I guess the headline should be that the new classes are up on the schedule, but with all that’s happening, it feels like everything is a headline. Registration begins this Wednesday Aug 30th at 8, so check out the classes!
My time has been split between teaching, developing some new tools and trying to finish my house before the cold sets in and the money runs out. The progress has me feeling hopeful that I’ll be out of the tent by Thanksgiving, but I’m still prioritizing having an indoor shower.
Here you can see that the rockwool panels are going on the outside of the house, the walls that infill the timberframe are only about 3” thick, so insulating the outside made the most sense.
The clapboard siding will go on the vertical strips on the outside of the panels and leave an air gap.
Recent classes have been going great, especially the design class that I taught with Aspen Golann. She hand picked a very talented group of makers to come explore building rocking chairs from soup to nuts. We decided to pursue a very fun design that had the seat suspended by the spindles. It worked out well and hopefully the process of designing a rocking chair will inspire the makers to head home and create more. There is still room in my October design class if you want to come tackle the creative and technical aspects of creating chairs.
Here’s Aspen in our prototype
I also designed a T shirt and we had a bunch printed up. The design is sort of a chalkboard drawing displaying the 4 views of a chair, the rake, splay, sightline and resultant. You can see the relationship between the views and maybe, just maybe you’ll get some insight into sightlines, or you can just enjoy the all cotton T shirt. You can order them through my website or come see me at Handworks next weekend.
Oh and as for Handworks, I’ll be showing off my new travisher design!!!! I also plan to have a few to sell, so show up early. This tool is different than my previous design in that it’s meant to be easier to do rougher work. The handle shape and geometry of the tool allows you to use the force more from your arms than hands and wrists. I often hand this to students struggling with the inshave and they never give it back. I’m very excited to get into full production of this one, it’s very intuitive and effective.
Sneak peek of the new travisher
I have another tool that I’m developing, but it’s still under super secret protocol while I work out the kinks and see if it is of any real value!
And of course Georgia is enjoying glamping this summer, especially when I use my cool as can be scythe to make her little hay beds all over the property
and this is Zues, he lives across the street and is very curious, he even climbs the scaffold to give the carpenters a hand with the siding