Showing posts with label Chris Schwarz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chris Schwarz. Show all posts

Saturday, August 25, 2012

I want a pony!




what I really wanted was a horse
but there just isn't space in the garage


last time I did one of these chairs I clearly recall
how much fun it is trying to do draw knife and spokeshave work with a bench vice


so I borrowed a page from an antique Schwarz magazine


made some shavings


checked for wind


created piles


and made more shavings


this is how you know if you got it right


and there it is
twenty hours from slab to tool


another couple for handles


I'm ready for those chairs!

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

An Open Letter to the Schwarz


What have you done!?
Created a monster you have

I figured it out tonight

I'm not an addict
I'm a user
BIG difference

perfect dovetails made easy

an addict keeps taking more and more to satisfy that ever increasing craving
a user takes what he needs and only enough to get off
a user takes a break occasionally to recharge
or rather purge the affect

to make it better the next time

I still have to buy
but only to get er done


a week ago my first square
turned out to be not square
every other damn first tool I bought met pretty much the same doom

Jer's chair

I replaced it

although only a small square; four inch overhang
it seems to be the single most used tool in my shop
well, there is the pencil

so i scoured the bay for  good BCTW rosewood square
then PWM published a transfixing article by none other than god himself
and I realized
sure would be nice to make my own counterfeit BCTW try square
could take weeks, like my custom infill smoother
but it's gotta be SQUARE


then I remembered that little nagging voice in the dark nether region of my primate brain
just go buy one!
but the Schwarz spoke from beyond and said unto me
buy a damn good one you moron!


so I journeyed to where the trees are like gumdrop pillows, and unicorns and fairies play beer pong among twizzler tufts
and put my cash on a Vesper
even sounds cool huh?

this will be my fourth Vesper


yea, I'm a user

some of my best tools, my most reached for tools, my most beautiful tools

bear his title


and all you internet power tool junkies can scoff and bitch and troll at how much a Vesper costs

then you can use one every day for a year



then write me back and apologize

and apologize to Chris while you're at it



yea both of them.