Well, folks we have pics so it did happen. 
We had a great day. Everyone did very well. Doing good fitting hand cut dovetails is an act of patience. Thanks to Barbara for bringing food and drinks. That was excellent. I keep asking her to come next week during the chair class to bring food, but for some reason she'd rather be on her cruise. :lol: :lol:
Here is the class photo: Starting from the left it is Mark, Me, Chris, Brad, Rob, Pete, and Barbara.
The first goal was to learn how to cut straight. Once we got them sawing straight it was time to do the first joint. A through dovetail. Here was the goal.
Here was the success of Chris. Give him a big hand. :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap The only one brave enough to let me take a photo.
After lunch we did a second joint. The half blind dovetail. We did the tails first on the through so we were well set to conquer the half blind dovetails. Again here was the goal. This was mine and probably some of my best work until I tried to assemble the joint backwards and ruined the edge of two of the tails. I was checking the layout to see how close to symmetrical I was. I was little off.
Sadly no one was brave enough to shair their half blinds as well. Maybe someone from the class will post of photo of their joint. (Hint Hint Guys)
We had a blast. We covered some other things along the way. We talked scraper sharpening, chisel shaping and sharpening, and lots of other fun wwing projects. I think everyone had a great time and hopefully walked away with something learned.
There are lots more photos in my gallery!!! Take a look at them hard at work.
Thanks,
John
We had a great day. Everyone did very well. Doing good fitting hand cut dovetails is an act of patience. Thanks to Barbara for bringing food and drinks. That was excellent. I keep asking her to come next week during the chair class to bring food, but for some reason she'd rather be on her cruise. :lol: :lol: Here is the class photo: Starting from the left it is Mark, Me, Chris, Brad, Rob, Pete, and Barbara.
The first goal was to learn how to cut straight. Once we got them sawing straight it was time to do the first joint. A through dovetail. Here was the goal.
Here was the success of Chris. Give him a big hand. :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap The only one brave enough to let me take a photo.
After lunch we did a second joint. The half blind dovetail. We did the tails first on the through so we were well set to conquer the half blind dovetails. Again here was the goal. This was mine and probably some of my best work until I tried to assemble the joint backwards and ruined the edge of two of the tails. I was checking the layout to see how close to symmetrical I was. I was little off.
Sadly no one was brave enough to shair their half blinds as well. Maybe someone from the class will post of photo of their joint. (Hint Hint Guys)
We had a blast. We covered some other things along the way. We talked scraper sharpening, chisel shaping and sharpening, and lots of other fun wwing projects. I think everyone had a great time and hopefully walked away with something learned.
There are lots more photos in my gallery!!! Take a look at them hard at work.
Thanks,
John
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