Here’s a recap of Saturday and Sunday (days 2 &3) of Woodworking in America 2016.  Saturday was a fun day of workshops and lectures.     I watched a great talk by Caleb James on Danish Modern furniture. Chris Schwarz had a talk about Chairmanning and a talk about his Roman Workbenches. Roy Underhill demonstrated how to make a classic coffin. Mary May demonstrated how to carve volutes, C-Scrolls and other similarly projects. I also had some fun guarding Chris’ low Roman workbench as I helped Roy get it out to his van.

I got to see some more old friends, meet some new ones and meet several friends I knew from being online, but not in person.  I got to meet Mike Flaim and had a brief interview with Dyami Plotke of MWA.

In the evening we had an event where we went Rhinegeist Brewery for some very good beer and BBQ followed by a tour of some of the massive underground brewing and beer storage tunnels that are under much of Cincinnati.

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Another great view of the Cincinnati waterfront.

Caleb James’ excellent presentation on Danish Modern furniture.

Caleb’s traveling tool chest with a large collection of the planes he’s made.

Great Hans Wegner quote

Caleb James

Nicely proportioned stool

A table from Caleb’s presentation we all hope to see in an article at some point.

George Walker

George Walker’s talk on Designing With Curves

George Walker with his string 2.0

George Walker demonstrating some great, and traditional ways of working with curves

Mary May’s class on carving volutes, C-scrolls and similar things

Sample of a violin scroll

Carving a volute

Mary May Carving a C-Scroll

Mike Siemsens’s Anarchist Tool Chest

Zach Dillinger with his very nice reproduction ottoman.

Zach Dillinger taking questions as the end of one of his workshops.

Quick selfie with my hero, Roy Underhill. It’s always great to see him and he’s very nice to all of us fans.

You know Roy Underhill’s presentation killed — there were a LOT of coffins all over the room.

Chris Schwarz’ talk on Roman Workbenches

Chris demonstrating how versatile the low bench is for preparing stock.

Taller Roman Workbench with Chris hand rasped nuts.

Chris Schwarz’ talk on making a straightforward chair (showing how you don’t need to invest in a lot of fancy chairmanning tools to make a comfortable and nice looking chair)

Chris cutting wedges for his chair leg tenons.

Vampire vise made by my friend Peter Ross for Chris Schwarz’ tall Roman workbench

Double wedged tenons in the Roman Workbenches to close up any gaps.

The nicest bus stop bench in Covington, KY. Guarding Chris’ low Roman workbench as Roy went to get his van.

Selfie while laying on a Roman bench in the middle of a city sidewalk.

Couldn’t help but think of the beginning of the Woodwright’s Shop as Roy walked to the parking garage that looks almost a bit like the streets of Durham, NC 😉

Rhinegeist Brewery in Cincinnati

Enjoying my time at Rhinegeist Brewery with Zach, Jake and others. They even had a beer called ‘Steve’

It was OctoberFest weekend in Cincinnati — the largest outside of Germany. Made my German ancestors happy to try all the brews and see all the folks in Lederhosen and Dirndls.

Folks jousting American Gladiator style in full on lederhosen.

One of our tour guides of the many underground brewery buildings in Cincinnati

Cincinnati Connector Street Cars

Great old sign dating back to the first days of electric in the city (At least according to our guide who was quite a character)

Pig sticker fence. I also really like how the guy restoring this row house painted the CDX on the door to look like a door and even layered it on the windows and painted them to look a bit like sash. Nice touch.

About to enter a spooky underground brewing cave that has even been in some recent movies.

Gives and idea of how big some of these brewers were back in the day, under a large hill in the city.

There might even be a ghost in this photo….

Inside of the hotel lobby. A very big open space

Testing out my new Timbuk2 camera backpack. Worked out great on this trip

A paddlewheel sightseeing boat out on the river.

If you’d like to see my photo recap of the first day of WIA 2016, please check out this earlier post here.

I had a great time at the event and hope to see many of you there next year.

Take care,
-Bill
@TheRainford