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Slideshow: The Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool event at Popular Woodworking magazine, in Cincinnati

May 21, 2009 By

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Sandy and I had an opportunity to take a mini-vacation. We slipped away to Cincinnati over the weekend, to attend the Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event at the Popular Woodworking magazine offices. On the way back we stopped in Hannibal, MO, on the banks of the Mississippi River, and played tourists for an entire morning.

I converted a group of photos I snapped into a slide show, and then created a short video from that slide show.

The show starts with one of two pairs of geese, and their babies, in front of the parking lot of F&W Media, the parent company to Popular Woodworking and Woodworking magazines. This was an amazing sight I had to share, as they allowed me to get very close. I was afraid one of the two parents would attack, so I gave them enough room. In our area this would be a very rare happening, as geese are much more shy, and guard their territory well.

I hope readers don’t mind me posting this, and think it is a duplicate of the wonderful post by Bob Lang, Senior Editor, Popular Woodworking. Please consider this as the unofficial record of the event, and Bob’s  THE OFFICIAL record (this is the link to his slide show). My thanks to everyone at Popular Woodworking for your hospitality!

It was great to see and meet so many fellow woodworkers and hand tool manufacturers in one place over two days. I congratulate the folks at Popular Woodworking and Lie-Nielsen for putting together this event – Sandy and I enjoyed it immensely! I had a chance to meet Thomas Lie-Nielsen, and to chat with Deneb, Linda, and Mandy. You will see them in action in the slide show.

It was also great to visit at length with the other manufacturers at the event: Ron Hock, blade maker; Jameel Abraham, of Benchcrafted fame; Ron Brese, maker of exquisite infill planes; Bob Zajicek, maker of superb layout tools, and sponsor of my blog; Kevin Drake, of Glen-Drake Toolworks; and John Economaki, of Bridge City Tools.

Of course, it was great to see Christopher Schwarz, Bob Lang, and Megan Fitzpatrick hard at work, too. Make sure to see all the bling on the window by the workbench where The Schwarz hangs out. You can’t miss the reflections from the flash. And Bob Lang was quite busy fitting tenons into mortises the entire weekend, when he was not taking photographs of others at the Event.

Did you have a chance to attend the event? If you did, let me know what you found interesting. I, for one, hope it can happen somewhere in the Midwest, as driving 1,600 miles or more over the weekend was a challenge. But we did get some needed rest in Hannibal, MO, on the return trip.

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Filed Under: Blog, Cincinnati, Dovetails, Popular Woodworking, Shows, Video Tagged With: , , ,

#40. WIA: Bevel-up vs. Bevel-down Planes

December 23, 2008 By

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Running time: 1 hour, 14 min., 42 sec.

Christopher Schwarz moderated this session on the second day of Woodworking in America in Berea, KY. Robin Lee and Thomas Lie-Nielsen participated. Highlights of items covered during this session:

Summary (from notes I took during the session – but everything is on the video):

  1. Characteristics of both types of hand planes.
  2. Questions with Robin Lee and Thomas Lie-Nielsen.
  3. Questions from the audience.

Now for the good stuff:

Using a Veritas bevel-up plane as an example, Schwarz explained:

  1. There is no removable frog.
  2. These have been called “low angle” tools, which can be confusing because they can be made into high-angle tools.
  3. What changes when using a bevel-up plane? We gain, due to some of the following advantages, and lose some due to a few disadvantages:
  • The sharpening angle of attack influences the angle of the tool: Low angle, for end grain, for example; and high angle for “tricky” grain.
  • The adjustment mechanisms are vastly different; they result in easier, and more accurate, blade adjustment with the bevel-up tools. Blade projection is easier; but lateral adjustment can be more tricky on the bevel-up planes.
  • There is no separate chip breaker. Robin Lee discusses wood failure.
  • Some discussion followed on changing the angle of attack by changing the back bevel on the iron; Schwarz does not like this approach, as it doubles sharpening time.
  • A major advantage of bevel-down smoothers and jointers: Making adjustments “on-the-fly”, which gives great feedback to the user.
  • A disadvantage of the bevel-up tools: Cannot “point” with the index finger, or make adjustments.

Starting about 45 minutes into the session, the panel took questions from the audience. This was a great session with two major players on the tool manufacturing side, an amateur woodworker who doubles as a magazine editor, and an audience hungry for information.

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Filed Under: Berea, Blog, Conference, Hand tools, Video, Woodworking in America Tagged With: , , , , , ,

#39. WIA: Advanced Dovetailing with Frank Klausz

December 16, 2008 By

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Run time: 1 hour, 51 min., 47 sec.

Frank Klausz returns in this episode on Advanced Dovetailing, to share how he makes half-blind and mitered dovetails. He shares tips that are crucial to get excellent joint fit with a minimum set of tools. I filmed this during his wonderful session, at the Woodworking in America hand tool conference in Berea, KY.

The session opened with Klausz talking about his background, and his search in America for “…others who made dovetails like his grandpa made them, back in Hungary…”. He later told the audience he has made “… a total of 12 of these, and now is getting ready to make his 13th mitered dovetail joint…”

Pins-first is the order of the day when making both, the half-blind, and the mitered varieties of dovetails. Klausz also uses a sharpened pencil to mark the tails from the pins; and, from the Pins vs. Tails dovetailing videos I filmed during his first session, white glue is what he uses to assemble the dovetails. He considers white glue a great stress-remover when the time comes to glue up dovetail projects – the longer open time of the white glue is good for these, he says. Of course, he is right.

If you decide to download the video: The file size is 570 MB. It will take a while, depending on your connection speed.

Relevant posts:
Woodworking in America: Pins vs. Tails, with Frank Klausz

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