Sharp tools are the safest and most precise tools you can own. Learn how to use a combination of sandpaper on glass and waterstones to achieve razor sharpness.
Tim Lawson is a co-founder, and was the first Executive Director, of the Port Townsend School of Woodworking. Since retiring Tim occasionally teaches turning, finishing, sharpening and furniture making at the School.
While making this useful tool, I will show the students how to properly fit a round mortise and tenon joint and how turning tenons accurately is useful for making trunnels. I will also discuss how various round tenoned structures are useful in making tool handles, windsor forms, and nautical necessities such as ship’s wheels and belaying pins.
John McCormack is a furniture designer, maker and teacher. He lives and works in Port Townsend, WA, and believes that teaching is social design, where you give your knowledge to others rather than embodying it in an object. He finds teaching to be more social — and more socially... Read More →
In the demo, I will demonstrate through dovetails, hand cut, showing all steps. Further, I will discuss, the appropriate use of the joint, aesthetics, layout, and other dovetails; both half--blind and housed-tapered.
John McCormack is a furniture designer, maker and teacher. He lives and works in Port Townsend, WA, and believes that teaching is social design, where you give your knowledge to others rather than embodying it in an object. He finds teaching to be more social — and more socially... Read More →
In this demo, I will show students how to make a large stout canvas and leather tool bag, suitable for carrying a decent sized tool kit onto a boat, with a soft bottom, which treats the boat gently while working. The bag is my adaptation of a bag which Simon Watts had when I first met him, more than 35 years ago.
John McCormack is a furniture designer, maker and teacher. He lives and works in Port Townsend, WA, and believes that teaching is social design, where you give your knowledge to others rather than embodying it in an object. He finds teaching to be more social — and more socially... Read More →
Sharp tools are the safest and most precise tools you can own. Learn how to use a combination of sandpaper on glass and waterstones to achieve razor sharpness.
Tim Lawson is a co-founder, and was the first Executive Director, of the Port Townsend School of Woodworking. Since retiring Tim occasionally teaches turning, finishing, sharpening and furniture making at the School.
My first woodworking teacher was John Kassay, an expert in Windsor and Shaker Furniture. Later, I volunteered extensively in the Boat Shop at the Dolphin Club in San Francisco, working on maintenance, restoration and construction of various lapstrake boats, many which were Whitehalls. The sliding rowing seats of those boats in the Club are sculpted ergonomic minimalist forms, much like the 18th and early 19th c. Windsor forms documented in John Kassay’s book. In this demo, I propose to demonstrate the sculpting of the seat and in detail, demonstrate the construction and assembly of the complete sliding seat structure. http://johnpmccormackdesign.com/john-kassay.html
John McCormack is a furniture designer, maker and teacher. He lives and works in Port Townsend, WA, and believes that teaching is social design, where you give your knowledge to others rather than embodying it in an object. He finds teaching to be more social — and more socially... Read More →
I apprenticed with Hiram Lowell and Sons building dories and skiffs long ago and worked as a mariner one way or another ever since. Over the years I’ve made tools for my projects; tool boxes of course and chisel handles by the dozen, other handles as needed, bevel gauges of all sizes including the wizard of Raft Island, Joe Tremble’s planking bevel, bevel boards, mallets turned and constructed, guards for saws, draw knives and slicks, a hogging plane from a German catalogue, carved spoons are a specialty, well you get the idea.
Sharp tools are the safest and most precise tools you can own. Learn how to use a combination of sandpaper on glass and waterstones to achieve razor sharpness.
Tim Lawson is a co-founder, and was the first Executive Director, of the Port Townsend School of Woodworking. Since retiring Tim occasionally teaches turning, finishing, sharpening and furniture making at the School.
