All lovers of quality hand tools–Listen up.
At least if you are within driving distance of Portland, Ore.
Gary Rogowski’s Northwest Woodworking Studio, in Portland Ore. will be the place to be on February 19th and 20th for the Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event. This event will have notaries such as Ron Hock (need Ron’s latest book or have it signed?), Kevin Drake and Dave Jeske will be there set up to demonstrate.
These events that Thomas Lie-Nielsen began a few years ago have grown to be a very popular event. In fact, I believe they are the only place for a free, interactive chance to use hand tools. Need questions answered about the use or the care and feeding of hand tools? Go.
These LN Hand Tool Events are so much more than simply a place to purchase a tool. They are the opportunity to enhance your ability to sharpen any tool woodworking related, to learn to quickly and easily flatten a board (check out the use of a toothed blade in this regard), to mark out your work, to saw better–in short, to do any hand tool woodworking task.
While you are at it, check out Gary’s school. Top-rate instruction in the fine art of woodworking goes on there, taught by dedicated instructors. The address to the school is on the LN site and can be gotten to by clicking on the Lie-Nielsen link in the first paragraph.
I hope to see you there. I’ll might pop on down to Gary’s school on Friday afternoon, but probably will have to await Saturday instead depending on how Friday is shaping up at work.
And for y’all in northern Washington State, Lie-Nielsen will be at Seattle Central Community College on February 26th and 27th. For the address, see the announcement page on the Lie-Nielsen web site.
Take care, Mike
(P.S., did I mention these events are free…?)