Handsawing, Handsaws and Saw benches with Christopher Schwarz July 14-18, 9AM to 4PM, WAITING LIST $775 Plus Materials All levels. |
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| What could be simpler than sawing wood? Hand sawing is a basic skill but its finer points are often overlooked by woodworkers. Learn the fundamentals of hand sawing techniques from rough sawing to precise joinery cuts. Get sawing techniques for everything from half-laps to tenons to dovetails. We cover all the basics: saw rake, set, how to saw, and traditional English-style sawing and dovetailing. Students will build an old-school saw bench and a small silverware tray. This class is one of the fundamental ones for hand tool woodworking. |
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Chris Schwarz editor, Popular Woodworking magazine, is a long-time amateur woodworker and professional journalist. He built his first workbench at age 8 and spent weekends helping his father build two houses on the family's farm outside Hackett, Ark.-- using mostly hand tools. He has journalism degrees from Northwestern University and The Ohio State University and worked as a magazine and newspaper journalist before joining Popular Woodworking in 1996. Despite his early experience on the farm, Chris remains a hand-tool enthusiast.