From Missiles to MelORols: Covington, KY, Mystery Update.

 

Last year before the WIA annual event I posted “Covington, Kentucky, 1913: A Family Mystery” (which can be read here). This extensive post brings my research into the history of my father and prolific American inventor, C. W. Vogt (1891-1973), up to date, with archival photos and documents.

Vogt Family Background

It is worthwhile […]

Deneb, I’m quoting you.

Several weeks back, in an e-mail exchange with Deneb from LieNielsen, I was joking about committing to a Hand Tool Event at the Connecticut Valley School Of Woodworking.

“Okay, I’ll do the show if you promise there will be no snowstorms!”referring to the gigantic winter storm of late October 2011 that hit right in the […]

Follow up to “Fun with pencil sharpeners.”

Another thing Bob Van Dyke helped me with in the pencil department was suggesting that I use red pencil on the end grain of the White Oak I’ve been using for drawer stock. It isn’t that the scribed lines or pencil marks are hard to see, it’s that they are completely invisible to this old […]

Fun with pencil sharpeners.

Bob Van Dyke is one of the most fun and informed wood workers you can talk to. You name the topic, he’s either taught it or had one of the country’s leading authorities come and teach it at his school. After this many years he has picked up quite a bag of tricks and tips.

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Stephen Shepherd’s marvelous cheese saw.

A couple years ago Stephen announced in a blog post that he was making cheese saws for sale. Thinking ahead to an upcoming wedding of some delightful young persons of my acquaintance

 

 

 

I ordered one for them and one for my family and made cherry cutting boards to match.

 

 

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