Happenings and Openings

The shop is buzzing these days. I have a couple of open class spots, one in the Temple chair class in February and one in the March Comb Back class, contact me if you are interested!

We just finished the first class of 2022 and while teaching through a kn95 isn’t fun, the class was! Here are a few shots of student work.

I must admit, I take a great deal of pride in the quality of my students chairs, anyone who has taken a class knows this. Not that I want perfection (doesn’t exist) but I do want the work to show the understanding and skill that has been gained. This last class was a great example of this, everyone worked hard and the chairs looked smashing.

I have been helping Aspen Golann with her Chairmaker’s Toolbox project. I got a bunch of tools donated by Tom Valeriano and I’m going to tune them up so Aspen can distribute them via her project. I could spend my whole life bringing old tools back to life. Georgia feels the same

This one is a challenge, rusty as hell, so I’m adjusting the bevel to get away from the pitted surface steel. I think I’ll shoot a video of the process and load it on instagram and youtube. Check those channels out.

Looking forward to building a new rocker slot jig (plans soon!) and reshooting my milkpaint video series, I was very new know both video production and online instruction, so I want to revisit it!

Winter is Here! At least it's Warm

So I made a last minute push to finish my sauna before the snow set in and boy was it worth it! Here is the cedar lined and completed interior. I’m still working on the dressing room but I must admit that it exceeds expectations for how lovely it is to be able to get so incredibly warm to the bone!

I feel great being able to burn the refuse from the shop again. Guess who’s shop I recently raided for burnable scrap.

And in the name of finishing lingering projects, I’ve gotten the last session of the “Foundation in Chairmaking” series that covers the construction processes complete and uploaded to Vimeo on Demand. In celebration, I’m offering the entire series (14.5 hours long so far, finishing content to come soon) for 15 % off until 1/15/22. Just enter the promo code “2022” when purchasing. Here’s a link to the page.

As you may have noticed, the blog is still in my website and not at the old address as I foretold in the last post, moving it proved to be too cumbersome. I’m trying to streamline all my web stuff and it is a huge hassle, but going forward will hopefully pay off!