Next week, however, Open Wire will be in-person only at the Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event here in our shop. So if you have questions and can’t make it to next weekend’s shindig, ask now in the comments section below.

Note: Brevity is appreciated.

Note 2: Chris has an afternoon engagement, so he’ll circle back to later questions after comments close to answer any I’ve missed…or that I’ve willfully skipped (i.e. most chair questions, or queries about the amount of chromium in a 5/8″ rounding plane plane).

Comments are now closed.

It has been a crazy chair week here in the shop…so no different than usual (except we had eight people working in here instead of the usual two). So today, we’re happy to take it a little easy and answer questions at the computer.

You know the drill: Post your woodworking question in the comments, and we’ll do our best to answer. Comments will close at around 5 p.m. (and there may be a lag between your asking and our answering).

– Fitz