You guys are researchers, historians, craftsman, teachers, writers, videographers and businessmen.
How lucky we all are to be in an age where we can see all this without you needing to convince a suit to make your stuff available on tv or get published.
What an awesome hang! I found Lost Art Press by seeing a tee shirt that Chris at Third Coast Craftsman was wearing in a YouTube video. Bought and read the Anarchist Tool Chest and got it. Started finding tools and learning how to use them through watching James’s channel. Got to the point where I wasn’t ready to build the Anarchist Workbench yet but Rex had a great video and plans for a bench that got me a bench on which I’ve made multiple stools and chairs. And Eoin! Such an awesome addition to the hand tool sphere with an Irish perspective. I’ve got to find an American substitute for blackthorn to make me a sheleileigh (sp??). Thank you all for keeping us inspired regardless of where we are in learning the craft and history of woodworking!
(If you’re ever in SW Michigan, I know a decent brewery that’s been in Kalamazoo for a while that we could lever one up at)
I hope one of the guys explains the sandwich drilling for the Slane Chair in their videos. I understand it when I read about it, or see it in a video. But my brain breaks when I try to figure it out for a different configuration.
Before I learned to drive a car, I couldn’t understand how you could keep this huge machine at a constant speed. There are two pedals: one to make it speed up and one to make it slow down. How in the world could you stay at a steady speed? I asked my mom this and she said: You can’t know until you do it. Then you’ll understand.
It was actually Rex who recommended ingenious mechanics to me in his video about building a Roman workbench - that set me of to building my low bench. I'll be forever greatful!
Made it to the meet and greet but was too painfully shy to actually talk to anyone. I enjoyed seeing Cale showing off a chair and Megan trying to keep everything moving. Also, Dewey's pizza was kind of a revelation. Can't wait to bring the fam back to Covington to share it with them.
A young Roy Underhill is just what I’d been thinking…and also hoping was a reason he’d head my way to North Carolina. Would be great to meet more people like that.
Fantastic! I found LAP and my local hand tool club through Rex and James. Thanks for the blurb that Eoin is non-sponsored as well. I’m off to support his mission, now. :)
I’ve long wanted to host some kind of woodworking event for pure beginners. It’s hard to plan something that’s doable in a single evening with beginners. Even a spoon feels potentially out of reach.
I am doing some small projects with kids that are doable with in 10 min up to an hour depending on the setting age and attention span. I offering this to children at trade fairs or craft shows where they can try hand tools.
For example I am doing a wooden flower this week. Takes 10-15 min to do for the kids. I bet this can be done at any age, even though adults need way more time to pick stuff.
Ahh practical experience: invaluable! Would be interested to know what projects you have success with? Any references, photos or even a brief description I can reverse engineer?
Sure, I need to get around to upload a picture or reel from the flower process.
Basically I have six to eight elipical shaped petal leaves, they can be sawn or split from a blank that has been shaped with a plane or or disc sander. Much like the process how "Reifentiere" are made (if you don't know what that is: look it up and enjoy the ingenuity). I don't do the reifenprocess, but rather save the ends from interesting species and pile them as flower stock.
The process is also much like the wedge process that Chris uses and I cut them usually on the bandsäge it's similar methods. I shoot for 3/16" thickness and let the kids flatten them with either a plane or sandpaper. Plane works best, I have a shallow recess prepared in a piece of scrap which holds the leaf while planing. I demonstrate it once and let them deal the difference in surface, whatch their eyes, it's always a magical moment.
Depending on skill level the kids can be involved in the production of the leaves or if you don't have the setup to produce the leaves you can take lamellos and the fluids can paint them.
The kids can then chamfer or round off the edges or shape them further with sandpaper. More than often we just knock off the corners quick and dirty to prevent splinters.
Then we split out the stem from a similar thickness blank with a froe and shape it with a spokeshave. Usually I use cut-offs from ripping 3/4" or 2" stock. If they are a little to thick it doesn't matter, they can quickly be planed at the tip to match the leaves. Alternatively that can also be a small branch where the bark is shaved off and shaped at the top to the same thickness as the leaves.
As middle part I then use two slices from a branch which can cut by the kids or I have them prepared. Then the leaves and the stem will be sandwiched together between the slices with some fast setting glue (hot hide glue, CA or fast selling PVA, ...)
This can be up or down scaled depending on age, skill, attention span or timeframe.
I hope all this makes sense without pictures. I'll give and update once I've published a blog, reel of pics.
I would love to be part of a group where everyone brings their own chair parts obtained from the woods and builds a chair to their vision. Maybe at a cabin somewhere or a camping trip.
While I was sad to hear classes at LAP had to end, I knew it just meant there would be a different kind of fun happening at LAP. This event and your last paragraph confirm my suspicion.
This is fantastic. Tik tok led me to Eoin just as he was starting to blow up back in 2022 or 2023. I had no interest in woodworking before then. I bought my first few vintage tools and fixed them up per his videos. The more I watched about woodworking, the more the algorithms game me ads for this strange anarchist woodworker guu which is how I found LAP. 4 years in I've learned a lot and had a lot of fun.
I’d like to do this on a local level… maybe meet at a park pavilion with a bbq. No travel expenses, insurance waivers or monthly dues. Just folks getting together to build a chair.
You guys are researchers, historians, craftsman, teachers, writers, videographers and businessmen.
How lucky we all are to be in an age where we can see all this without you needing to convince a suit to make your stuff available on tv or get published.
You left out "sex machine." But thanks!
What an awesome hang! I found Lost Art Press by seeing a tee shirt that Chris at Third Coast Craftsman was wearing in a YouTube video. Bought and read the Anarchist Tool Chest and got it. Started finding tools and learning how to use them through watching James’s channel. Got to the point where I wasn’t ready to build the Anarchist Workbench yet but Rex had a great video and plans for a bench that got me a bench on which I’ve made multiple stools and chairs. And Eoin! Such an awesome addition to the hand tool sphere with an Irish perspective. I’ve got to find an American substitute for blackthorn to make me a sheleileigh (sp??). Thank you all for keeping us inspired regardless of where we are in learning the craft and history of woodworking!
(If you’re ever in SW Michigan, I know a decent brewery that’s been in Kalamazoo for a while that we could lever one up at)
I hope one of the guys explains the sandwich drilling for the Slane Chair in their videos. I understand it when I read about it, or see it in a video. But my brain breaks when I try to figure it out for a different configuration.
Thanks for sharing the plans, Chris.
Before I learned to drive a car, I couldn’t understand how you could keep this huge machine at a constant speed. There are two pedals: one to make it speed up and one to make it slow down. How in the world could you stay at a steady speed? I asked my mom this and she said: You can’t know until you do it. Then you’ll understand.
Thanks for the reply, Chris. Ill give it a go this year. Shoutout to your mom 😀
It was actually Rex who recommended ingenious mechanics to me in his video about building a Roman workbench - that set me of to building my low bench. I'll be forever greatful!
Made it to the meet and greet but was too painfully shy to actually talk to anyone. I enjoyed seeing Cale showing off a chair and Megan trying to keep everything moving. Also, Dewey's pizza was kind of a revelation. Can't wait to bring the fam back to Covington to share it with them.
A young Roy Underhill is just what I’d been thinking…and also hoping was a reason he’d head my way to North Carolina. Would be great to meet more people like that.
Fantastic! I found LAP and my local hand tool club through Rex and James. Thanks for the blurb that Eoin is non-sponsored as well. I’m off to support his mission, now. :)
I’ve long wanted to host some kind of woodworking event for pure beginners. It’s hard to plan something that’s doable in a single evening with beginners. Even a spoon feels potentially out of reach.
I am doing some small projects with kids that are doable with in 10 min up to an hour depending on the setting age and attention span. I offering this to children at trade fairs or craft shows where they can try hand tools.
For example I am doing a wooden flower this week. Takes 10-15 min to do for the kids. I bet this can be done at any age, even though adults need way more time to pick stuff.
Ahh practical experience: invaluable! Would be interested to know what projects you have success with? Any references, photos or even a brief description I can reverse engineer?
Sure, I need to get around to upload a picture or reel from the flower process.
Basically I have six to eight elipical shaped petal leaves, they can be sawn or split from a blank that has been shaped with a plane or or disc sander. Much like the process how "Reifentiere" are made (if you don't know what that is: look it up and enjoy the ingenuity). I don't do the reifenprocess, but rather save the ends from interesting species and pile them as flower stock.
The process is also much like the wedge process that Chris uses and I cut them usually on the bandsäge it's similar methods. I shoot for 3/16" thickness and let the kids flatten them with either a plane or sandpaper. Plane works best, I have a shallow recess prepared in a piece of scrap which holds the leaf while planing. I demonstrate it once and let them deal the difference in surface, whatch their eyes, it's always a magical moment.
Depending on skill level the kids can be involved in the production of the leaves or if you don't have the setup to produce the leaves you can take lamellos and the fluids can paint them.
The kids can then chamfer or round off the edges or shape them further with sandpaper. More than often we just knock off the corners quick and dirty to prevent splinters.
Then we split out the stem from a similar thickness blank with a froe and shape it with a spokeshave. Usually I use cut-offs from ripping 3/4" or 2" stock. If they are a little to thick it doesn't matter, they can quickly be planed at the tip to match the leaves. Alternatively that can also be a small branch where the bark is shaved off and shaped at the top to the same thickness as the leaves.
As middle part I then use two slices from a branch which can cut by the kids or I have them prepared. Then the leaves and the stem will be sandwiched together between the slices with some fast setting glue (hot hide glue, CA or fast selling PVA, ...)
This can be up or down scaled depending on age, skill, attention span or timeframe.
I hope all this makes sense without pictures. I'll give and update once I've published a blog, reel of pics.
I would love to be part of a group where everyone brings their own chair parts obtained from the woods and builds a chair to their vision. Maybe at a cabin somewhere or a camping trip.
"Would you believe, I missed it by that much?"
All the video footage was great, though, and the room at the Hotel Covington was adequate. I'm not using hyperbole when I say that.
Thank you all involved for advancing the craft in this way!
... a party where you make a coffin is a special kind of party.
While I was sad to hear classes at LAP had to end, I knew it just meant there would be a different kind of fun happening at LAP. This event and your last paragraph confirm my suspicion.
This is fantastic. Tik tok led me to Eoin just as he was starting to blow up back in 2022 or 2023. I had no interest in woodworking before then. I bought my first few vintage tools and fixed them up per his videos. The more I watched about woodworking, the more the algorithms game me ads for this strange anarchist woodworker guu which is how I found LAP. 4 years in I've learned a lot and had a lot of fun.
This is lovely! Looks like a great time!!
Sorry, but if I saw that group walking toward me on the sidewalk, I'd cross to the other side.
I’d like to do this on a local level… maybe meet at a park pavilion with a bbq. No travel expenses, insurance waivers or monthly dues. Just folks getting together to build a chair.
Three of us did that in 2020 with the JA chair. It was great fun and very educational.