Website Changes

Two Windsor Chairs

by Rob Carver

Rob Carver kicks off the EMGW membership year with an entertaining article about his two Wndsor chairs.  To build these chairs Rob took a a track that not many woodworkers do.  Using tools like a drawknife, spokeshaves, scorp, travisher, and compass plane, and others, Rob takes on this challenge this his hands full.  Rob even uses his kiln for drying the green wood used for the legs and green oak for the spindles and other parts.

If that wasn't enough, Rob went into riving, whittling, and bending the oak for the spindles.

What you might also find fascinating are the processes and other aids that Rob built to facilitate his work, including his steam "box" and his use of a dual laser level system to identify and measure the compound angle mortises for the seat.

There is so much more to this project and you can read it here. 

You can reach Rob at robert.carver@comcast.net.

The Furniture Institute of Massachusetts is closing its doors and everything is for sale.

We are starting with the machines. 

The first people to respond will get first admittance to the shop.

Four people will be admitted at a time.

Masks are required.

You will have one hour to inspect the machines you're interested in and then the next group of four will be admitted.

All prices as indicated or best reasonable offer. 

Purchaser is responsible for moving machines.

Cash or check only

by

APPOINTMENT ONLY

please email

furniture@verizon.net

NO PHONE CALLS

Click for a list of sale items.

New members are assigned including at large members.

1. Removed outdated link to newenglandhardwood.com

2. Added clarification that Ralph Southwick Lumber does not possess a website address.

"Constructing A Walnut and Maple Writing Desk" by Tom McLaughlin of Epic Woodworking  May, 2020 was added to the Guild Video Library.

When emails arrive marketing the tools you would like to have or a promotion or sale is advertised, what initiates your motivation to buy or pass?  Or perhaps while working on a project you’d benefit in quality, safety, or time to finish what would move you to get that in your hands?  It’s a tough call.  Discretionary savings is often inversely proportional to the desirability of certain tools.  So when, if ever, do you pull the string to buy?

Andrew Davis has some thoughts about that in his newest Bevel Cut article on Tool Shopping.

Andrew Davis brings to us a fascinating description of his Inside-Out Live Edge Mirror Frame.  Starting with a slab of ash, Andrew transforms that with some creative cuts to build a frame for a mirror that gives a natural, “edgy” appearance.  Andrew preserves the natural contours of the slab with a thoughtful consideration over where the frame segments are made.  The eye-popping appearance is only surpassed by the approach that Andrew took to make it.