THE UNPLUGGED WOODSHOP
Tom Caspar at the bench
Tom Caspar
September 29 – October 3
Does your plane just skip across a board? Your scraper only make dust? In the Unplugged Woodshop you’ll learn how to sharpen and use chisels, planes, scrapers, saws and spokeshaves: all the basic edge tools. You’ll learn how to flatten a board, even a glue joint, make a mortise and tenon joint, shape a cabriole leg and make half-blind dovetails. This introductory class is about the role of hand tools in a power tool shop. Hand tools often get the job done quicker - and are much more fun! Tom emphasizes practical solutions to everyday problems.
Tom Caspar is Senior Editor of American Woodworker magazine, and the author of over fifty technique, project and tool-test articles. He has been a furniture maker since apprenticing to a Swedish cabinetmaker twenty-nine years ago. During the many years he was a self-employed woodworker, Tom developed the curriculum for and taught this popular course on hand tools.