Woodworking In America #2: Had a good time

Woodworking In America ……… We had a blast …

Ate too much at Portellos … twice … the Italian beef is so good … and had to bring home White Castel sliders too (we don’t have them up here) …

The Early American Furniture talk was good to see the different way they put together different styles … they had several projects that where broke down into their parts and they explained how and why of each joint and what makes a style and explained different ways to do it.

We got a few good pointers on Sketch up … I like to listen to him talk for some reason too …

We missed the 20th century talk but made the history one instead … am I am glad we did … getting the back ground of milling wood and when and where the power tools came from was very interesting …

Measure twice was a little too hand tool driven for me … but very interesting and I really liked the design part of the talk and the way he explained human proportions related to design was great …

The market place was a little small but well equipped … spent a little too much there … ordered the new (not even out yet) veritas shoulder plane …

We visited the local woodcraft and helped them out too (just got into turning and needed a sharpening system)

I thought it was cool that we got to meet Matt from Matt’s basement workshop, Shannon form Renaissance woodworker, and Chris Schwarz (he is The Man) …

I hope the hand tool version of the conference comes to Chicago next year …

-- RavinHeart - Wisconsin