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The HOCK TOOLS Newsletter
#1/2013
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PHOTO ALBUM:  
Woodworker & Toolmaker Julio Alonso Diaz and his Flamingo Marking Knife 
Marking Knives
It began with a plan, some hard maple, and a
Hock Tools MK075, a simple 3/32" x 3/4" x 7" marking knife for $31.00 seen above.
Julio Alonso Cuchillo Flamingo 3
The beginnings of the the task of building a safe and handy case.
Julio Alonso Cuchillo Flamingo 7
It's so very sharp, you see.


Julio Alonso Cuchillo Flamingo 5
Julio has the answer to that--a sheath:

Julio Alonso Chuchillo Flamingo 2
Just right. Mindful of shape and grain: an artisan's touch.
Julio Alonso Cuchillo Flamingo 1
You can see the plan. Julio Alonso Cuchillo Flamingo 4 Start to finish. 
Julio Alonso Cuchillo Flamingo 6
Secreted away in this  Artisan Flamingo's wood sheathe is a Hock Tools MK075 Marking Knife!

You may know Julio for  his Flamingo Bow Saw. Check out Julio Alonso Diaz by reading his blog, El Taller Dominical, on Twitter @ArtisanFlamingo, and in a nice write up by Al Navas in 2011 on his old Sandalwoods blog.

Gracias, Julio Alonso Diaz!

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The Hock Tools
Small Block Plane
Kit
Small Block Plane Kit, Unassembled

Conveniently fits   

your apron pocket!

 

This handy Bubinga Block Plane Kit is a small version of our ever-popular Krenov-Style Wooden Plane Kit.

 

Complete with a 1" wide blade, ends up 5 3/4" long and trims down to 5" or less depending on your own needs.  

 

Hock Tools' kit designer Isaac Fisher made the one pictured here just 3 1/2" long, so you can tell why we say our Block Plane Kit assembles to fit neatly in your shop apron pocket.

  Small Block Plane by Isaac Isaac's Version of the Small Block Plane

 

Video woodworking instructor Mike Morton has a different take on how to style the Hock Tools Bubinga Block Plane.  

 

Hock Tools Block Plane Kit  

Once you watch this video it is not difficult to tell that Morton's shape differs from Isaac's. Yet, even though Morton's Block Plane is personalized for his own needs and style and differs in look from Isaac's, his video provides all the directions you need to help you assemble a beautiful kit, which you may personalized to your own style

 Bubinga Block Plane Kit #KB100--Retails for $59.50 

Replacement Blade

#BL100--Retails for $15.00

 

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Greetings!

Ron in HOCK Shop
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Hock Tools' Shop
 
January has already proven busy for us at Hock Tools and I thank you for that.

Also, since we began Sharp & to the Point in early 2011, your participation helped increase subscriptions by710%!

So, thanks again. And, please notice that we've included our first Customer Input Survey right in this issue. I hope you take time to click on it, quickly fill it out, and then get right back to this newsletter.

Our People Profile column includes an interview with Joe Novack, a woodshop teacher in Madison, Virginia, whose website, woodshopteachers.org, is a necessary idea and one that needs your support. In Linda's interview, Joe discusses the value of a woodworking curriculum in building character and problem-solving skills, as well as the challenges facing middle and high school woodshop and vocational arts programs today.

Get Woodworking Week is upon us! I  blogged about it for my January 25th entry and hope you join the fun.

And of course, please let me know if you need anything from Hock Tools.

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P E O P L E   P R O F I L E :
Introducing Joe Novack...
An Interview with Your-Not-So-Average Woodshop Teacher.

In 2
Joe Novack, A Life Misspent
Joe Novack: a life misspent? Not as far as middle and high school woodshop students are concerned!
003, at the ripe age of 52, Joe Novack said yes to teaching high school woodshop. I know...who would do such a thing? So, how did a mature and mindful newbie teacher go about developing curriculum in 2003? By making a beeline to the Internet, of course! However, Joe did not find other woodshop teachers so forthcoming about their resources and the go-to Internet was a sorry bust.

Plus, as Joe puts it, "I found that there were virtually no online woodworking teacher resources that truly addressed the needs of the students who walked into my classroom. It seemed that everything was written for the professional or hobbyist woodworker who read at a college level and actually understood and cared about grain direction."

Joe was stuck with a few learning aides he tailored out of the adult world of woodworking enthusiasts. Only so helpful when faced with teaching a classroom of kids, all of whom are at different levels of reading skill and physical ability, with a variety of public education standards to meet within a 90 minute time block. Not to mention the teenaged brain migrating through the shop and on to language arts, math, gym and the sports field, or to youthful thoughts about persons of the opposite sex. 
Clean Up 2
"...If you don't stay
 for clean-up..."

Joe Novack was on his own back then in 2003. Sad, I know. But this story ends well because Joe Novack is proactive, a fast learner, and the type of person to share resources. Along with his new job and on his own time, Joe valiantly took up the mission to provide a virtual file cabinet at woodshopteachers.org where woodworking teachers at all grade levels, all levels of experience, and all disciplines can freely access the resources within to aid their classroom instruction. -- Linda at Hock Tools

 


 
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S H O U T - O U T: 
Inspired Summer Sessions
at College of the Redwoods 
                                     
A view from Fort Bragg  
  A view from the Fort Bragg headlands not far from College of the Redwoods 
  
    Yeung Chan   Laura in Wholenss Kevin Drake Teaching   Heather T's Headshot
         Yeung Chan              Laura Mays           Kevin Drake      Heather Trosdahl

It's time to check out 2013 summer sessions at the incredible woodworking schools all over the northern hemisphere. Here in Fort Bragg, California, College of the Redwoods Fine Woodworking Program is offering a roster of practical and inspired courses including the annual Tools & Techniques and Plane Making classes plus Tool & Jig Making with Yeung Chan (woodworker par excellence and author of Classic Joints with Power Tools), Design a Chair with Laura Mays (Director of  CR's 9 month program),  Making and Using a Western Saw with Kevin Drake (of Glen-Drake Toolworks, famous for Tite-Mark(tm) Marking Gauges), and Introduction to Parquetry taught by Heather Trosdahl (author of Parquetry Tabletop and  Shop-Sawn Veneers: A Primer  in the December 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine).        
 Yeung's Knife Drawings       Laura's notebook 2    Hands with handsaw
Yeung's Knife Sketches     Laura's Chair Study           Testing Kevin's Saw 
Heather planes edge
Heather Planing Parquetry with a Hock Tools Plane Iron    
 

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