This month I am headed to Omaha, Nebraska, to build a Dutch Tool Chest over two days for the Omaha Woodworkers Guild, and anyone can buy a ticket to watch. And if you are lucky, you can try to win the finished tool chest in a raffle at the end of the seminar.
The event is May 21-22 and is being held at the German American Society in Omaha. During the session, I’ll build a Dutch Tool Chest using hand tools and discuss all the different hand operations and how you might be able to use them in your shop. Plus, there will be squirrel jokes.
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I’ll be covering:
- Dovetailing
- Dados
- Basic hand mouldings (beads and thumbnail mouldings)
- Rabbeting
- Tongue-and-groove work
- Lots of sawing and shooting board work
- Finishing surfaces with handplanes
- Installing surface-mount hinges
At the end of each day, I’ll also give presentations on other interesting topics – on one day I’ll examine the history of workbenches in Western culture and on the other day I’ll do a presentation on chair comfort and show off one of my stick chairs (I think I have one of those thingskicking around here somewhere).
The admission fee also includes breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack.
You can register for the event here. You can read more about the two-day seminar here.
This should be a fun weekend event. I’ve never been to Omaha, and I haven’t talked to many human people during the last two years (except for Lucy, Megan and the cats). I’m sure I’ll be a little rusty, but I bet we can all get through it together.
— Christopher Schwarz
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