Workshop at the Barn – Boulle Marquetry
Boullework is the method of composing either pictorial or filigree marquetry employing metal sheet, usually brass, pewter or copper, with veneers of tortoiseshell. Tortoiseshell is now a proscribed...
View ArticleThis Year’s Schedule
As far as I know these are my teaching/hosting commitments for this year. March 8/9 and 15/16 – For the next two weekends I will be demonstrating at my pal David Blanchard’s shop on Main Street in...
View ArticleA Stoopid Simple (and cheep!) Toothing Plane, part 1
While prepping for my upcoming visit to the Kansas City Woodworking Guild to teach a class based on Roubo’s Plate 286 I was casting about for my inventory of toothing planes. I can find three of them,...
View ArticleParquetry Class Prep and Preview
The past couple weeks I have been assembling and packing the supplies I need to teach the Parquetry class at the Kansas City Woodworker’s Guild next weekend. I will be repeating this class at The Barn...
View ArticleParquetry Workshop Day 1
Last weekend I taught a three-day workshop on creating this parquetry panel a la Roubo for the Kansas City Wood Worker’s Guild, a delightful host if ever there was one. All you’ve heard about the...
View ArticleParquetry Workshop Day 2
As is often the case for the second day of a three day workshop, the atmosphere was one of quiet work and little instruction or lecturing. Since the objective for the day was to get everyone’s...
View ArticleParquetry Workshop Day 3
The goal for the weekend, thus the goal for the day itself as the final one, was to allow each student to leave with a fairly complete Roubo parquetry panel. The pace of the day was then almost by...
View ArticleParquetry Workshop Day 3
The day began with the excitement of seeing the glued-up panels. We had slightly oversized 1/2 baltic birch plywood for each of the panels so that they could be trimmed precisely to size one the...
View ArticleMagnificent
Last Friday on my way to the annual banquet of the Society of American Period Furniture Makers at Colonial Williamsburg I took the opportunity of my foray into “civilization” (or is it “out of...
View ArticleSummer Workshops 2015
After long and careful consideration, I have concluded that I simply cannot host any workshops at The Barn this coming summer. The combination of the Studley book and exhibit, brutal winter aftermath...
View ArticleTeaching Parquetry at MASW
I recently spent a week at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking, teaching two three-day courses. I believe this was an experiment on Marc’s part, road testing some new scheduling concepts such as a...
View ArticleTeaching Historic Finishing At MASW
Right after the conclusion of the Parquetry workshop at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking I dove in again with three days of Historic Finishing (reminder to self — DO NOT do this again. The...
View Article2018 Barn Workshops
Here’s a list of the Barn workshops I’ve pencilled in for this year. I will blog in greater detail shortly. Historic Finishing April 26-28, $375 Making A Petite Dovetail Saw June 8-10, $400...
View ArticleBarn Workshop – Make A Petite Dovetail Saw
In recent years my projects and inclinations have guided me towards more diminutive work in thinner stock. This makes cutting dovetails somewhat of a challenge when using a standard saw, which is...
View ArticleBarn Workshop – Boulle Marquetry
Since seeing my first piece of antique furniture decorated with tarsia a incastro, or “Boulle work,” I have been captivated by both the art form and the technique. This ancient method of using a...
View ArticleBarn Workshop – Build A Classic Workbench
And speaking of workbenches, you’ll have the opportunity to work with me at The Barn building your own version of either a basic Roubo or Nicholson bench in Southern Yellow Pine. Thanks to my...
View Article2018 Barn Workshops Reminder
The complete 2018 Barn workshop schedule, which I will post every couple of weeks to help folks remember the schedule. ************************************************ Historic Finishing April 26-28,...
View Article2018 Barn Courses Fortnightly Reminder
The complete 2018 Barn workshop schedule, which I will post every couple of weeks to help folks remember the schedule. ************************************************ Historic Finishing April 26-28,...
View ArticleAlways On The Lookout
While preparing for the upcoming “Historic Finishing” workshop at The Barn the last weekend of this month I was struck by my good fortune in acquiring an excellent inventory of vintage finishing...
View ArticleNicholson Prototype Cut List
Since one of the goals for my Traditional Woodworking workshop in Arkansas this summer is to efficiently build a workbench for and by each participant, I actually did something I rarely do — make a...
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