June 1st, 2010 Today I signed up for the Woodworking in America Conference, September 30th through October 3rd in Cincinnati. This will be my first time attending, and I’m pretty psyched. A PDF of the schedule and the presenters is on the Woodworking in America site.
I’ve signed up for the following sessions:
- Dovetailing Drawers: Pins First
- Sharpening & Using Chisels & Card Scrapers
- Cutting Mortises Quickly
- Design a Door with Pleasing Proportions and Good Grain
- The Essential Router Plane
- Chisels: The Good, the Bad and the Garbage
- Set Up a Band Saw for Ultimate Precision
- Introduction to SketchUp
- Sliding Dovetails Without Fail
- Advanced SketchUp
- Handplaning Boards: From Rough to Finished
- Eliminate Drift on the Band Saw
- Designing Strong Mortise-and-Tenon Joints
- Planing Impossible Woods
- Cutting Tenons by Hand
- Put Some Mojo in Your Designs
I’ll also be attending the Toolmaker’s Dinner & Taste of Cincinnati and the Friday Evening Keynote Dinner, and crawling through the pubs during the pub crawl.
I’ve already blogged about who will be teaching and attending, it really is a great opportunity to learn from the best, try out tools, and meet other woodworkers and woodworking bloggers.
I hope I’ll be able to take my video camera, shoot some video, and post it here on the site. I’d especially love to interview Frank Klausz and debate pins-first or tails-first dovetails with him, and listen to him tell stories of apprenticing with his father back in Hungary. He likes to fish, and I’d love to talk to him about that as well.
Watching his father work, Frank asked, "How can you do that so fast?" His father replied, "After ten or fifteen years you’re going to be a pretty good beginner yourself."
May 27th, 2010 I’ve worked in the software industry for almost 16 years, and for 15 of those years, I worked on games. I’ve been to a lot of conferences over the years: E3, GDC, and Gamefest.
But the conference I’m most interested in attending is the Woodworking in America conference, this October in Cincinnati. If you’re a woodworker, hobbiest or professional, this is the conference for you.
From the website:
Immerse yourself in a weekend of woodworking packed with non-stop demonstrations, evening social activities (dinners, pub crawls) and a behind-the-scenes visit to an unrestored Shaker Village.
Learn skills directly from today’s top craftsmen – dovetails, inlay, handplanes, tablesaw techniques and much more– in more than 40 different classes.
Browse our unparalled Marketplace with top hand- and power-tool exhibitors– many of which you won’t find at any other show: Lee Valley, General International, Lie-Nielsen, Woodcraft and more, plus custom toolmakers including Sauer & Steiner, Eccentric Toolworks, Medallion Toolworks, and many more.
Check out the list of woodworking celebrities:
- Roy Underhill
- Frank Klausz
- Michael Fortune
- Christopher Schwarz
- Marc Adams
- Ron Herman
- Jim Tolpin
- George Walker
- Don Williams
- Robert Lang
- Glen Huey
And from the podcasting world:
I’m putting together my plans right now, hoping I can make it. If you’re going to go, let me know.
April 17th, 2010 Today was a great day in the shop! Things were definitely going well and moving along at a nice clip without problems. Tons of thanks to my wife for giving me so much time to dedicate to the project today. I’m behind on this project so I really want to put in the extra hours to get this finished and delivered. I am confident I’ll be delivering the dresser next Sunday.
The faces of the plywood used for the drawers were already finished. The tops of the drawer sides and backs are rounded over, sanded, and coated with shellac. This makes them super smooth so clothes and fingers won’t catch on them.
Here are the pictures showing today’s progress.
The drawer fronts are locked into the sides with groves, here’s a top down sketch of how they’re locked in. The grooves and roundovers were done on the router table.
Here’s what the dresser looked like at the end of the day. Eight drawers all done and installed and they pass the “can you pull it open from the corner” test.
I put a bit of shellac on the corner to satisfy my curiosity and I’m happy with how this will look when complete.
Next steps
- Get the final faces for the drawers cut, trimmed out, and installed. I need to spend some time thinking about how I make sure these drawer fronts line up just perfectly with the face of the case when they are shut.
- After that, it’s sand and finish. I’ll put a sand and finish just about every night this week to build up a nice coat.
- Right before delivery I’ll install the base.
- I’ll either install the pulls on site, or email with the customer this week to finalize their position.
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