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ATTENTION PLEASE: A Correction
PIX APPENDIX: Greg Blake'sPlanes Galore
WOODWORKING HANDTOOLS: The Proud & Unplugged

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Your attention, please!

We need to make a correction to  

Issue #2/11:

Shavings Curl Right Off That Spoke
We said: "This Little Shave Shaves Shavings and a Spoke Takes Shape."
We meant: "This Little Shave Shaves Shavings and a Spindle Takes Shape."
Thank you to Dave Wachnicki.
 HOW CAN YOU BECOME PART OF HOCK TOOLS' PHOTO ALBUM?

SEND PHOTOS OF YOURSELF WITH YOUR HOCK TOOLS TO: linda@hocktools.com
HOCK TOOLS' PHOTO ALBUM: Greg Blake's Planes 
Greg Blake's Hand Carved Wooden Handplane 

Greg Blake's hand carved handplane made from HOCK TOOLS' Krenov-Style Wooden Plane Kit #KF150 . By the way, you may want to check out a great thread with Greg on Knots Beta, Fine Woodworking Magazine's Online Forum on January 10, 2010 . Greg is a terrific teacher!

Greg Blake's Rounded Krenov-Style Woodwn Plane

Another of Greg's Handplanes made with a HOCK TOOLS' Krenov-Style Wooden Plane Kit, #KF150

Greg Blake's Planes on a Fence 

 Five different Krenov-Style Handplanes made by Greg Blake from the Krenov-Style Wooden Plane Kit, #KF150.

 

Krenov Style Wooden Plane Kit

The One and Only HOCK TOOLS' Krenov-style Wooden Plane Kit, #KF150.  

 

WOODWORKING HANDTOOLS:
Join the Proud & Unplugged
Shaving

 

     The best surface is produced by a hand plane.  

     You can see it and you can feel it --  and there is nothing like that satin touch under your fingertip.

     No plug, no noise; a single woodworker, a well-tuned handtool, and the rhythm of work on a nice piece of wood.

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Proud & Unplugged

Since 1982 

Greetings!

 

Ron in HOCK Shop        

     FYI and with a thanks for your encouragement,  

Sharp & to The Point has increased subscriptions by 250% since January!   

     Please remember to send photos of yourself using Hock Tools and the tools you've made using HOCK TOOLS' Kits. We would love to see the progression from beginning to middle to end. Also, if you have a photo of the woodwork you've created using HOCK TOOLS, Linda especially would be thrilled to receive it. 

     For myself, I look at your photos and can sometimes feel the work in my own fingers. I hope "gratifying" is not an overused word. 

     So, once again, thank you for using Hock Tools and spending your shop time with us. It is just a great rush and inspires me to do my best, too.

 

Sincerely,                                                

Ron's Signature

HANDSELLING HANDTOOLS:  

Woodworking in America, Sept. 30 - Oct. 2

Where Independent Handtool Manufacturers Stand Proud & Unplugged.

 

CLICK ON THE PICTURE BELOW FOR A LINK TO A PHOTO ESSAY OF WIA 10 BY FATHER JOHN ABRAHAM,  

JAMEEL ABRAHAM'S (Benchcrafted) BROTHER. FANTASTIC!  

 

View from Benchcrafted's Booth, WIA 2010

Woodworking in America 2010,  

photo by Father John Abraham


IT'S NOT TOO LATE

TO REGISTER FOR  

WOODWORKING IN AMERICA! 

      

 Check out the incredible lineup planned by the good folks at  Popular Woodworking Magazine .  

 

     Class sessions are being taught by renowned woodworkers such as: Adam Cherubini, Charles Brock, Ron Herman, Peter Follansbee, Brian Boggs, Chuck Bender, Jeff Headley, Steve Hamilton, Roy Underhill, Jay van Arsdale, David Charlesworth, Christopher Schwarz and Glen D. Huey.    

 

     Hock Tools will be one manufacturer in a line-up of high quality, independent handtool manufacturers displaying wares in the marketplace.  

 

Ron at WIA 2010 by Father John Abraham    Raney Nelson of M.S. Bickford Planes

                                  

     Where else can you see so many of us in one place? It's as though you have a mini trade show within a trade show:

THAT OF THE PROUD AND UNPLUGGED!

    

    Konrad Sauer     Deneb from Lie-Nielson Toolworks

      

     Plus, you'll hear from the entire Popular Woodworking Magazine staff. With the classes, the marketplace and the extra-curricular evening events this is going to be a weekend to remember!

              Heather from Glen-Drake Tools  John Economaki of Bridge City Tools         

     It all happens in Covington, Kentucky, right across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. So, save the dates, September 30 - October 2.    

                                              
           Joel Moskowitz from Tools for Working Wood       Larry Williams of Old Street Tool, Inc.


 Definitely not to be missed and worth the trip.

  And, of course Ron and I hope to see you there!

 

                                           ----- Linda at Hock Tools

 

  

PHOTOS from Woodworking in America 2010. L-R:  1) Ron Hock/Hock Tools, photo credit: Father John Abraham; Raney Nelson/Daed Toolworks; 2) Konrad Sauer & Joe Steiner/Sauer & Steiner; Deneb Puchalski/Lie-Nielson Toolworks; 3) Joel Moskowitz/Tools for Working Wood; John Economaki/Bridge City Tool Works;  4) Heather Trosdahl/Glen-Drake Tools;Larry Williams/Old Street Tool, Inc. 

  

       

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