Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event in Chicago March 20 & 21
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https://www.lie-nielsen.com/hand-tool-events/USA/47
Lie Nielsen is having a hand tool event in Chicago at Jeff Miller’s workshop.
FYI. Escpecially: @jrfinkel & @dborn
I think I’ll go and ogle their tools for a bit. It would be nice to see them in real life.
20 March 2015 at 12:32 am #125714Their hand tool events are really nice. They put out a nice spread and just let you go crazy with them on the benches they set up (at the one in Denver they did, at least).
Do it and have a blast.
21 March 2015 at 9:46 pm #125801What I learned today at the Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event.
- Jeff Miller, who hosted this event, is a master furniture maker who specializes in chairs: really beautiful and comfortable chairs.
- There are a lot of hand-tool enthusiasts in the area. People were there from Michigan and Wisconsin, as well as the Chicago area
- Lie-Nielson makes beautiful tools that are a joy to use.
- The key to most of these tools is sharpening.
- A thick plane iron, with a secondary bevel, is no better that a thinner iron with a cambered bevel. I brought along a piece of osage orange, the most difficult wood I’ve every tried to plane. The Lie-Neilson low-angle plane could not handle it at all. Their #4-1/2 high-angle plane could. But it was no better than my inexpensive Stanley #4 with a freshly sharpened iron.
- Roubo hardwood benches are beautiful. But they are no better, and far more expensive, than what I take to be a traditional English joinery bench, which Paul teaches how to make. The one I made, following Paul’s video instructions, is more solid and just as functional.
- I need to sharpen my backsaws, The new, sharp ones that Lie-Nielson had were amazing, Their 12 ppi crosscut saw produced a glass-smooth surface, even on the osage orange, My Tyzack & Son tenon saw — another eBay find — will work just as well, though, once I really tune it properly. I hope.
It was a totally fun way to spend three hours. I met a fellow from Uruguay who is doing what I did 35 years ago: he is restoring double-hung windows. He wanted to hire me. I was actually tempted.
Thanks again to @jude for letting us know about this!
I’ve been to LN shows in both Chicago and Minneapolis. Great venues for looking at, and maybe springing for a tool or two. I own several of their planes and they’re awesome as advertised (when properly set up and maintained of course). Jeff’s a great host and has a great place up in Rodgers Park. I want to get there sometime and take a course from him.
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