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A little contest at Popular Woodworking

acanthuscarver — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:30:31 GMT

I know posts come and go rather quickly here but I thought I’d see if I could generate a little Lumberjock interest in something over at the PopWood blog.

Glen Huey was out at my place last week teaching a class on the tea table he made for the June 2008 issue of Popular Woodworking. Amongst all the teaching, building and visits from Karson and David, we managed to squeeze in a bit of fun. The weather here last week was absolutely perfect. Each day we ate lunch outside. And each day, after an outstanding meal, the conversation turned to one particular bit of lawn ornamentation…a hammock.

Well, after class one evening last week, Glen was waiting patiently for my wife and I to decide where we were going for dinner. Somehow he managed to find his way out to that hammock. All I have to say is, a few clicks of the shutter button and an email to Megan Fitzpatrick (the managing editor) is all it took to get a little contest going.

If you head over to the PopWood editor’s blog (click here to get there) you’ll find the incriminating photo. Megan has turned this into a bit of a contest. It seems My friend Adam Cherubini has recently released a DVD on hand tools and such. Megan’s contest boils down to having the readers of the blog try to come up with the funniest caption for the photo. The contest ends this Friday at 2pm and the best caption, as chosen by Megan and her diet coke, wins a free copy of Adam’s DVD. Check it out if you get the chance. It’s good clean fun…mostly.

Calling all New Jersey, PA and NY Lumberjocks

acanthuscarver — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:43:44 GMT

It’s just about time to take the show on the road again. Next weekend (Feb. 27, 28 and Mar 1) I’ll be exhibiting and demonstrating at The Woodworking Shows Somerset, NJ. It should be a great time! Last year’s show was pretty heavily attended and I expect from the crowds I’ve seen at the other shows this year will be even better. So, come on out and I’ll show you how to cut some dovetails. If you attend the show, please stop by the booth and identify yourself. I’ve had a great time meeting so many other Lumberjocks. If you let me know you’re coming, I’ll try to have the camera ready when you come into the booth (Karson can’t be the only guy posting pics of LJs at the shows). See you next weekend!

Wood Talk Online interview

acanthuscarver — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:45:09 GMT

I’ve posted a couple of blog entries here at Lumberjocks about my show schedule so I could entice a bunch of other Lumberjocks to come out and we could meet when I’m in their area. I’m sure it’s been more of a thrill for me than it has for those who’ve made the trek out to meet me. On that front, there’s a couple more shows I’ll be attending this season but I’ll post about them a little later.

What I wanted to post about today was the fact that I’m being interviewed on Wood Talk Online tonight at 8:30 EST. If you’d like to read a little more about how this came about, check out my personal blog entry my travels over the last month or two.

In the interview tonight I talk about everything from how I got started in woodworking to the furniture I make and why I started a woodworking school. Hopefully, I’ll see a bunch of you there that I haven’t had a chance to meet at the shows (and those of you who I’ve met at the shows are more than welcome to check out the show tonight as well).

Thanks to Glen Huey and Chris Schwarz at Popular Woodworking for making the interview happen. Special thanks go out to Marc Spagnuolo and Matt Vanderlist for their willingness to include the interview on their spectacular show.

Calling all Indianapolis are Lumberjocks!

acanthuscarver — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:50:11 GMT

Over the last few weeks I’ve had the pleasure of meeting lots of great LJ’s. First I got to meet the infamous Karson and a few others at the Baltimore woodworking show (you can read about it here). The next weekend I trekked to Springfield, MA for the WoodWorks event where I got to meet even more Lumberjocks (I’ll try to get some pics and a blog entry together in the next day or two). And this past weekend I travelled to Columbus, OH for the woodworking show where I met even more LJ’s. It’s been great getting to meet so many Lumberjocks from all over so, I thought I let the Indy LJ’s know that I’m headed your way in just about 10 days for the woodworking show on January 30, 31 and February 1st. If you get a chance, stop by the booth and say hello (I’ll be the guy doing the hand cut dovetail demo). I may even convince you to jump in and try cutting a set of dovetails yourself or worse yet, I might ask someone to take our picture :) If you’re coming to Indy, let me know so I can try to keep an eye open for you. I look forward to meeting LOTS of Lumberjocks in Indianapolis!

The 2009 Columbus, Ohio Woodworking Show

acanthuscarver — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:10:29 GMT

Ok, because I didn’t quite get to it quickly enough for some of you LJ’s here in Mass., I wanted to let the Ohio contingent know that I’ll be exhibiting at The Woodworking Shows next weekend (January 16th,17th and 18th). If you are in the area, please swing by the show and say hello. I’m really enjoying the chance to meet Lumberjocks from a wide variety of places.

Calling all New England Lumberjocks!

acanthuscarver — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:12:21 GMT

Since I got the chance to meet Karson and a handful of other LJ’s this past weekend at the Baltimore Woodworking Show, I thought I’d post a blog entry about the upcoming show in West Springfield, MA. If you live anywhere in the area, trek on out to the WoodWorks event this coming weekend (that’s January 9th, 10th and 11th) at the Eastern States Expo Center in West Springfield, MA. I’m going to have a booth set up and would really like to meet more Lumberjocks. This is the second stop in our whirlwind 2009 tour. I’ll post more info about other shows we’ll be attending in the next month or so. I look forward to meeting all the New England Lumberjocks this weekend.