Chris Schwarz

After many delays and much anticipation, here’s the final installment of my tool chest adventure. When we left off last time, we had finished the assembly of the lid, which was the Thursday morning of my class. The case had been assembled the day before and was awaiting finish. Late […]

I have a tool chest! part 3

December 31, 2015 in Education / Hand Tools tagged Chris Schwarz / hand tools / Marc Adams School of Woodworking / tool chest by cowboywoodworker

Hey! I’m glad to see you made it back. So we left off last time at the end of Tuesday during my hand tool class. Everyone had their tool chests glued and clamped to sit up overnight. Wednesday started with the nail-biting experience of taking the clamps off the cases […]

I have a tool chest! part 2

November 30, 2015 in Hand Tools tagged Chris Schwarz / hand tools / Marc Adams School of Woodworking / tool chest by cowboywoodworker

Hello again! I’m glad to see you’ve all found me at my new home, on our new website! Once you’ve finished catching up on my blogs, make sure you check out our main site, McLarenFamilyCrafts.com, and see what the business is doing! I’ve been on a break from the turning […]

I have a tool chest! part 1

October 19, 2015 in Education / Hand Tools tagged Chris Schwarz / hand tools / Marc Adams School of Woodworking / tool chest by cowboywoodworker

Back for more? Great! When we last talked, I was discussing why I needed to build a workbench and why I chose the style that I did. As I mentioned last time, the majority of my inspiration for my bench came from Chris Schwarz’s Workbenches book. In this book, Chris mentioned […]

Starting the Roubo: Stock selection, sawing and planing

December 17, 2014 in Uncategorized tagged Chris Schwarz / Marc Adams School of Woodworking / quality workbench / Roubo by Making Shavings: Buddy's Woodworking Saga