Frugal Woodguy Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 I see the Normites are assembling. Lets establish the order of St. Roy before they end up blowing a circuit breaker and shutting this whole new website down. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewoodwhisperer Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 I see the Normites are assembling. Lets establish the order of St. Roy before they end up blowing a circuit breaker and shutting this whole new website down. haha ok. But I need to have my other foot in this club as well. Yes folks, I'm a double agent. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kari Hultman Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 Count me in! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlehikoinen Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 I'm with Marc on this one. I loves me hand tools, but am too new to woodworking to make a commitment either way. I will take bribes though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilburpan Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 Definitely in. Even if St. Roy bans Japanese saws from his classes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamchall Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 Count me in! St. Roy gave me props on my dovetails at WIA last year! Real nice guy. My hand tool collection is seriously starting to outpace my "tailed" equipment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timberwerks Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 I'm in. I mainly work with Japanese tools but I do have a nice collection of LN items as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordLQQK Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 Japanese saws banned? I don't see the logic there. Long live the Neanderthals of Wood. Let your Stanley flag wave high and keep your hand plane arms strong. LQQK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilburpan Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 Japanese saws banned? I don't see the logic there. Long live the Neanderthals of Wood. Let your Stanley flag wave high and keep your hand plane arms strong. LQQK Well, Roy does seem to want the immersive western style woodworking hand tool experience: The school also comes with an unusual mission and a set of rules for students. About those rules: Underhill says students are welcome to bring their own tools, but he asks that you not bring tape measures (“I’ll confiscate them and put them in the storage room,” he says with a wicked laugh.) Also, no plastic-handled chisels. No Japanese pullsaws. “This should look like you have stepped back into a shop class in the 1930s,” he says. “We’re going to be doing English-style joinery,” he says. “You wouldn’t build a shoji screen with a big Disston. That would be like stir-frying grits.” http://www.popularwoodworking.com/article/the_woodwrights_school/ I do see his logic, but the wood for a shoji would have been initially milled using boards sawn from a log using a maebiki, which makes a Disston look like a dovetail saw by comparison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordLQQK Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 I do see his logic, but the wood for a shoji would have been initially milled using boards sawn from a log using a maebiki, which makes a Disston look like a dovetail saw by comparison. I will then be Sensei Galoot. There were Japanese Galoots too. Power to the Pull Saw. LQQK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timberwerks Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 I think Roy as some fondness of Japanese tools: http://www.pbs.org/woodwrightsshop/video/2600/2608.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilburpan Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 I think Roy as some fondness of Japanese tools: http://www.pbs.org/woodwrightsshop/video/2600/2608.html Oh, I know he does. Just not in his school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordLQQK Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 I think Roy as some fondness of Japanese tools: http://www.pbs.org/woodwrightsshop/video/2600/2608.html I watched this a couple times. Do you notice the deathly fear in Reed's eyes as he watches ADHD Roy man-handle his natural 30K grit sharpening stone from Kyoto? LQQK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timberwerks Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 I watched this a couple times. Do you notice the deathly fear in Reed's eyes as he watches ADHD Roy man-handle his natural 30K grit sharpening stone from Kyoto? LQQK That is a beauty of a stone, I'd be nervous to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulMarcel Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 As a kid, I couldn't stand my dad's push saw (a run-of-the-mill panel saw). I used to grab it by the toe and pull it instead. He thought I was crazy, but I'd cut straighter. So try that in Roy's class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamV Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 10 images 1 comments I have three offerings for the altar of St. Roy. Projects one and two from The Woodwright's apprentice and one from episode 2901. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlloydparks Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 I was just at St. Roy's school last week with Chris Schwarz. It was an awesome experience all about sawing. Roy had to demonstrate his one armed sawing machine. It drew quite a crowd out front. Roy is a ton of fun, I hope to take more classes down there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nateswoodworks Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 I was just at St. Roy's school last week with Chris Schwarz. It was an awesome experience all about sawing. Roy had to demonstrate his one armed sawing machine. It drew quite a crowd out front. Roy is a ton of fun, I hope to take more classes down there. That would be an awesome experience that I am sure you'll never forget-lucky dog! I will have to find the picture and post it but my 9yr old son built me a small version of the one armed sawing machine, without ever seeing or even knowing they existed. I guess it would be more like a one finger sawing machine being it's size and the fact that he used a short reciprocating saw blade. Don't mind me, just a proud Dad bragging. Nate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenaissanceWW Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 We have 4 of these Victorian sawing machines at The Steppingstone Museum and I am slowly working to restore them to working order. Simply fascinating and such a great design. I was just at St. Roy's school last week with Chris Schwarz. It was an awesome experience all about sawing. Roy had to demonstrate his one armed sawing machine. It drew quite a crowd out front. Roy is a ton of fun, I hope to take more classes down there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddlermike Posted August 14, 2010 Report Share Posted August 14, 2010 in a battle between the galoots and the normites, who would win? granted, the normites have power on their side, but I like to think that the galoots are more portable - more mobile, really - and are the guerrillas of the tool world. I think we have the agility and stealth to win, don't you think? VIVA LA GALOOTS!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billboard Posted August 16, 2010 Report Share Posted August 16, 2010 I met St. Roy at Highland Woodworking in Atlanta awhile back. I even attempted his spring lathe. Once the pole whacked him in the head. Roy stumbled over to his shaving horse, stuffed his hat with shavings and went back to the lathe. The pole still whacking him but he was smiling now. He took me hook line and sinker. I hurt myself laughing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamV Posted September 21, 2010 Report Share Posted September 21, 2010 What's a Niddy-Noddy you ask? The Mrs. needed a Niddy-Noddy to take her newly spun yarn off of her spinning wheel. Lucky for me I was a half step ahead and had Roy's plans for just such a device. Unlucky for me she saw the plans for the Swift next to the Niddy-Noddy. Rats. Viall8r Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikbrown Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 I went to the first joinery & dovetail class weekend at his school in NC and he gave me and another guys Veritas DT saws very disparaging looks. We had a hard time convincing him that his rules only said "No Japanese tools" and "No plastic handled tools" and the Veritas violated neither of those rules Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamV Posted June 8, 2012 Report Share Posted June 8, 2012 New Roy projects! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wilkins Posted June 8, 2012 Report Share Posted June 8, 2012 Count me in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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