FINE WOODWORKING

[mike toulouzas]

 8)please find the time to check the beautifull projects of these....students.
http://www.insidepassage.ca/archives%20craftsman_2005_2006.htm 
even the tools that they are using are super from the most comon (hummer to some strange..._)
Imagin if there was a PUZZLEMAKE school and have 2-3 year graduation  
I think i would be the last student of the last students..

[Canuck]

Thanks for posting that link Mike!  That's some amazing pieces of 'fine furniture' 

Here's a couple of pics that really caught my eye!!


Showcase of pear and east Indian Rosewood showing twin tenon compound angled joinery. The workmanship of this piece is exquisite.


Curved dovetails in yellow cedar fitted ready for a light coat of shellac. Pins and tails will finish slightly proud leaving very little room for grain consolidation. The joints are impeccably executed in a friendly yet unforgiving wood.

A school for making puzzles!!!  Imagine teachers like You, Mark, Scott, Robert...what the heck...sign me up!

[Roby]

Ehhh, some of that stuff looks past my ability, and I would have to be the student.  I love the inlays of the tree, and that some of those curved pieces are insane.  Do you realize that some of those pieces are "cut to curve" in more than one axis so that they could not simply be cut that way with a jigsaw.  I think that they had to be don by hand with an old time hand held curved blade plainer.  Also to have their ends mortised at odd angles is hard for me to fathom.

[Trooper]

Mike and John,
Thanks for the Pics.  Very nice workmanship and timber indeed.  The owner of one of these pieces would have to be proud to show it off   

[STP]

Those are some beautiful pieces!  However, I had a roommate in college who was studying Architecture and realized way back then that I am too much of an engineer to accept subjective criticism about my work!  Nevertheless, it would still be quite an honor to learn at such a school.

About the puzzles - it would be superb to have an online puzzlemaking school, sharing techniques, jigs, favorite woods, fun and humor.  Wait - that's our FORUM!

Glad to be part of this!

[mike toulouzas]

Those are some beautiful pieces!  However, I had a roommate in college who was studying Architecture and realized way back then that I am too much of an engineer to accept subjective criticism about my work!  Nevertheless, it would still be quite an honor to learn at such a school.

About the puzzles - it would be superb to have an online puzzlemaking school, sharing techniques, jigs, favorite woods, fun and humor.  Wait - that's our FORUM!

Glad to be part of this!

very good Thought